We really appreciate our whole community and support network but would like to say a special thanks to just some of the many special supporters who have given us their time, expertise, advice and donations in kind.

In no particular order:

  • Hazel Buck (My Mum): Not just Lucy’s mum but an ideas woman. Resposible for organising Rotherfield Community Fundraising tem, Undress For Uganda’s, CiF Golf Day and Christmas Fair and being an inspiration.
  • Daddy Buck: For putting up with his daughter moving back home.
  • Bryony Weaver: Support and friendship and a West London roof over Lucy’s head and producing the brilliant Buy a Brick video staring Philip Glenister.
  • Will Geddes from the ICP Group: Risk Assessment and Security Analysis.
  • Mark Williams-Thomas: wrote our Child Protection Policy.
  • Ros Coward and Miranda Glasser: filmed the inaugural “Undress”.
  • Fraser Simpson: setting up the charity and generally being a star from Day Zero.
  • Sally Braithwaite & Jo Ralling: believing in the project and signing on the dotted line.
  • Michelle Lawrence: Going out to Africa and being a brilliant wingman
  • Kirsty Stephenson for being the brains behind the ‘interactive’ part of this charity.
  • Matthew Knight for being our Head of Technology and so much more. Designing and and building our website in his spare time.
  • Nick Hall for being part of our digital team.
  • Sean Coleman for providing digital expertise and helping us write the first ever proposal.
  • Jerry Davison: for agreeing to be our Financial Director and writing a 5-year financial plan.
  • James Armson: for writing the longest, most detailed cost report anyone has ever written (in our opinion)
  • Dan Matthews: for invaluable business advice over the past last year.
  • Dominic Taylor: 65 amazing designs by students from the University of Bath Dept of Architecture.
  • Elizabeth Kilbey: our child psychology expert.
  • Andrew Bloch: our PR Expert.
  • Jeremy Cornford: our lovely treasurer.
  • Our Community Fundraising Team: Hazel Buck, Sharon Howard, Kate Kong, Jean Whitehead, Julie Kitchin & Jan Steel.
  • Ber McGrath: Our ‘woman in Uganda’.
  • Bruno Jones and Andrew Wood at Endemol for designing our brilliant logo.
  • Tim Booth at Endemol for helping us design our promo material and presentation.
  • Deborah Green at Endemol for joining our branding team with Anne McCrossan.
  • Chris Ingram & Toby Lott: Business Advice.
  • Sue Whitehead: Initial logo research, advice and inviting all her Facebook friends to join our group.
  • Adil Abrar & David McCandless: Creative Brainstorm.
  • Richard Osman, Tim Hincks, Clare Pickering & Lucas Church: the Endemol connection.
  • Polly Buck: Sister and master formatter.
  • Cherie Josephs: For contacts, advice and friendship.
  • Brian Waller: Invaluable social work advice for a year and agreeing to be our Social Work Adviser and going out to Uganda twice for us to secure VSO funding.
  • Ben Taylor: For persuading his brother to help us out.
  • Lisa Howells: For helping us every day with copy and sub editing all our documents and becoming the voice of CiF.
  • Mary Mays: Medical and set up advice.
  • Claire Oliver: HR advice.
  • Robin Stafford: Business advice.
  • Sarah Niblock: PR advice.
  • Tracy Wright: Accountancy advice.
  • Sylvia Tidy-Harris: Support and advice.
  • Jo Hardcastle: Medical advice and helping us draft our care home manager job description.
  • Sonja Hadejorn:For doing an amazing job out in Uganda running the Mukisa Foundation.
  • Dennis Owaraga: Our lovely lawyer in Uganda.
  • Norah Owaraga: Our very well connected adviser in Uganda.
  • Dr Catherine Ndekera: For all the support and help you have given us over the last 6 months.
  • Thank you to Kate Kong for putting on a UFU and raising £412
  • Simon Andrews for agreeing to join our team as our digital expert and for ideas and advice
  • Deb Khan: for organising the dinner at The Spectator offices and spending a day with Lucy practising her elevator pitch
  • Matthew D’Ancona: for hosting the digital dinner at The Spectator offices and for agreeing to become our patron
  • Augustus Coke: Contacts and experiences living in Uganda
  • Mary Dicker: Social Work advice
  • Rob Common from our charity partner HOPE for Children and becoming one of our Trustees.
