Child's i Foundation - we make families not orphans

In no particular order:

• Hazel Buck (My Mum): Not just Lucy’s mum but an ideas woman. Responsible for organising Rotherfield Community Fundraising team, Undress For Uganda clothes swapping parties, golf days 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 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 who has been with us since day one processing payroll, all our donations and gift aid claims – one of our unsung heroes.
• 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 for the Vodafone World of Difference pitch (that she won – thanks to Debs)
• 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
• 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 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
• 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.
• Damilie from Waaksia Ministries
• Immaculate Kiiza at 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 Children’s 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 and 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 adwards.
• 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 & communications 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 organising the mixed doubles tennis tournament and raising over £800.
• Thanks to the brave souls and superheroes who abseiled 450ft down Guys Tower and raised 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 organising 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 burlesque 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, 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 Choudhury 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 organising the Sussex Meet Up.
• Jodie Daly for running in the Sony Ericsson Run to the Beat Half Marathon
• 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.
• Huge thanks to Steve DeBurca who has since the beginning given us guidance and support reviewing our business and financial plans and coming out to Uganda and working around the clock to help us write our budget.
• 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 Tribes 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 designing 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.
• Thank you to Liz Hugen-Tober and Karin Taylor for their enduring support and coming out to Uganda for the official opening of our Home.
• 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 Atai 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.
• Thank you to Claire Ratinon for coming out to Uganda to help us set up our project and produce some lovely VT’s documenting the set up of our charity out in Uganda.
• Thank you to Mary Mayes for coming out to Uganda to volunteer for 3 weeks to help us run our Volunteer Training Course.
• Kitty Curran for designing a fantastic illustration of mother and child for our branding.
• Thanks to Kim and Kate for running the Lincon 10km run and raising £202.
• Thank you to Alan Cowan for his help interviewing the final candidates for our social work position.
• Huge thank you to Elaine Mc Kinney who quit smoking cigarettes and encouraged all her friends on Facebook to sponsor her in aid of Child’s i
• Big thank you to Kat Brashaw and Chris Rutherford for raising the money on a Just Giving Page and a Cup Cake baking masterclass and coming out to our project for a week and renovating and equipping our offices. Not to mention donating a surge protector, 2 ruck sacks, a hard drive, an inkjet printer and cartridge. Take a look at the video of their time here:
• Thank you to Mary Mayes for donating towels, sheets, surge protectors, candles and lighters.
• Thanks to Josephine Kleinjan and  Jane Barton for donating children’s toys.
• Thanks to Penny & Eric Brashaw for donating cot sheets, baby bibs, knitted blankets, hand knitted baby sweaters and hats
• Thanks to Sara Szoleck for donating vaseline, soap, baby wipes, teats, bottles, stationary and sudocrem
• Linda & Stuart Rutherford for donating paint brushes, rollers, paint trays and a decorating set.
• Thanks to Endemol UK for donating a lap top and lots of stationary for our office set up.
• Thanks to Lorna & Derek Gunn for donating a padlock and painting equipment.
• Thanks to Hush for donating 77 pairs of super cute pajama bottoms for our babies and a baby grow.
• Thanks to Paul Lakin and David Buhagiar for donating laptops.
• Thank you to Paul and Liz Choudhury for donating latex gloves, aprons, ambu bags, hand sanitiser containers and gel and nappies and coming out to Uganda to volunteer their incredible nursing and doctor skills.
• Thank you to Nicky Packman for donating 14 tubes of aloe vera nappy rash cream.
• Thank you to Westbourne Pharmacy Luton for donating wipes, cotton wool, teats, dummies, baby bottles, trainer mugs, dropper bottles. spoons, Nurofen and Calpol
• Thank you to Sino Africa for donating torches.
• Thanks to Cecile and Ivan Gadd for donating teddy bears and stationary.
• Thank you to Lawsons pharmacy in Luton for donating medicine measures and plastic spoons.
• Thank you to Kate Prince for donating  transfers to decorate our baby bedrooms including the jungle safari makeover kit, the under the sea adventure kit, the farm kit and the rainforest makeover kit.
• Thank you to Carol Bankusha, Senior Probation Officer for Kampala City Council for inspecting our home, writing a report and suggesting we call our home ‘Malaika Babies Home’
• Thank you to John Lule, our health inspector who wrote a report to allow us to open our home.
• Thank you to Sharon Henley for joining our team for a couple of months to help us with our finance and operations.
• Thank you to the BBQ Lounge in Centenary Park, Kampala for giving us their bar for free to hold our Meet Up in Kampala.
• Thanks to Rich Robinson and Shrina Lakhani at EMI Publishing and Blur for kindly giving us the rights to use ‘Coffee & TV’ soundtrack on our Baby Shower video.
• Thank you to our incredible Ball Committee – Liz Hugen-Tobler, Gilly Enock, Ann Catliff, Perle Catchpole and Karin Taylor for organising our inaugural ball at the Kensington Roof Gardens.
• Thanks to Keren Lovett, Laura Phillips and Mary Brew at British Airways for Missionary tickets and extra baggage.
