A documentary is being made about the work we are doing to raise funds for a permanent school building for Ceesay Nursery School. After a week of filming at the school in Serrekunda, The Gambia, accompanied by our chair Diane Fisher, charitable production team Good causes, good karma have released the trailer for the film.Continue reading “Ceesay Nursery School – The Documentary”
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Knitting Group Fundraiser for Ceesay School
A knitting group at Kings Cross Brunswick Neighbourhood Association held a fundraising event for Ceesay Nursery School right before Easter. They baked delicious cakes, encouraged all the community centre members to bring in items to donate to the tombola and made a beautiful display of all their hand-knitted items, to sell in aid of ourContinue reading “Knitting Group Fundraiser for Ceesay School”
Rock 4 Charity Gig Raises £1,000 for Ceesay School
Earlier this month (Friday 4th March) Rock 4 Charity’s Darren Sims, aka Daz, performed live at the Battersea Barge venue in south London, raising over £1,000 for our project to build Ceesay School in the Gambia a permanent building. Battersea Barge, London’s popular floating venue for music, comedy and cabaret entertainment, played host to Daz,Continue reading “Rock 4 Charity Gig Raises £1,000 for Ceesay School”
Charity Concert Organised for School Building Project
This Friday (4 March) we are hosting a charity rock gig at the Battersea Barge in London to raise funds for our project to build a permanent school building for Ceesay Nursery School. Rock musician Darren Sims, aka Daz, and his friends will be playing rock classics from the likes of Queen, the Beatles, theContinue reading “Charity Concert Organised for School Building Project”
2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,100 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 18 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see theContinue reading “2015 in review”
Marathon Runner Contributes Money Raised To Ceesay School
Friend of the school Ben Morris ran the Isle of Wight Marathon last month, raising over £1,000 in the process, which he has kindly donated to our Ceesay Nursery School building project. “I’m not a super keen runner so it takes something special to motivate me to get out there,” Ben told us. “I’ve beenContinue reading “Marathon Runner Contributes Money Raised To Ceesay School”
Ceesay Nursery School AGM
The London-based team of fundraisers for Ceesay School held their 3rd Annual General Meeting last month, fuelled by some home-cooked Gambian food – a delicious national dish called domoda, made from chicken, carrots, pumpkin, chilli and peanut butter sauce. The past year was reviewed, and the coming year planned for. These were the main points ofContinue reading “Ceesay Nursery School AGM”
Running 10K for Ceesay Nursery School
Dawn Dobson, the treasurer for Ceesay Nursery School, is taking part in the Nike Women’s 10km race in London’s Victoria Park on Sunday 21st June. She is aiming to raise money to go towards the £20,000 needed for our project to build a modern, safe, well-equipped nursery school for the children at Ceesay Nursery School.Continue reading “Running 10K for Ceesay Nursery School”
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