  • David Senior: Invitation to Raising Funds From The Rich
  • David Gale: For the generous offer of advising us on sustainable architecture.
  • Colette Callus: For agreeing to mobilise the TV industry
  • Ian Humphries: Copy writing and a brilliant idea
  • Twinkle & Basil: Our favorite barristers
  • Barbara at Sanyu Babies Home for agreeing to let us use the footage of the babies.
  • Julien Buckley: Advice on kit and agreeing to organise our London to Paris cycle ride and cycling 2500 miles to Norway for our charity
  • Andrew & Angela Donovan: Friendship and Faith
  • John Elms: Pre School advice
  • Hannah Malone: copy writing
  • Luke Price: Editing Mukisa Video.
  • Jonny Marfleet: Architectural research
  • Uncle Post Production for providing us with a free edit – Jack Edney, Jamie Shemeld & Ed Holt
  • Ad Ahmed and Max Newson for producing and editing the City Boy VT
  • Tim Baker for kindly letting us use a track by T Minus 50 from their album Digital Scars on the City Boy VT
  • Ginger TV for lending us a tripod at the last minute
  • Janet Cooper at Linklaters for printing our business cards
  • Deborah Meaden: For invaluable business advice and making Lucy’s week
  • Greg McKinney and Robin Block at Red Sky Vision for the Spectator VT
  • The folks at Flip for lending us a pocket sized Flip Ultra video camera to record our dinner at The Spectator
  • Howard Lake for his wonderful blog about us and fabulous advice
  • Martin Shaw for giving us some fab fundraising advice
  • The incredible response from the TV industry (100 emails and counting) to volunteer their skills and expertise in Uganda
  • Jude Winstanley for posting our TV Volunteer ad on The Unit List on Facebook
  • Amelia Torode for writing nice things about us
  • James Serafinowicz from www.funnyordie.co.uk and the Dawson Bros. for their very generous offer to produce a short film for our Buy a Brick campaign
  • Graphic Designer Georgie Hewitt for her offer to design the Undress For Uganda promotional material
  • Tom Chapman from Headstream for giving us invaluable widget advice.
  • Geraldine Pollock and Jeannie Ward for their help with the UFU promotional copy
  • Jane Dicker from the International HUG Foundation for advice on setting up our Nursery
  • Rupert Miller for advice on costings and set up in Uganda
  • Jules for writing nice things about us on Jules TV
  • Sarah Eddy for starting the great tagline debate on our Facebook group
  • Ellie Howell, Kirsty Stephenson, David McCandless, Hazel Buck, Peter Mallett, Julien Buckley, Jerry Davison, Tom Harle, Julia Bellis and Malinda Kaur for suggesting brilliant taglines
  • Jo Evans for inviting us along to Rotherfield St Martins, and Marjorie and Doreen for talking to us on camera about the Internet
  • Mark James for his fabulous research on charity motorbike rides in Africa.
  • Mr Hughes and Mr Baker at Lucy’s old school Beacon Community College.
  • Jenny Whitham and Malinda Kaur for their generous offers to help fundraise in Leeds
  • Ellie Howell, Joe Bashford, Nikki Bain and Sarah Eddy for setting up a Community fundraising group in Truro
  • Katy Muncer for helping us organise the Undress For Uganda campaign and raising nearly £500 at her Christchurch UFU.
  • Hannah Jones for organising a youth focus group and for becoming our programme manager for youth initiatives
  • Lucy’s great Aunty Pat for offering to make 50 teddy bears
  • Supporter Sharon Howard for putting on a UFU and raising £224
  • Richard Halliday for running the Paris marathon for CiF and raising £668.
  • Colette Callus, Lauren Havard and Emily Lawson for setting up and prepping the TV open evening
  • Emma Pugsley for helping Lucy overcome her fear of public speaking. Still a long way to go…
  • Supporter Deborah Sargeant for putting on a UFU in Tonbridge and raising £138.
