Newsletter 02 - November 2004
Dear All
After a somewhat stagnant summer that can partially be blamed
on nice beaches and cheap SE Asian beer but was mostly down to
our being scattered all over the place ( and maybe a hint of laziness
somewhere amongst that too ) The One Percent Scheme is back on
track and ready to roll.
WEBSITE
The much hyped 'great website' that we have been promising people
for quite a while is finished and does look pretty decent. A great
deal of effort went into it, especially given the fact that Roderick
(His official title) and I are not the most technologically gifted
kids on the block. The problem has been getting everything uploaded
onto our domain name www.onepercentscheme.com due to our computer
guy going AWOL. We eventually gave him up m.i.a. and got someone
else on the case (at no expense to the scheme) so the pages will
be posted on our new dot org site soon.
Just for now here is the temporary link so you can have a peruse
and see what you think, http://www.mycgiserver.com/~onepercent/
Send us some feedback, as now would be a good time to make any
changes – before we officially launch on the dot org site.
Jimi...you can just text me with the abuse to save you the trouble
of mailing it eh.
2ND QUARTER DONATION – OVER £200
Thank you to those who donated money for the 2nd quarter donation
– we donated a total of just over £200 - split equally
between our three causes and gratefully received by each.
The RDT sent us some of their photographs taken
on their last visit to oversee the operation of the disabled persons
association over there so it's nice to see where our funds are
going – some of these are posted on the website.
PEPAIDS (the UK fundraising bit) has provided
support for SAPEP (the operation in Zambia) to start its own fundraising.
Four new donors have been found, including the Dutch government.
The extra funding has allowed it to almost double the number of
people on the ground and reach every community with the two districts
SAPEP operates.
More info on all 3 organisations is on the website.
NEXT DONATION
We have had to scrap the 3rd quarter donation due to our lack
of summer activity – which brings us to our main problem
at the moment. With everyone currently donating on a one off basis
when we stop chasing people up for money, everything stops. This
obviously isn’t sustainable and we need to start using standing
orders for those of you with regular income. Our next date is
Dec 31st so if you could all let us know what you're up too, whether
and to what extent you are up for being involved that would be
great.
Quite a few of us are involved in work of some sort or another
by now so this is when the scheme can really begin to lift off
and hopefully get us over 1000 pounds/year target that will enable
us to officially register ourselves as a charity. Some of us are
going to give a certain amount to cover any work we did in the
summer so if you want excellent, however we understand that you
didn't receive anything from us during that time so if you want
to start from this last quarter thats no problem. We’ll
try and contact you all individually but it really would be much
better if we could hear back from you first. Just a brief mail
letting us know what your situation is would be great.
Hope all is well with everyone, working, studying or skanking off the state and parents (Bigballs, hope returning to the breast hasn't been too rough) and those of us who have finally had to take the plunge into some career or another are not feeling too hard done by. We look forward to hearing back from you in the near future.
Marcus, Roderick and Johnson for THE ONE PERCENT SCHEME