• Thanks to Moyez Jiwa for putting an article in the Australian Medical Journal about our search for a Care Home Manager
• Thanks to Nerys Nicholls for doing an awesome job of doing all the preparation work  for the Brighton Marathon team.
• Thanks to Duncan Groves, Ben Hanley, Jessica Thompson, Lauren Havard, James Barnett and Mathew Wood for running in the Brighton Marathon and raising an amazing £3441!
• Thanks to Matthew Edmondson for being the official Child’s i banner boy at the Brighton Marathon.
• Thanks to Sam Hampson for running the Brighton Marathon mini mile and raising £45.
• Thanks to Peter Hackett for taking on the London Marathon and raising £1,100.
• Thanks to Heather Foster for running the Sheffield Half Marathon and raised £220.
• Thanks to the London to Paris Cyclists ; Charles & Jane Ryland, Julia Parish, Karin & Steve Taylor for taking on the challenge and raising an incredible £11,064 in the process!
• Thanks to formidable ball committee comprising of Liz Thomas, Karin Taylor, Gilly Enock and Anne Catliff for organising an amazingly successful Ball at the Kensington Roof Gardens.
• Thanks to all the volunteers and table hosts who helped out on the night, the night could not have run so successfully without you all: Perle  Laouenan-Catchpole, Lisa Howells Claire Ratinon, Sara Stephens, Lara Gordon, Kat Brashaw, Kevin O’Brien, Emma Blake, Alissa Barlow, Jo Sinclair, Claire O’Dowd, Ian Warren, Sally McClean, Will Byles, Izi Thomas, Ruth Newman, Emily Taylor, Amanda Sefton, Rosie Kong, Sophie Kingham and Rachel Mahon.
• Thanks to Eoghan Hanrahan of Magpie Photographic who took photos of the May Ball.
• Thanks to Alex Proud of Proud Galleries for being our auctioneer.
• Thanks to Robert Common for being a wonderful compere at our Ball.
• Thanks to James Barnett for donating a weeks yacht charter for our auction which raised a mind blowing £17,500 on the night.
• Thanks to Colin Long for producing and printing our invitations and programs.
• Thanks to Joanne for donating two pilates prizes for our silent auction.
• Thanks to Richard Osman for donating a sought after Top Gear prize for our main auction.
• Thanks to Jenny Ellis for donating the use of their Val d’Isere apartment for our main auction.
• Thanks to Nicola and Gyr King for donating a beautiful painting and the use of their house in Corfu for our main auction prizes.
• Thanks to Kevin Bresnahan for donating Rugby tickets to England v New Zeland.
• Thanks to Susie Worley for donating a limited edition Rolf Harris print to our silent auction.
• Thanks to Sarah Raven for donating a personal tour of her garden plus lunch for 6 guests for our main auction.
• Thanks to John Coldman and Mike Reis for donating a firle shoot for our silent auction.
• Thanks to Nick Thomas for donating a stunning pearl necklace to our main auction.
• Thanks to Glenn and Phyllida for donating four prime seats to the Community Shield.
• Thanks to Kim McClelland and Alison Burton for bringing two suitcases of clothes and toys to Malaika babies home.
• Thanks to Kimberley, Sumeet, Matt, Ian, Sajela, Emma Bayley, Janet, Candice, Lowell, Darren, Nicky, Claire, Rebecca, Kate, Sandi, Jemma, Andrew, Laura, Phillipa and Nerys who took on a 450ft building and raised £4451 in the process.
• Special thanks to Emma Crosby for doing our abseil and giving us a lovely endorsement before scaling down the 450ft building!
• Thanks to Sam Pinkstone for organising another very successful abseil.
• Thanks to Kiehls of Covent Garden for allowing us to do a collection in their store.
• Thanks to Hazel Buck, Laura Nash, Barbara Seymour and Emma Rowley for giving up their Saturday afternoon to do the collection in Kiehls.
• Thanks to Kevin O’Brien for leading, organising, motivating and providing humour at every turn to the team of 10 climbing Kilimanajaro and also to the Child’s i team!
• Thanks to ‘Team Klimb’ Kevin O’Brien, Jodie Daly, Leanne Troop, Liam Stewart, Rebecca Frechette, Shelby Soares, Tanya Severn, Scott James Chandler, Dave Kennedy and Dany Parent for taking on the mighty Mount Kilimanjaro and raising an incredible £10826.27.
• It was lovely to welcome Kevin O’Brien, Leanne Troop, Liam Stewart, Rebecca Frachette, Shelby Soares and Dany Parent to our home after the Klimb to see the difference their money is making.
• Thanks to Chris Thorpe for building the Child’s i Klimb interactive website
• Thanks to Kirsty and Gwilym for putting together our fabulous monthly newsletter.
• Thanks to Anne McCrossan for using us a casestudy in her inspiring presentation at TED.
• Thanks to Kirsty for writing a wonderful blog about us for Because it’s good.
• Thanks to City Scape for providing us with free desk space for our London based staff member!
• Thanks to Kitty Bennett for her donation which allowed us to go out and purchase a brand new toy for our two eldest boys!