  • Hannah Jones, Sophie Phillips, Chris Chater, Matt Burton, Alex Colville and Tom Lawson for taking part in our focus group and giving us some love and time
  • Justin Scales at the Kings Arms pub in Rotherfield for making the Child’s i Foundation their charity of the year
  • Andy at Vodafone for giving us a great deal on our price plan
  • The lovely folks at BlackBerry for giving us a BlackBerry Storm.
  • Thanks to Lucy Denby for running the Paris Marathon for CiF and raising £201.38.
  • Thanks to Eric Perlberg who gave us our office chair via Twitter
  • Luke Savvas, Alastair McQuater and Andrew Norman at Buzzacott chartered accountants for their very useful and informative Tax Update Seminar
  • A big thank you to James Smith, co-founder of the School of Social Entrepreneurs, UnLtd and founder of Monkey Mosaic for his invaluable advice on being a social entrepreneur
  • Our buy a brick team – Julia Bellis (programme manager), Chris Thorpe, Patrick Sinclair, Andrew McDonough, Rory Macdonald and Ghazwan Hamdan (developers). Many of whom we met at SI Camp (thank you Katee Hui for introducing us)
  • The Golden Manor Medicine Show (Adam Adler, Jules Fuller, Ali Hawkins and Neil Webster) for donating proceeds of £362 from their gig to our charity
  • Kirsty Mitchell, Rhiain Jenkins, Ruth Newman and Kate Ashton for organising and hosting our first speed-dating event and raising £765.
  • Sarah Clark for filming the evenings shenanigans
  • Karla Gowlett for taking amazing pictures of the Speed Dating evening
  • Laurence Merrett @ The Peacock Club for providing the spectacular venue
  • Our fabulous compare for the evening Lady Jane AKA Jonathon Richardson
  • Faking It’s very own burlesque dancer Scarlett Fever and the wonderful Chrys Columbine
  • The wonderful Frank Sinatra AKA Michael Campari
  • Brent Simmonds for organising a charity golf day in Japan
  • Donna Dimitriou for donating jewellery to sell at our Undress for Uganda events
  • Liz Thomas for joining our Team to co-ordinate all our lovely Programme Manager volunteers
  • Claire Ratinon for joining our team as our volunteer co-ordinator
  • Supporter Charlie Collins for organising the CiF Charity Sky Dive
  • Supporter Lyn Onslow for putting on a UFU in ROtherfield and raising £191
  • Jenny Paine for giving her time and expertise to manage our UFU Fan Page
  • Supporter Elaine Stirling who raised £509 putting on a UFU in Bristol.
  • Supporter Sam Pinkstone for organising the CiF Charity Abseil down Guy’s Hospital
  • Katee Hui for running the Hastings Half Marathon and raising £120 for CiF
  • Kevin O’Brien for running the Bath Half Marathon and raising £100 for CiF
  • Nerys Nicholls and Lara Gordon who have helped us with the logistics in the UK and Uganda
  • Our brilliant Producer and Director Saffron Jackson who managed to upload a video every day so Supporters can join us on our journey.
  • In Uganda we’d like to thank Mercy Ndirangu and Isobel Booth-Clibbons from Families for Children
  • The wonderful team (and our partners) Home Start Uganda Charles Mugasa, Esther Tumuhairwe, Ruth Chelangat, Diana Sande, Charles Banura.
  • The wonderful brave mothers who shared with us their experiences of bringing up their children Nule, Esther, Christine, Lucy, Rose, Rosetta, Millie and Miriam.
  • Our team Norah Owaraga, Dr Catherine Ndekera, Peter Ndekera and Dennis Owaraga.
  • Dr Atai and Faith Karamagi from Mulago Hospital
  • The Rubaga Senior probation Officer Mr Ssozi.
  • John Kasule, a dedicated brilliant social worker at Nsambyia babies’ Home.
  • Rachel Parsons, Larissa Rwakasiisi and Steve Waldron at Cherish Uganda.
  • Frank Dramba and Henry Walusimbi for helping us with building costs and rental accommodation.
  • Patrick our wonderful reliable driver
  • Barbara Nankya at Sanyu Babies’ Home
  • Damilie from Waaksia Ministries
  • Immaculate Kiiza at our partners Hope For Children
  • Joel our housekeeper at Sanyu
  • Venita and Matt for IT advice and filming at Mulago Hospital and doing a recce of our rental property.
