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Margaret Blumsom is a long supporter of The Footprints Family and as it was her 80th Birthday this year she decided to have a party to celebrate. She asked people who attended to not buy gifts but donate money to the Footprints Family to help support us.. It was a great night attended by friends and family, so good to be able to get together a...

Annie cycles for The Footprints Family Annie Carter has done a sponsored cycle ride to raise much needed funds for the Footprints Family. It took place last July and she raised a massive £1250 The Footprints Family would like to send a huge thank you to the Carter Family for their wonderful support. This is Annie's story.... I came up with the idea...

Abbie Law has painted these pictures and created Christmas cards. She is selling them and giving 20% of the profits to Footprints. Thank you Abbie.  Rachel noticed that she had racked up some decent trail mileage this year, so she decided to give herself a challenge of running 500 miles before the end of the year. Her friend saw this and chall...

You may have already seen Mama Kerry has been stranded for the time being in the UK  as Kenya is one of the countries on our 'Red' list.  As it is 4000 miles to Kenya from here by plane she thought she would do a fundraiser by holding a 'Fun' Triathlon where she, the Footprints children and anyone else who would like to don...

We have just learnt of yet another fundraiser and thought we could share the achievement and a few photos Louise has completed the Adidas City Run in Islington. She raised an impressive £140 If you have recently done a fundraiser for Footprints please let us know and we can share the news

Amazon have introduced a new way to donate to your favourite charity, by using smile.amazon.co.uk You can now add The Footprints Family as your nominated charity and 0.5% of all eligible purchases go to Footprints.How to turn on Amazon Smile in the mobile app1. Join AmazonSmile. Select Footprints Family as your favourite charity to generate donatio...

A huge thank you to those of you who have already supported The Footprints Family by purchasing one of our numbers on the BONUS BALL.  The most up-to-date list of numbers sold is shown below.   There are still some numbers available to purchase during December.   Why not purchase a Bonus Ball as a gift with a differenc...

On 11th April Gemma Courtney held a Virtual Afternoon Tea Party for her mum's birthday. The children at Footprints even joined in and they raised a huge £850  

In May 2020 Carlota Verges who was a volunteer at Footprints in October 2019 did a sewing fundraising event. She made small wallets and make up bags from African material she purchased while in Kenya and asked people to donate in exchange for the wallet or bag. 

On 26th April, The Footprints Orphanage took part in the 2.6 ChallengeJohn Dixon rode his bike for a total of 2.6 hours nonstopStephanie Arad Ballet and pupils from her ballet school have completed several different ballets moves – 26 times each Faye Morrall walked 26 miles with the help of her sister and parents cheering her on in the last mile. S...

Marian Askew, Committee Member and Volunteer was invited along to Year 9 Assembly to receive money raised from a recent non- uniform day. A cheque for £723 was presented by two Year 9 pupils. Staff and pupils were interested to hear of developments at Footprints, the amazing achievements of the older children's exam results enabling them to be acce...

James Twynham (Senior Teacher at JTHS) was immensley proud of all of their students and staff and was able to present a cheque for £4742.29 to the charity The funds were raised through a number of activities organised by the pupils last summer, in memory of Holly Brown. Jo Menzies accepted the cheque on behalf of the charity. The Year 11 pupils wat...

Girl's Day Out - Edinburgh 17th March 2018 Lisa Gray (Trustee) with her team, once again organised a fabulous Girl's Day Out in Edinburgh. All 360 women enjoyed a fun-filled day of music, dancing, games and friendship. Lisa talked passionately about Footprints and Kerry gave an update of the latest children to join the Footprints Family. It never c...

Dear friend and supporter of Footprints This year's ball will take place on 23rd November 2019 at St. George's Park. See our flyer above. We are selling tickets with immediate effect. Please note that as we have not increased the ticket price for a number of years, we have decided to have a set price of £60.00 per ticket. Deposits of £20.00 are pay...