• Thanks to Ian Warren for spending three months at Malaika Babies home and producing awesome video updates such as: The Baby Shower promo and the making of.
• Thanks to Katie Cochrane our incredible Media Volunteer who gave 3 months of her life to make the most amazing videos of our journey (and a lovely video for the VSO too) and helping us with our Joey campaign videos.
• Thanks to the formidable Bec Nielson who volunteered 3 months of her life to sort out our volunteer scheme, take over the office manager role and find a new office Manager whilst doing a sock drive and collecting 1000 pairs of socks for our little bubbas – wonder woman and then going back to Oz and selling paper necklaces and co-ordinating our Baby Shower. Her commitment never ends.
• Kelly Brown and her friends for a truckload of beautiful baby clothes
• Emma Hayes & Becky Chere for their truly epic fundraising cycle ride from John O’Groats to Lands End and raising
• Thanks to Emma Rowley who came over and designed our ‘Learning by Play’ curriculum and teaching our carers to play with our children.
• All of the participants in the second Mixed Doubles Tennis Championships for 2010, raising almost £1000
• Thanks to Laura Nash for coming over to our Babies Home for a couple of weeks and helping us care for our children and persuading her company Poker Stars to donate money to us.
• Thanks to Antonia Malchik for her donation of baby clothes, bottles, toys, books and bibs.
• Thanks to Avril and Terry Price for collecting and donating loads of baby clothes and toys for our lovely babies.
• Thanks to Martha Parsons for donating baby clothes, toys, a baby walker, a gym and a projector.
• Thanks to Lara Gordon for ongoing support and coming to see her cot and her lovely Mum Jeannie who came to see her table and chairs!
• Thanks to Kaye, Allen Lawford, Aoife, Robin Weaver, Kerri James, Alison Burton and Rachael Godfrey for donating baby clothes.
• Thanks to Lucy Caslon for donating baby shoes and paying for a months supply of milk formula.
• Thanks to Fiona Blackmore for knitting us wonderful dolls and jumpers to keep our babies warm.
• Thanks to Jo Hardcastle for coming out to Uganda to help us set up Malaika Babies Home and bringing with her suitcases of  bibs, baby clothes, bottles, brushes, nappies, spoons, baby supplies and wall stickers.
• Thanks to Kirsty Mitchell for volunteering her incredible TV skills to us for 3 months and producing some amazing videos as well as donating hair clippers, clothes, books, toys and baby supplies.
• Thanks to Liam, Kirsten, Rachel, Izi, Emily, Harriet, Katie and Dorthe who did a marvellous job painting Malaika House
• Thanks to Chloe Samwell-Smith for donating baby blankets and mosquito nets.
• Thanks to Charlotte Kizito for donating baby clothes and a washing machine.
• Thanks to Cathey Wickens for donating an otoscope.
• Thanks to Paul Lawi for donating laptops.
• Thanks to Immie Long for donating beanie babies for our babies to play with.
• Thanks to the Rosenburg’s for donating puppets and beanie babies.
• Thanks to Hazel Buck for all the amazing things she has donated to our babies and our babies home from clothes, to toys to stationary and baby supplies.
• Thanks to Aisling Moyle for donating a wonderful pink raincoat.
• Thanks to Fiona Gray for donating gloves and baby clothes.
• We wouldn’t be here without Megan Howard who has been with use since Day One and helped us set up and manage our Babies Home and also persuading her lovely church to  donating blankets, sheets, bibs, clothes, baby bouncers and CD Players.
• Thanks to Greenacre Church of Christ for donating blankets, clothes and plenty of baby supplies.
• Thanks to Kerry Bradshaw for donating phones, surge protectors, loads of stationary, clothes, toys and books.
• Thanks to Freya for donating nappies and wet wipes.
• Thanks to Lynn Mitchell and Kath Levey for coming out to Uganda and volunteering their time and expertise as well as donating clothes, nappies and toys.
• Thanks to Annette Olalobo for donating clothes and nappies.
• Thanks to Jennie Penhallow for regularly visiting us with Samuel and Mark and bringing with them some of the funniest weirdest toys we’ve ever seen and biscuits for all our staff!
• Thanks to Karen Dixon for coming over to give our babies love and attention in December and bringing with her books, toys,  nappies and baby supplies and a car seat and also finding times to make us 25 stockings for our first Christmas
• Thanks to Nina Bailey for coming out to volunteer her time as our brilliant Office Manager for three months and help us with copy for our adoption website and bringing with her CD’s, USB sticks, fabric markers… and condoms.
• Thanks to Hamish Barker from Pomegranate Clothing for donating staff clothing for our home.
• Thanks to Tommee Tippee for their very kind donation of loads and loads of baby supplies.
• Thanks to Hush for donating pyjamas and baby grows.
• Thanks to Johnson & Johnson for their donation of loads of baby supplies.
• Thanks to Bell House Medical Centre for donating Ambubags and hand sanitizer.
• Thanks to Kamsons Pharmacy for donating toothbrushes and plastic spoons.
• Thanks to Sino Africa for donating torches.
• Thanks to Boudicca Fox-Leonard who wrote about Lucy in the Daily Mail.