  • Martin Shearman at the British High Commission
  • Kate Wedgewood from DFID.
  • Wendy Mathews for organising a Harpenden Fundraising Team
  • Sarah McDonough for Programme Managing our Celebrity Brick Campaign
  • Dean Anderson for editing our Together to Uganda video
  • Matthew Edmonson, Kirsty Stephenson & Matthew Knight for uploading our videos from our planning trip every night.
  • Thank you to Zoe Fryer for all her work on our celebrity brick campaign
  • Emily Louth and Will Rowson for producing and Andy Garcia for editing at The Farm post production for the Building a Community video.
  • Thanks to Liz Barnes for putting on a UFU and raising £408
  • Thanks to Wendy Mathews for putting on a UFU in Harpenden and raising £2000
  • The Bangkok Lounge in Harpenden for kindly providing delicious canapes
  • In Vogue in Harpenden for kindly donating lots of wonderful clothes
  • The Childrens Society, Harpenden for kindly letting us borrow their clothes stands
  • Fantastic Raffle Prizes from Lavender and Stone Beauty, Stephanie Randall Flower Studio, Breathing Space and The Fox in Harpenden, The Bull and Wicked Lady in Wheathamstead, Magic Wardrobe, Ursuline Edwards in Sutton of Shine.
  • John Mathews Associates and Mike in Geescroft Walk, Harpenden for providing champagne and wine and additional canapes.
  • Thanks to the wonderful Harpenden Planning Committe: Linda B, Tina, Linda W and Andree and Mark and Christian for helping with the parking, Keith, Mark and Ben for doing the bar, Poppy for the photography, Hilary and Rob for providing the gazebo, Andrew for doing the raffle and Kathryn and John for babysitting.
  • Thanks to Sean Morrison, Sean Damien and Tom Robert for walking 120km from Lochinver to Tongue, climbing Suilven, Canisp, Ben Arkle, Foinaven, Ben Hope and Ben Loyal and raising £690.
  • Thanks to Charlie Collins, George Collins, Caroline Webb and Pete Haskell for jumping 12,000 ft out of a plane to raise money for CiF.
  • Thanks to Bryony Weaver for filming the sky dive and our wonderful mascot Archie Adler-Weaver
  • We salute 10-year old Tate who cut all his locks off for our charity and raised £325.35.
  • Thanks to Nathan Bentley for hosting our website.
  • Thanks for Big Brother team for donating an exclusive behind the scenes tour around the BB House for an auction prize.
  • Thanks to Lewis Day for donating a chauffeur driven Mercedes to and from the Big Brother House.
  • Thanks to Paul Barham for competing in the IronMan competition and raising £655 in sponsorship for Child’s i Foundation
  • Thanks to Anne McCrossan for all her help and advice on our business plan and joining our Board of Trustees.
  • Thanks to Marley an the brilliant team at Crow TV for their editing suite and lovely editors.
  • A big thanks to the team behind the Buy a Brick video: Philip Glenister, Bryony Weaver, Robin Weaver, Jules Fuller, Richard Osman, Sam Key, Chris Roots, Crow TV and Metropalis Recording Studios.
  • Thank you to Endemol UK Productions for making us their Charity of the Year
  • The wonderful Kat Brashaw for agreeing to PM our digital networks and help us with our Google adwords.
  • Jane Shaw, Lianne Pegrum, Andy Rowe, Tom Blakeson for organising the Endemol Quiz in aid of Child’s i Foundation and raising £1075.
  • Clare Aitken for her brilliant web copy and offering her time and love.
  • Thanks to Mark Phillips at Blue Frog for fundraising research – invaluable advice and much appreciated.
  • Thanks to Alison and Alan Cowan – we look forward to seeing you again in Uganda and enjoy reading your blog http://thecowansinkampala.blogspot.com/
  • Welcome Perle Catchpole who is joining our fundraising team
  • Wonderful advice from Trish Pegorer and Julie Routledge at AFADU
  • Thanks to Liz Thomas and the ladies of Tidebrook for taking part in a CIF ladies tennis tournament and raising £530.
  • Thanks to Emily Hall for writing our brilliant PR & comms plan.
  • Well done to our Together To Uganda dream team: Hannah Jones, Matt Burton. Sophie Phillips, Tom Lawson, Leigh Colbran, Luke Pinkstone, Zoe Fryer and Andy Garcia.
