Snapshots Projects - 7th March 2010

The deadline for you to submit your snapshots projects has been extended to Sunday 7th March

How you submit your projects is completely up to you-it is your team’s chance to showcase all your hard work.

Your project does need to include several key elements:

The fundraising ideas and activities (What were your ideas? How did you decide which ones to try?)
Evidence of your fundraising (letters or emails of support/rejection, copies of promotional materials, photos, video clips, newspaper cuttings etc)
How did you raise awareness about the work of the charity? (Include evidence as above)
The role of each team member
Overall skills that you have learned/developed (what you think you have done well and how you overcame problems)

You also need to include the following with your project:

Photos- high quality photos ON DISC of all your fundraising-make sure you tell us who is in them and what is happening
Press cuttings if you got your events in the press then please include three copies of the press cutting in a separate envelope with your project
A cheque for the money raised (payable to The Wings of Hope)
ALL signed Gift Aid forms that you have collected
Reference letters from your parents and teachers (see below)

ALL PROJECTS NEED TO BE SUBMITTED WITH THE SUBMISSION FORM

Remember this is your chance to really be creative and make your project stand out to give your team the best chance of getting through to the House of Lords Semi Finals!

Sending your Project:

By post: Send your project by post to our offices at

The Wings of Hope

Supreme House

12 Iron Bridge Close

Great Central Way

London

NW10 0UF

Digital projects: If your project is in digital format then please send us both a hard copy on disc or USB stick to the above address and a digital copy by email to Rebecca@thewingsofhope.org. Please follow up a few days later to confirm that we have received it.

Reference Letters

Each team will need to submit a short letter from their parents about their WOHAA experience. This is your parent’s opportunity to tell us their thoughts and feelings on your WOHAA projects, what skills they feel you have developed along the way and any feedback they would like to give about WOHAA. The letter need only be a short paragraph, and parents can log on to www.thewingsofhope.org/forparents.asp for more guidance, or can give us a call on 020 8438 1598 with any questions.

Each team will also need to submit a short reference letter from your liaison teacher (one per team). WOHAA will be contacting your school WOHAA liaison teacher directly to remind them, however it is also your responsibility to remind your teacher and get the letter from them – get them to give us a call/email if they are unsure of anything.

Good Luck and we look forward to seeing your projects on Sunday 7th March!!

Industry Skills Workshops

Registration is now open for students to attend one of the fantastic free industry skills workshops hosted by our corporate supporters. These workshops are available exclusively to WOHAA participants, and offer an amazing insight into life in a variety of careers and industries at some of the largest and most successful organisations in the World.

We are extremely excited to offer you the chance to attend workshops at Saatchi & Saatchi, Boots, Edelman and Accenture!

Click here for more information and to register for your place!

Limited Edition WOHAA T-shirts!

Wings of Hope have designed very special limited edition fashion tees! The t-shirts come in five colours complete with printed wings on the back, so make sure you visit the WOHAA Shop for your very own pair of wings!

Students can get theirs for a special price of £7 or buy two for £10. All proceeds will help finance the Wings of Hope projects located in India and in Malawi, Africa.

Follow these simple steps to place your order now:

Specify the colours and sizes (small, medium, large) you want.
Don’t forget to include your home address and contact details with your order, otherwise we will not be able to send you your tees!
Add up the cost of the t-shirts and add £3 for postage and packaging to one delivery address
Once you have listed the colours, sizes, totalled the cost and included your home address, please send your cheque to:

The Wings of Hope,

Supreme House,

12 Iron Bridge,,

Great Central Way,

London,

NW10 0UF

Are you ready for the first ever WOHAA Day?

On Thursday 12th November 2009, the first ever WOHAA fundraising day will launch! Students from all over the UK will be ‘Getting their wings on’ and getting involved in wing related fundraising for WOHAA Day.

Any wings go!

Students at participating schools from around the country will be able to pay £1 to wear wings to school for one whole day! Look out for posters that will be appearing around your school. There are so many ways to get involved – so make sure your team does not miss out and get creative with your fundraising ideas!

Calling all budding photographers!

We will be holding a ‘wacky photo competition’ on WOHAA Day, so get inventive and snap some interesting photographs of your team in action. Capture your wacky wing related fundraising on film and be in on the chance of winning an XBOX playing console with games thrown in! The deadline for photo submissions will be Friday the 20th November so get snapping.