• Thank you to Sara Stephens for organising the 5k Super Hero run in 2010 and for raising £264 for us and encouraging her team of superheroes Stefan Hodgson, Ryan Alagar, Kevin O’Brien, Peter Baker and Tom Hards.
• Thanks to Jen Johnson  for taking on the Just Walk 2010 for us and for raising an enormous £1078 for us and then coming out to Uganda and signing up to do possibly one of the hardest on the planet! Wonderwoman does not begin to describe you….
• Thanks to Sandi Christie for Going Backwards to Raise Awareness and for raising £309 for us.
• Thanks to Accountants for International Development (AfID) who agreed to partner with us and send out lovely accountants to Uganda starting with Stella in April 2011!
• Thanks to Bea Thombs for running the Royal Parks Half Marathon 2010 and for raising £1145 for us.
• Thanks to Emma Clarkson, Adam MacLeod, Duncan Groves, Catherine James and Charlotte Groom for signing up to run the Brighton Marathon 2011 for us.
• Thanks to Laura Henry who came out to Uganda and was part of our team in July and then went back home and did some incredible fundraising for us.
• Thanks to Mary Blackwell AKA Mazza who came out to Uganda in June 2010 to volunteer her incredible social works skills for 6 months and ended up managing a department and being persuaded to stay with us for another year.
• Thanks to Mama Jenette who came out in January to help the babies and the team through difficult times and be a mummy to all. Can’t wait to see you again in September.
• Thanks to Emily Taylor, Rachel Mahon, Isabel Thomas, Alexander Thomas and Kristen Hobden who came out to volunteer in July and helped us research crafts.
• Thanks to Rebecca Gibson who has been volunteering with us on our fundraising team and came out to Uganda for two months to sprinkle her magic and incredible organisational skills.
• Thanks to the lovely Josie Gallo who came out to volunteer her media skills and the quickest editing we’ve ever seen and produced videos for friends including Elizabeth House and Craft Aid.
• Thanks to Barbara Graham and David Wartnaby who came out to produce brilliant video and radio content for our adoption campaign assisted by the wonderful Donna Airey.
• Thanks to the brilliant Becks Symons who came out for three months to volunteer as our Office Manager and take over from Bec’s as Laminating Queen.
• Thanks to our amazing long standing Rotherfield Fundraising Committee who have worked tirelessly since the beginning of @childsi headed up by Mummy Buck. Thanks to Sharon Howard who oversees the Children’s Nearly New Sale and helps out with everything, Lyn Onslow who organises the Quiz Night and two Walks every year, Vicki Beeney our very own community twitterer and FB guru who sources most of our raffle prizes and generally gets the word out there! Janis Steel who is always there to help, although is happiest in the kitchen serving food and drink, Julie Kitchen, the Artistic one which is there are any displays needed, call Julie and Delny Harris who never misses an event and always lends a hand.
• Thanks to Stephon at Oi You who designed the most amazing poster for our Christmas Market for us even though he was very busy.
• Thanks to Endemol staff for giving us an amazing first Christmas and sending us lots of pressies.
• Thanks to Lucy’s Brother-in-Law Mark Wheeler who ran the Tunbridge Wells Half Marathon and raised £250.
• Thanks to Sophie & Jon who are getting married in Lyme Regis and asked their friends and family to donate money to @childsi and the National Autistic Society.
• Thanks to Know How Non Profit for including @childsi as a Digital Charity case study
• Thanks to the lovely Anu who designed ‘Our Projects’ part of our website.
• Thanks to Dorthe Bucknell who came out as a VSO volunteer and helped set up our prevention centre and became the best mentor anyone could have and then going home and agreeing to join our Board of Trustees.
• Thanks to Caroline Veale from the VSO who came to our centre to help our little boys with speech and language therapy.
• Thanks to Anna Blackwell who came out to see her sister Mary and bought a bag full of goodies.