  • We love Alida & Rob Roy, Poppy, Amber, Freya, Kathryn & John and the lovely ladies of Suffolk who put on a UFU and raised £727.
  • Thanks to Liz Thomas and Phyllida and Glenn Earle for organsing the mixed doubles tennis tournament and raising over £800.
  • Thanks to the brave souls and superheroes who abseiled 450ft down Guys Tower and rasied over £4000: Flo Toolan, Emma Southam, Kirsty Mitchell, Luke Pinkstone, Ruth Newman, Ashley Martin, Michael Dean, Andy Cane, Catherine Blithe, Gemma Miller-Cook, Anne Boden, Peter Mallett, Nikki Bain, Rachel Matthews, Louise Dew, Hannah Jones and Gabi Kavanagh.
  • The abseiling day could not have gone ahead without the A Team organising the day, including the brilliant team from Over The Edge, Sam Pinkstone for organsing the day and the TV dream team of Kirsty Mitchell and Ruth Newman
  • Fab helmet cam footage thanks to Nick Bonner.
  • Brilliant photos and coverage of the day thanks to Ewa Holander, Jessica Thompson and Luke Pinkstone.
  • Thanks to Rotherfield Cricket Club who donated their cricket subs to CiF on Chairman’s day.
  • Thanks to Kirsty Mitchell, Sara Stephens, Ruth Newman and Lisa Howells for organising the second speed dating night and raising over £600
  • Thanks to Anna Withers AKA Trixie Bell for performing balesque on the night.
  • Respect to Chris Thorpe who did the most truly interactive fundraising initiative yet and wrote a lovely blog post about it for Just Giving.
  • Thanks to Alissa Barlow @missalissab for the help and advice on High Value Donors
  • Thanks to Clare O’Dowd for her advice on fundraising
  • Thanks to our fundraising committee: Hazel Buck, Karin Taylor, Lara Gordon, Faridah Nabaale , Lucy Sanderson, Emma Pound, Alissa Barlow, Claire O’Dowd, Liz Thomas, Anne McCrossan, Perle Laouenan-Catchpole, Sara Stephens, Kat Brashaw and Kirsty Stephenson.
  • Thanks to Lara Gordon for agreeing to become our Meet Up Programme Manager
  • Thanks to Nerys Nichols who is organising our team in the Brighton Marathon
  • Justin & Kim Scales, Becky Syms and Julia Townshend for organising Rotherfest music festival and raising £2230.
  • Charlotte Delmonte for helping us design the Together to Uganda poster.
  • Thanks to the fabulous Christine Hutton, a Chief Financial Officer for helping with our business plan, writing our 2 year financial plan and helping us with our presentation to High Value Donors.
  • Thanks to Clare Aitkin, Claire O’Dowd, Anne McCrossan, Alissa Barlow, Kirsty Stephenson, Matthew Knight and Lisa Howells for writing our web copy.
  • Thanks to Tracey Burt for editing our speed dating promo
  • Thanks to Debbie Rich for giving us time and helping us out with our to do list to go out to Uganda
  • Deb Khan @debkhan for all her help with Lucy’s (winning!) pitch for the Vodafone World of Difference
  • Elisabeth and Paul Choudhery for help and advice
  • Thanks to Gloria Charles @gl0ria from Kids First Trust for support and advice
  • Jackie Mendoza at Cause Perfect for fundraising advice
  • Thanks to Steve Bridger @stevebridger for designing our Twibbon
  • Pamela Steel for writing a 2 page article on Katie Thom’s UFU in Huntsville, Canada
  • Thanks to Jessica Thompson for organsing the Sussex Meet Up.
  • Jodie Daly for running in the Sony Ericsson Run to the Beat Half Marathon
  • Karin Taylor for joining our team to oversee the sports fundraising challenges.
  • Lucy Phillips for helping us write our Trust applications
  • Luke Savvas for agreeing to join or Board of Trustees
  • Mary Driscoll and Rob Stephenson from Maven Partners who have helped us find a Chief Financial Officer. Visit them at www.mavenpartners.co.uk/
  • Mike Baldwin @mikey3982 for being a brilliant community builder
  • Thanks to Kay Jones for organising a supper evening and Mark Eurich for generously donating a live art installation and raising nearly £1000.