Get your projects out there

WOHAA Day is a great opportunity for your team to launch and publicise your events. Take advantage of this day and use it as a platform to raise awareness and funds for your upcoming WOHAA projects. So how is your team going to get involved? Will you hold a winged back sale? Do a crazy chicken dance? Or hold a giant paper aeroplane race? However you plan to fundraise, make sure you get your creative juices flowing!

Break a world record!

Not only is the 12th of November the first ever WOHAA Day, it is also the Guinness World Record Day 2009! Here is a great idea, why not combine your fundraising efforts with breaking a world record? Your WOHAA Day could go down in history.

Think BIG

This could also be the chance to get together with other teams in your school and organise an extravagant joint event and share ideas and tips.

Get Online!

Don't forget, you can always log on to the student forum if you are stuck for ideas or want to share your sensational idea with other WOHAA participants. Make sure your friends stay updated through Facebook events and status updates and tweet all about it on twitter!

Alumni!

Also, don’t forget that if you are WOHAA alumni you can also get involved in the day by helping out at an event or even rally your WOHAA team together holding your own one off event to relive those WOHAA glory days!

Click here for all your 'Get Your Wings On' WOHAA Day resources to get you started!

Sir David Jason gets Achievement Award off ground

“As you can imagine, I receive a great many requests to help out with various charities but, unfortunately, I cannot help out with each and every one. However, when I heard about Wings of Hope and their ambitions, I found it struck a chord with me as not only does it help to raise money for developing schools in impoverished areas around the world, it encourages our own schoolchildren to use their skills for a charitable cause. This gives them a sense of pride and brings out an organisational attitude which extends into their working life. In turn, a schoolchild in a less fortunate environment directly benefits.”

“I Hope everyone who looks at this website is moved into action. Go on – try it – you know it makes sense.”

WOHAA winners return from India, after a trip of a life time

The Wing of Hope Achievement Award winners of 2008 have just returned from a fantastic trip of a lifetime to Chennai in South India. Team CKEBAM from Channing School in London, were the overall winners of the award. Their award winning ideas included an ice-skating disco, soup sales, carol singing and collection boxes at local shops.

Kristina Gadsby, Emma Roberts, Alexandra Wylie, Bonnie Groves and Maddy O’Bryen all aged 15 years old jetted off to Chennai in late August. They presented an assembly at the school that the Wings of Hope sponsors in Chromepet, where they chortled and danced to “I’m a Londoner”. They then taught classes in English food, life in Britain and diseases! The classes were fun packed for the children, as they arranged for a sound quiz. Emma and Bonnie played through some iPod speakers the sounds of Morris dancing, the National Anthem, bagpipes and being in a football match. Ally and Kristina in their diseases class used glitter to depict germs and how easily they spread. At the end of that class, the glitter boxes had exploded, and all of the children were covered in glitter!

The girls were also lucky enough to see the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Wings of Hope School plot in Pondicherry, which the British High Commissioner inaugurated.

Get School Started Campaign - British High Commissioner launches new campaign

The school hopes to initially be a primary school, with 150 pupils, with expansion expected year-on-year. The charity is still committed to all of its other Wings of Hope projects, but feels that with its own school in Pondicherry – where educational needs are incredibly high – even more can be achieved to help in the plight of education for children.

The Get School Started Campaign, launched by Sir Richard is to help get this new school up and running as quickly as possible. The Campaign target is £500,000, and so every little will help.

Dragon’s Den star and Sir David Jason amongst judging panel at House of Lords Semi-final

25 teams were shortlisted to attend the Semi-finals – students from all over the country came down to Westminster, to revel in their achievement, and pitch to some incredible luminaries.

By the end of the judging, Deborah said that she was utterly confused as the standard of entry was so high. “I’d probably hire a few of them in a couple of years, if I could – their pitches were excellent.”

The other judging panel were fantastic too, with BBC news presenter, Nisha Pillai,Co-Founders, Dr R Sri Ram, Mrs Rajni Sriram CEO of JCPR, Jackie Cooper, the Vice-Chair of Saatchi and Saatchi, Peter Lovatt Lords McNally and Dholakia, Baroness Scott and many more.

The event was covered by The Evening Standard, SecEd Magazine, and Third Sector magazine