• Thanks to the lovely Bernie Jiwa who asked supporters around the world to unsip for @childsi
• Thank you to the following supporters who helped Save Joey’s life: Sarah Clarke, Kirsty Hinchcliff, John Rhodes, Paul Evans, Liz Hugen-Tobler, Delmi Thomas, Katx, Iain Coyle, Matthew Knight, Kirsty Stephenson, Kaeli Denison, Hattie, Perle Laouenan-Catchpole, Mark Phillips, Claire Ratinon, Hannah Hilbery, Sandra Crowley, Steve Bridger, Steve Perry, Lisa Martinson, Sarah Simpson, Sarah Burkeman, Helen Osborne, Ian Johnson, Katie Corcoran, Katy Morris, Andrew Garcia, Rosie Johnson, Georges Ratinon, Eleanor Robins, Kristy Robinson, Mary Blackwell, Bec Nielsen, The Griffiths Family, The Marlowes, Lindsay Williams, Jodie Taylor, Joey Haasbroek, Susan Gaymer, Carla Lawrence, Anu Gupta, Flo, Karen Dixon, Jessica Browning, Jennie Penhallow, Catherine Skakle, Lianne Pegrum, Gloria Charles, Kathryn Hurford, Joanna Relf, Nick Hall, Sophie, Geraldine Roul, Jonathan, Linda Utting, Rae Langford, Michele Marsland, Tamsin Simmonds, Sally O’Donoghue, Cathy Meacock, Lisa Howells, Emily Lawson, Marie Harding, Caroline and Kristen, Leanne Ford, Clare Aitken, Donna Dimitriou, Shivani Gupta, Tamsin Gale, Oliver Le Sueur, New Born Adventure, Mark Wallis, Fiona Harris, Anita Frayling, Oliver Bridge, Jenny Paine, Jerome Mallon, Anna Ozemoya, Jane Shaw, David Holland, Douglas Joy, Claire Livingstone, Oliver Wright, Caroline Knott, Lucy Buck, Zofia Hennelly, Jo’anne McAlindon, Helen Fish, Frances Plummer, Lauren Havard, Chole Avery, Penny Brashaw, Lisa C, Megan Arnold, Will Jobling, Anne Catliff, Andrew Crisell, Simon Frank, Sarah Collins, Alexis Price, Lucy Pullinger, Bernadette Jiwa, Melinda Mutton, Chloe Samwell-Smith, Tina Nielsen, Laura Francis, Georgina Irvine Robertson, Dom Waugh, Barbara Seymour, Suzy Silver, Michelle Lawrence, Richard Thomson, Stephanie Sanchez de Muniain, GemaTech, Bryony Flint, Yasmine Richardson, Amanda Preskett, Pete Stephens, Sally Braithwaite, Lizzie O’Donohoe, Suzette Haas, Ann Sharp, Rebecca Garnett, Nicole Sloman, Sangeet Bhullar, Donna Brown, Louise Scrivens, Estelle McCartney, Kate & Aidan Kong, Peter Landers, Rachel Liddle, Rob Davies, Samantha Barber, Natalie Hart, Stone King Sewell Katherine Armstrong, Sally Radford, Belle, Hannah Davies, Sarah Murphy, Marcos Gaser, Gabriela Henriksson, Aline Reed, Melissa Morgia, Alexandra Davies, Laura Parkes, Hannah Britz, Anne Scott, Adrian Marshall Williams, Rahul Deodhar, Wilfred & Edmund, Annette Diziol, Fraser Simpson, Kimberley MacKenzie, Arnolda Hunter, Niki & Graeme Simpson, Imogen Tonder, Cathryn McNaughton, Peter Mallett, Victoria Thompson-Hill, Miranda Webster, Domo Wilkinson, Emma Morgan, Sarah Boobyer & James Byrne, Vicky Bull, Laura Phipps, Katy Swan, Jenny Evans, Meenum & Alpesh Shah, Stephanie Howarth, Sara Stephens, Sharon Hall, Belinda Widgery, Annis Bailey, Catherine Ball, Georgina Godfray, James Whitby, Claire O’Dowd, Ali, Pete and Annette Barlow, Sally McFadden, Viki Kolar, Charly White, Hayley & Rhys, JC, Charlotte Gallagher, Nina Clement, Julia Barlow, Christo and Katty Brashaw, Rachel Matthews, Emily Taylor,  Greg Double, Stuart Ashley, Katy Muncer, Roena Gooch, Mary Driscoll, Donna Airey, Harriet Marshall, Jennifer Crompton, Verity Page, Sarah, Becky & Daniel, Liz & Callum, Julia Langford, Sophie Tait, Katy O’Brien, Nick Pointon, Sarah Hessing, Laura Wood, Jane O’Brien, Emily O’Brien, Nish Afsar, Mary Wbn, Sylvia Prince, Michael & Liz Hurford, Jay Morris, Jas Chopra, Chad Rogers, Arti, Paul Stott, Dinah Salako, Andrew Doran and family, Ros Coward, Ann Sammon, Selina Weller, Daniel Hart, Shardee Hoff, Emily Selby, Niamh Byrne, Shanly Meronek, Anna-Lisse & Joe Dickinson, Ian Wilson, Nick Mallett, Yvonne Cook, Hazel Buck, Jo Farrelly, David Davies, Phil Taylor, Stacey Parish & Andy Currey,  Dervla McParland, Lisa Dixon, Mark Carter, Susan Anderson, Sophie Butler, Sarah Wild, Richard Semple, Jonathan Gill, Nick McCabe, Sandra Mbabazi, Tom Blakeson, Deepti Patel,  King’s Church Manchester, Lara Gordon, Joanna Gilfoy, Alex Hodgetts, Hazel Bullen, Shona Egerton, Charlotte Glover, David Rolfe, Tracy Evans, Marina Evans, Annalisa Jones, Daniel Ruhweza and Kelly Ferguson.
• Thanks to  Lynda Bleazard at the Walter Sisulu Paediatric Cardiac Centre for Africa in Johannesburg for paying the £4000 outstanding balance on the operation and thanks to supporters around the world – Paul Choudhury, Chris Parsons, Ravi Pandit, Jenette Davies and Andreas Tsakistos at Children’s HeartLink for their time and expertise in helping us to find the best option for baby Joey.