  • Thanks to Anne Catliff for taking part in the 10k run in the south downs.
  • We couldn’t do without Craig Linton @frdetective’s love and support. Thanks for invaluable advice on our Ning Group and writing lovely blog posts about us.
  • Thanks to Audrey Phongsathorn for sharing all her incredible trust fund research.
  • Thanks to the Golden Fleece pub in Bank for giving us a great venue for our Meet Up
  • Respect goes to Chris Purchase who filmed our Meet up at Bank.
  • A special thanks to The Amateurs Trust who gave us £10,000.
  • Huge congrats goes out to Simon Crewsdon, Anna Fiske, Bridget Walker, Perle Laouenan-Catchpole, Kenny Monaghan and Conor Cusack who raised over £2500 completing a sponsored bike ride for our charity.
  • Thanks to Steve DeBurca who has given us a lot of his time reviewing our business and financial plans over the past 18 months.
  • Huge thanks to the Vodafone Foundation for sponsoring Lucy for a year and paying £20,000 in expenses.
  • Thanks to Endemol UK, for sponsoring our launch party.
  • Our incredibly talented and generous Digital Team, for building our beautiful virtual wall: Kirsty Stephenson, Matthew Knight, Julia Bellis, Patrick Sinclair, Chris Thorpe, Ronan Rafferty, Rory MacDonald and Ghaz Hamdan.
  • Shout out goes to the wonderful Graphics Department at Endemol, for designing our graphics and promotional material: Bruno Jones, Tim Booth, Andrew Wood and Deborah Green.
  • Dave Edwards and Rob Jenkins from Know, for designing our super-cute invitations. Visit them at www.knowmoreabout.us
  • Thanks to Liz Thomas and Perle for helping to organise our Launch Party
  • Sophie Danby and Caroline Hamilton at Wild Thyme, for the delicious canapés. Visit them at www.wildthyme.biz.
  • Our wonderful support team this evening: Hazel Buck, Karin Taylor, Lisa Howells, Lara Gordon, Faridah Nabbaale, Sara Stephens, Claire O’Dowd, Emma Pound, Luke Pinkstone, Sharon Howard, Cherie Josephs, Kirsty Mitchell, Michelle Lawrence, Alissa Barlow, Emma Blake, Mani Mangra, Claire Ratinon, Kat Brashaw and Simon Crewdson.
  • Thanks to Chris Purchase for filming the evening and Errol Yucel for taking photos of the evening.
  • Thanks to Derek Onslow at Richmond Wine Agencies for generously donating the wine at cost price and donating a magnum of champagne.
  • Entwistle Group for kindly printing out brochure. Visit them a www.entwistlegroup.co.uk
  • Thanks to Kate Boenigk at Proud Galleries for a brilliant venue and generously supplying the beer!
  • Thanks to Bernard at Systems Etc. for supplying all of our AV equipment. Visit them at www.systemsetc.com
  • Thanks to Mike Baldwin and Erika Browning at Novartis for supplying us with items on our wish list for Uganda.
  • Thanks to our Community for helping us with our search for a CFO to take out to Uganda: Lucas Church, Annabel Jones and Richard Johnson at Endemol UK, our friends in Triiibes Bernie Jiwa, Didier Daglinckx and Dr Mani Sivasubramanian, James Balfour, Kimberley MacKenzie and Ken Burnett from SOFII, Hanah Burgess, Simon Frank and Rachel Beer at Beautiful World, Lydia Ruffles at PWC and our lovely friends on Twitter for tweeting about our mission: @Jaggeree, @Perle111, @kevbaughen, @TeamLondonBdg, @rachelbeer, @KimberleyCanada, @VikkiHelps, @svanna, @SteveHeyes, @oceanician, @MarkyPhillips, @SylviaTidyHarri, @JDevenney, @stewarttownsend, @mikey3982, @ulrike_reinhard, @leebryant, @dominiccampbell, @davidcushman, @gl0ria, @clara_bow, @samclo, @benrmatthews, @slboval, @stevebridger @babyexpat, @Lady_Lucan @sallyhems @Monsty @matthewoldfield @AmandaSanter @salleeann @missalissab @drmani
  • Thanks to Christine Hutton for not only providing pro bono expertise for 6 months but also agreeing to come out to Uganda as our CFO to set the project up.
