When you run a charity and spend all your waking hours wondering where your next donation is coming from it is tempting to only focus on the big fish so to speak, the grants, the corporate donations etc and to lose sight of all the ordinary people in Britain who have a "giving" nature.
Then something happens to shake you up a bit and bring you down to earth such as the sponsored cycle ride done by 17 year old Daniel Richardson who cycled around Kielder Water and raised around £100 for us. We've never met him, he doesn't know us personally, he just wanted to help.
In his own words:
"When I first heard of Nepal Schools Aid, I immediately saw the charity as an excellent way to ensure money donated to disadvantaged individuals in the country actually got to them, rather than it being lost in an assortment of various administrative fees. Since a sum of money normally seen as modest at best in England could do so much good in Nepal, I decided that I should try to raise as much as possible to help out by doing a sponsored bike ride. I talked to almost everyone I knew about doing it, and all of them were more than willing to put their name down to sponsor me. Once I had a good number of sponsors committed, I organised a date for the ride, went out and did it. The ride was around 26 miles, following the shore of Kielder Lake in Northumberland. After a few hours of getting lost repeatedly on very undulating terrain, I had cycled the entirety of the route. It was a very worthwhile effort, which I enjoyed, and I'm glad it raised so much money for Nepal Schools Aid."
Thanks Daniel, do you know any more like you?
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