• Thanks to Mog Harding for her enduring support, advice and amazing encouragement.
• Thanks to Alissa Barlow for managing to do two full time jobs and managing our fundraising back in the UK in her spare time. She deserves her own personal award besides collecting our Just Giving award.
• Thanks to the wonderful Merrow Golden who is our fantastic fundraising intern extrordinaire.
• Thanks to the guys at Just Giving Towers for all their support for our Joey campaign and making us Creative Charity of the Year 2011
• Thanks to Endemol UK who have very kindly agreed to pay for Lucy’s salary for the year, taking over from the Vodafone Foundation who sponsored Lucy in 2010 through their World of Difference program.
• Thanks to Sissel Smaller who will be climbing L’Hotse, the fourth highest mountain in the world and hopes to be the first Norwegian woman to summit L’Hotse. Truly inspirational.
• Thanks to David Tait, our Chairman and hero. He gave Lucy 30 minutes of his time to listen to a pitch and believed in our idea and agreed to be our Chairman. David  will be climbing Mount Everest for the fifth time without any supplemental oxygen and has already raised over £20,000. We are constantly amazed by David’s dedication to Child’s i Foundation and his motivation to help charities like us.
• Thanks to Megan Blandford for writing a lovely blog post about our Mothers Day campaign
• Thanks to David Emin  for agreeing to be a Trustee and for going above and beyond to help us engage new supporters.
• Thanks to our 2011 Ball committee extraordinaire: Marie McGrath, Emma Crosby, Annabelle Bond, Sissel Smaller, Liz Thomas and David Emin  and for all their help in promoting our Mother’s Day campaign.
• Thank to the lovely  Jenni Baden Howard @Non-Stop Mama for helping us promote our Mother’s Day campaign.
• Thank you to the lovely Pete Landers (@rebornkoala), Pete Scott and the whole team at Cityscape Digital for their help producing our beautiful Mother’s Day cards.
• Thanks to Annette Barlow (@thegirlsare) and Naomi Scott (@naomihatesyou) for their calming influence and help with the Mother’s Day website.
• Thank you to Christie from Home Grown Mama for talking about our Mother’s Day campaign
• Thank you to Emma Marks and Jolene Humphry from Mum’s Lounge for mentioning our Mother’s Day campaign
• Thank you to Manisha Tulsiani and Corin Fogarty at The Online Studio who very kindly created some advertising for us (within 2 days) to support our Mother’s Day Campaign on the Babycentre.co.uk
• Thanks to Irene and baby Cara for their donations to Malaika Babies Home
• Patricia donated a sewing machine and knitting loom and offered one of the mums an apprenticeship – Big Thanks!
• Thanks to Jayne and Joe Gallo for donations – face cloths, toothbrushes, pillow cases, fabrics markers and clothes
• Thank you to the following people who all made donations for Sarah Kenyon to bring out: Trudy Riley, Sam Ferguson, Louise Blenkinship, Laura Dinsdale, Cheryl & Stephen Kenyon, Katie Dooley, Jim & Sharon Capper, Ursula Howarth, Carol & Brian Cowell, Katie Cowburn.
• A Huge thanks to Avenue Nursery School for their very generous donation!
• A warm welcome to Martha Parsons who will be heading up our adoption campaign. She  brought a wonderful array of donations over – big thanks!
• Thanks so much to Kate Christall for hosting a gingerbread house making workshop!  Thanks to Kate and her friends they raised over $200!
• Thank you and welcome to the lovely Sarah Kenyon who came bearing gifts a plenty and staying with us as our office manager for three months!
• Thank you to the team at Sambag for their lovely blog about Child’s i
• Thanks to Leanne Smith for setting herself a mission – making and selling 30 Pillows in 30 Sleeps!  She succeeded and raised an amazing $530!
• Thank you to Community Care for writing an article about our dedicated social worker Mary Blackwell
• Naomi at Under The Yardarm wrote a beautiful blog about our Mother’s Day Baby Shower – thank you Naomi!
• Thanks to Charity Insight for their article on Child’s i ranking in the Top 100 Social Brands
• Thanks to Becky at Baby Budgeting for promoting our Mother’s Day Baby Shower
• The Rotherfield Community Fundraising Team have been at it again!  They raised £450 from their Nearly New Sale.  Thanks so much to all involved.
• Thank you to Greenergy for making us their Charity Of The Year!
• Thanks to Third Sector for their article about Child’s i and the amazing achievement of being in the Top 100 Social Brands
• Thank you to Sandra Potter and the Natural Health Centre, Crowborough for hosting an Undress For Uganda fundraiser and raising £198 in the process
• Zest, a beautiful gift shop in Crowborough, raised £50 just by having a donation box!  Thanks to the staff for your support.
• A huge thank you to Hazel Buck, Janis Steel, Naomi Berwick, Polly Berwick and Delny Harris for helping with the Car Boot Sale in Tunbridge Wells.  An amazing result with £270!