  • Thanks To Richard Sved for advice on governance and fundraising (and @jaggeree for the introduction)
  • Thanks to Lauren Garvey for celebrity booking expertise and love.
  • Thanks for a lovely session (near the pouffe) at Beautiful World with Rachel Beer and Simon Frank.
  • Love and great introductions from Tamara Abood at Channel 4
  • Thanks to the great voice over talent that is David Wartnaby for donating his wage to our charity (he introduces The Simpsons on Sky One!)
  • Thank you to Phyllida and Glenn Earle for advice and support setting the project up.
  • Neil Kerfoot for getting in touch and giving us invaluable advice on volunteer programmes and Health & Safety. Visit his project www.villagebyvillage.org.uk/
  • Thanks to a Ugandan / UK collaboration from Sara Stephens and Sheila Tumwine drafting our tenancy agreement in Uganda.
  • Thanks to Charles Ryland and Aidan Kong for reviewing our Business and Financial Plan and Bruno Jones at Endemol Graphics for formatting  to present to high value donors.
  • We love Jacqui Von Bommel and the Christchurch Fundraising brigade – Melinda, Katy, Claire, Rachel, Trinity, Julie, Mette, Tanya, Sam for organising a kids nearly new sale and raising over £700!
  • Thanks to John Walbank at Blue Frog for advice on pitch to high value donors.
  • Thanks to the Big Brother Team for donating another VIP access all areas tour of the Celebrity Big Brother House and Monica Pound from Lewis Day for kindly donating a chauffeur driven car.
  • Lots of respect goes to Lara Gordon for project managing the London Bridge UFU and Claire O’Dowd, Wendy White, Kat Brashaw, Karin Taylor, Julia Bellis, Hazel Buck, Simon Crewdson, Sam Pinkstone and Sara Stephens for being  the London Bridge UFU dream team.
  • Thanks to Anissa Mangan for donating amazing Moschino goodies.
  • Thanks to Top Notch Health Club London Bridge  for donating 6 month membership in our silent auction – www.topnotchhealthclubs.com
  • Thanks to The Salon  for donating two raffle prizes  http://www.thesalon.uk.net
  • Thanks to Fitness First London Bridge for donating three membership passes http://www.fitnessfirst.co.uk
  • Thanks to The Fish Restaurant for donating a 3 course meal for 2 http://www.ballsbrothers.co.uk/hays/index.htm
  • Thanks to Magpie Photographic for desiging our Child’s i Poster and donating a portrait session as a raffle prize http://www.magpiephotographic.com/
  • Thanks to Johnny for DJ’ing at the UFU
  • Thanks for James at Arch 897 for donating the brilliant venue for our grand UFU http://www.arch897.com/blog/
  • Thanks to Chris Bayliss at Elastic Productions for printing our flyers for the London Bridge UFU http://www.elastic-productions.com
  • Thanks to Pussy Willow for donating a beautiful dress for the London Bridge UFU http://www.pwillow.com/
  • Thanks to Fine Foods in London Bridge for donating a gorgeous Italian foods hamper for our UFU
  • Thanks to Arch Climbing wall for donating a climbing session for 2 for UFU www.archclimbingwall.com
  • Thanks to Our workshop  for designing our invite for the London Bridge UFU http://www.ourworkshop.co.uk/
  • Thanks to Zoe Cook for designing our London Bridge Undress for Uganda Flyer http://www.zoecook.com/
  • We appreciate the support from Kirsty Hoyle and Sally Britton from Snap Childcare for including us in their newsletter  http://www.snapchildcare.co.uk/snapnews.HTML
  • Thanks to Chris Chaplin for her ongoing support to our charity – comments, standing order, jewellery for our UFU and joining our Community
  • Gratitude goes to Richard Osman for ongoing support for the project ‘to the end’
  • Well done to Beatrice Thompson from Sevenoaks who put on our first Child’s i Foundation coffee morning and raised £200.
  • Thanks to the lovely Ben Allen for giving us an editing masterclass.
  • Jessica Thompson and Emma Blake for holding an Ice Party in Tunbridge Wells raising £453.20.
  • Kimberley Prior who went out in a cheerleaders outfit at the Lancaster University Christmas Fair armed with a bucket raising £30.
  • Endemol UK for raising a massive £5000 at the “Endemol’s Got Talent” Christmas Party, organised by Bryony Weaver and Nic McNeilis.
  • Our tech team, Kirsty Stephenson, Mathew Knight, Patrick Sinclair, Ronan Rafferty and Ghazwan Hamden for making our brick wall a bit more festive.
  • Lyn Onslow and Donna for organising an Autumn walk in Ashdown Forest raising £200.
  • Patricia Mordey, the 11 adults and 2 children who went carol singing in Kintyre, Scotland.
  • Thank you to Cathy Wickens who generously donated an otoscope.
  • Thank you to the Golden Fleece for providing a free buffet for the January Meetup
  • Thanks to Lucy’s Great Aunty Jo and her army of helpers who put on an incredible performance of ‘Tea , Tunes and Talent’ and raised a whopping £1185. Thanks to Penny and Steven James, Janet and John Sharples, Sue and David Homewood, Jane and Dave Johnstone, Christine and Malcolm Terry, Carol and Brian Lattimer, Gail and Andy Clarkson, Sally and Tony Howell, Gwen and David Butcher, Susan Wells, Elaine Brooks, Di Crisp, Mel Byford, Oliver Hulme, Sue Harrison, Dan Gillander, Jan Batchelor, Jean Harding, John Hawkins, Colleen Thirkell, Ann and Paul Matthews, Barbara Richards Paul Rhodes and Helen Fish
  • Thanks to Cherie Jospephs, Sarah Pinder, Rachelle Headland, Jo Cassidy, Emma Clarkson, Sue Joel, Caroline Jones and Fiona Beauchamp for donating lots of nearly new baby clothes.
  • Thanks to Kat Brashaw and her wonderful Mum who bought nearly every item of our wishlist (including tongue depressors!) We can’t wait to see you out here in March Kat and thanks for your offer of bringing over bedsheets!
  • Thanks to Supporter Kevin O’Brien who is pulling out all the stop to organise Child’i Klimb – a trek up Mount Kilimanjaro. If this takes your fancy joing our Climb Kili Facebook Group.
  • Thank you to the Bay Stomers Cheerleaders, Kimberley Pryor, Ed Burrows, Kitty, Lauren and Faye for putting together an amazing video of support for Child’s i and thank you to David Dickinson for giving us a hearty cheerleader shout out! Watch there amazing video of support here: Bay Stormers Cheerleaders support the ChildsiFoundation
  • Thanks to Supporter Brent Simmonds in Japan who has organised the Sugiyama Women’s University Recipe book in Japan in aid of Child’s i. Take a look at their pictures
  • Thank you to Loretta D’Souza (@LadsoUZ) for donating a copy of her new book Sonny the Sea Tractor for the Sussex Nearly New Sale.
  • A huge thank you to the Ndere Centre in Kampala for giving us their facilities for free for our training week. Go pay them a visit at http://www.ndere.com
  • Thanks to our volunteers in Uganda who gave us a lot of love and a week of their lives to train to be ‘Ba Nnakyewa’ (Lugandan for volunteers)  for our charity and provide support for young mothers: Charles Matovu, Stephen Ssentongo, Namugenyi Lucy, Sande Diana, Nakaweesi Oivia, Ben Charles Luyima, Nambozo Fiona, Arot Esther, Esther Tumuhairwe, Katonya Arnold, Baguma Frank, Nankunda Hope, Yamangusho Stella, Shida Lydia, Nansove Gorret Nanah, Nakafeero Angellah and Jachiel John.
  • Thank you to the trainers: Charles Mugasa, Victoria Senkubuge, Mary Mayes, Oswald Rwengabo Kiboneka, Winfred Luutu, Megan Howard and Judith Tusingize.
  • Thank you to supporter Charlotte Delmonte for designing our certificates.
  • Thanks to Dr Atia and Faith Karamagi at Mulago hospital for support and advice.
  • Thanks to Jovia Tukwasibwe at Oasis Uganda for advice on child protection and Alice Bakunda for advice on counselling.