• Thanks to Beautiful World for their blog about CiF and how Twitter was used so successfully in our campaign to Save Joey’s Life
• Thank you to Juliet at Parenting UK for helping us promote our Mother’s Day Baby Shower through her blog
• Thanks to the team at the PLUS Awards for selecting Child’s i as their chosen charity
• Thanks to Brent Simmons for organising a fundraising event in Japan.  Not only did he tell everyone at the event about Child’s i, they also raised £724!
• Thank you to Tat from Mum In Search for your fantastic blog about our Mother’s Day Baby Shower
• A huge thank you to the creative talent of Chris Mackenzie, Beryl Mate, Latisha Buttsworth and Abbey Trappel.  Our baby girls look beautiful in their dresses!
• We received some gorgeous knitwear thanks to the ladies of Rotherfield St Martins
• Thanks so much to Jessie Reid and the team at My Child Magazine, Australia for their support and promoting our Mother’s Day Baby Shower on their events page.
• A huge thank you to Bronwyn Neeson and the girls at Camp Quality in Sydney.  They purchased necklaces which are being sold to raise money for Child’s i.  A huge $215, thanks girls!
• A warm welcome to Hannah Boyd-Carson & Faye Newport who will be popping in over the next month to help out with feeds and playtime!
• A massive thank you to Trish at My Little Drummer Boys for letting Bec Nielsen, a previous volunteer at Malaika, have a guest post on her blog!
• A huge thank you to Jenny Paine & Diana Weston for bringing out so many wonderful donations! Thank you to all those within their community who donated too!
• A massive thanks to Nerys Nicholls for taking on the huge task of organising the Brighton Marathon again this year and Matt Edmondson for his support on the day.
• A huge thanks to all of our supporters who ran the Brighton Marathon 2011 for Child’s i.  Thank you to Adam MacLeod, Catherine James, Duncan Groves and Emma Clarkson as well as Charlotte Groom who couldn’t run as she was injured.  An amazing £4194.10 was raised, what a fantastic result!
• Thank you to Liz Griffiths from Mumstrosity for promoting our Mother’s Day Baby Shower in Australia
• Thank you so much to Melinda McCheyne who asked guests to donate to CiF for her birthday this year, instead of giving her presents!
• Thanks to Helen our new friend for bringing some donations for the babies and teaching them some new songs!
• A huge thank you to Diana and Vanessa for the three suitcases they bought over and paid extra for, full of clothes and goodies for the babies!  Thank you also to Jenny Pehallow for spreading the word about our cause!
• A huge thank you to Jodie from Muddled Up Mumma for her lovely blog, helping to promote our Mother’s Day Baby Shower in Australia
• An amazing £1251 was raised at a Quiz Night in Crowborough!  A massive thanks to Rob Veitch (Quizmaster), Chris Steel (MC), organisers Lyn Onslow & Hazel Buck and helpers Derek Onslow, Sharon & Mark Howard and Chris Buck
• Melissa writes a great blog about being adopted, thank you so much for the post about Child’s i
• Thank you so much to Steph at ‘Yoga With . . .’ for donating a percentage of her profits from the yoga pregnancy classes she holds
• Thank you to Nicole from Planning With Kids for hosting a guest post on her amazing blog, letting us get the word out about Child’s i in Australia!
• Thank you to Barbara Stacy from Dominion Petroleum who popped in this week to drop off some wonderful donations & have a play!
• A huge thank you to Heather from BA who called in to meet some of our residents & brought us some fabulous donations!
• A massive thank you to Rose & Grace from Sightsavers who gave up their time to give all of our babies a thorough eye test check up!
• A huge thank you to Debbie at Aspiring Mum for her lovely blog promoting our baby shower in Australia!
• Thank you to Michael and Melissa Konomos for mentioning us on their great blog http://yoonsblur.blogspot.com
• A huge thank you to the lovely, hardworking men from Sadolin Paints, who came to refresh our nursery. What an amzing job, it looks brand new!
• A big welcome to Emanuela Lorenzone our new Media Volunteer, who will be with us for the next 3 months. She came loaded down with donations and treats for the children and staff – brilliant!
• Thank you so much to Angel of Scooby Doos, “Boom Boom Tyme 4 Kidz”, who made Malaika Babies Home 1st Birthday super special with lots of face painting fun!
• North West Evening Mail for writing an article about Mama Jenette returning to Ug.
• Thanks to the dream team from AfID Sam Kemp and Nikki Hearmon who have come to volunteer their finance and HR expertise.
• Thanks to Annet and Cyrus from African Woman who are doing a feature on our adoption campaign.
• Thank you to Georgia Haddock who donated £100 to CiF by selling cards. So sorry you didn’t get to see us when you came to Uganda.
• We love Amy Fallon for her journo superpowers. Coming to volunteer with us, putting up with living with Lucy and writing an incredible 4 page feature about adoption in Uganda for African Woman. When she went back to Blighty she helped us recruit a Social Work expert and sending us regular emails about press opportunities – come back soon Amy!
• Thanks to the incredible Emanuella Lorenzone who was our media volunteer who produced the most beautiful videos for our adoption campaign, our national TV campaign and regular updates plus she was the social queen of Kampala – we miss you Manu.
• Respect to Martha Parsons a force of nature who came over to Uganda for 5 months and produced a whole media campaign to promote domestic adoption in Uganda. Take a look at how she pulled it off with the help of our worldwide community of supporters.
• A huge thanks to Mark Hopkins, Jackie Hopkins and the team at We’ll Mind Your Own Business for taking on the monumental job of our 2010 audit as well as giving us office space. We salute you and your team – thank you.
• Thanks to Stuart Mansworth or Stu cabs as he is affectionately known and the wonderfully generous staff at Green Energy Fuels who made us their charity of the year and donated £5250,00.
• Thanks to the wonderful Rocca Gutteridge who came out to Uganda and conquered the Ugandan art scene and bought the most beautiful works of art to put on an art exhibition in spring 2012 where the proceeds go to Child’s i Foundation.
• We adore the formidable Tricia Glover who put on the incredible Signature Art exhibition in aid of Child’s i Foundation showcasing Uganda’s best artistic talent. This event could not have been put on with our the generous support of Sudhir Ruparelia who gave us space, food and wine at Kabira Club, Transami, AON, Crane Bank, Nile Gold and the incredible Alliance Française Kampala.
• We are completely indebted to the amazing Lottie Kerridge who sprinkled her nursery teacher magic and designed the most incredible learning by play curriculum and taught our nursery teacher Christine a learning by play curriculum.
• Thanks to Mark Riley for providing support and guidance to Child’s i Foundation on all levels and helping us with our strategy.
• Thanks to Keren Riley for her unwavering support over the past year of Child’s i Foundation and volunteering her services as a brilliant camera person.
• We know we keep mentioning Bec Nielsen but she doesn’t stop helping us. Ever. She came back to volunteer her time, looked after our management team and fed us toasted sandwiches, did a complete stock take off everything we own and then pootled back to Oz (with a quick trip back to Blighty to meet Mummy Hazel and the rest of the CiF volunteers) to continue overseeing our Baby Shower.
• Thanks to Rachael Shopland for volunteering her financial expertise to help us generate the template for our latest budget. We can’t wait to see you in November.
• Kudos to the boys at The Beacon School in Amersham who raised a whopping £3,046.75 from a sponsored scooter day. Looking forward to showing you our home on Skype when you all get back from school holidays.
• Thanks to the brave and wonderful New Vision columnist Angela Kintu who wrote a series of features on her personal experiences of adopting a child in Uganda and creating a much needed debate in Uganda.
• Thanks to Cyril Theret and his team at Plus Markets Group who hosted the Plus Markets Awards in aid of Child’s i Foundation.
• Lucy loves her great Aunty Daphne and her fellowship at the United Church Crowborough for listening to her presentation and donating a very generous £83.92 and offering to knit blankets for our babies.
• Thanks to the continued support of Avenue Nursery who have made us their charity and also donate cools toys and Bumbo’s which are the most incredible invention when you have a room full of babies!
• Thanks to Kim & Roger Carmichael who asked friends to donate to Child’s i Foundation instead of buying Roger a pressie for his 50th birthday.
• We absolutely adore Jennie Penhallow and Mark Thriscutt (the couple who regularly visit our homer and bring weird and wonderful toys and biccy’s) who got hitched and asked their lovely guests to donate to Child’s I Foundation and raised an incredible £2155.
• Thanks to Matt Rumins at Salesforce who gave the Child’s i team database training and made CiF his charity and promising a whole week of his expertise to build a bespoke database for our Social Work team.
• Thanks to Barry Clarke from The Change Agency and Dianne Thompson from Camelot for being inspirational mentors to Lucy.
• Thanks to Ryan Bromley who ominously met our team in the rain under a bandstand and agreed to help us with our community fundraising and came up with some genius mobile.
• Thanks to Penny Brashaw for knitting the most beautiful blankets for our children to take home to their families.
• Thanks to Julia Parrish and Liz Hugen -Tobler for organizing the third Tidebrook tennis tournament which didn’t stop even when there was a downpour and raising an incredible £794.
• Thanks to Jeremy Parrish at Standard Chartered Bank for donating an iPad.
• Thanks to Jemma Grey for being our girl on our ground and helping us with everything and anything too with administration.
• Thanks to Threes a Crowd team for donating an intimate evening with Bryan Ferry in the Isle of Wight as prize at the Plus Markets awards.
• Thanks to Linda Harding for very generously asking her friends to donate her 60th birthday presents to Child’s i Foundation.
• We totally respect the formidable Rachael McCool who conquered Mount Kilimanjaro and raised a huge £2,228.00.
• We love having Tom Hollings join our team to produce regular video updates and videos for partner organisations and looking forward to Braken joining him.
• Thank you to Robert Common for being there for us through thick and thin.
• Thanks to Mo for donating two desks (we keep getting bigger and running out of desk spaces).
• Thanks so much to Max, Jonny, Tess, Ellie & Jo for stopping by Malaika and bringing us lots of books & toys for our kids.
• Thanks to all our supporters to gave us time to fill in our survey to tell us how we’re doing and how we can improve.
• Thanks to Jenette Davies who did a talk about Child’s i Foundation to Millom Rotary club who generously donated £50.