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Registered Charity
No: 1049413
You can now donate to
Project Peru online by
clicking on the links below.
Credit Card
For further information click here
or download our
Gift Aid form here
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Events
& Activities
Forthcoming events &
activities in the UK:
| Can you propose venues for our craft
stall, or outlets for our crafts (hand-crafted goods from the Peruvian women's craft group Llamkaq Warmi; Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir; and some crafts made by the children
at our refuge) at events, festivals, fetes, fairs, etc coming up in
2007? If so please email us by clicking here. |
Project Peru will be doing a number of
private catering events in 2008: for more information about what we
could do for you click here. Examples
of previous events:
Weddings:
Peruvian Connection Launch: Project Peru was invited to
provide catering, Peruvian costumes and Latin American music at the
launch of Peruvian
Connection's new shop. |
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"Peru Days" in schools
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A number of awareness raising sessions have been
held in schools, tailored to specific needs. Among activities offered
in the past have been:
Peruvian dance, music and singing workshops, art
sessions making Peruvian designs, making Peruvian jewellery and
Peruvian food, a screen painting workshop to make a collage of the
Surrey Hills to send to the children's refuge in Peru, West Ridge Camelids'
exhibition, and their llamas and alpacas, an entertainment introduced
by Kausary
featuring some of their Latin American music, with some of the drama,
singing and dance prepared earlier in the day, as well as a supper
enjoying some of the Peruvian food made during the day.
Previous events have been held at Priorsfield
and Holy
Trinity schools.
If you would like to contact us to arrange for
Project Peru to visit your school click here.
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Sponsored Events
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Project Peru supporters raising money through
sponsored events and activities can now raise money quickly and easily
online with their own personalised web pages. For example, are you
doing the Inca
Trail? Why not raise sponsorship for us that way? Would you really
prefer to trek past poverty in Peru…or enjoy helping us to go on
helping Peru? Fabulous
Peru & The Other Reality. To set up a personalised web page for
a sponsored event click here or call 0800
028 6183 for more details.
You can sponsor any of the following events /
activities online via www.justgiving.com as featured on our home page, or click on
an individual link for personal pages if there is one.
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March
2008 onwards: Walking The Amazon
Not only is the Amazon now officially the longest
river in the world, but no-one has ever walked it from source to
mouth. Ed and Luke aim to be the first two men to achieve this...while
raising sponsorship for Project Peru . To sponsor them online click here.
For more information on their expedition visit www.walkingtheamazon.com. |
Some of our most recent events:
Some other past
events that may be repeated:
Ongoing activities in
the UK:
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Food
& Catering:
Can Project Peru cater for events or occasions that you are organising?
For example are you planning a 'celebration'?
We have previously done weddings,
anniversaries, birthdays, christenings, buffets, dinners, snacks,
picnics, cakes and parties. All arrangements on an individual basis,
strictly subject to our capacity.
We frequently cater with a Latin American theme,
especially at our own events, and have recently been able to offer
international cuisine from:
Europe
Latin America
Morocco
To enquire further please click here.
Regular activities also include Christmas cakes, Lenten
lunches, chutneys and jams, and home-made cakes. Christmas cakes and special celebration cakes are
specially iced and decorated by experts.
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Craft stall:
Hand-crafted goods from the Peruvian
women's craft group Llamkaq Warmi,
Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir and some
crafts made by the children at our refuge (subject to availability). |
Donated goods:
We have a rolling programme of collecting,
packing and wrapping donated goods for shipment to Peru in response
to identified needs. Some donated items we sell in the UK at car boot
sales, in private homes and second hand shops. |
What people have done
for us: what you could do for us:
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If you have a venue and an
audience (church, pub, hall, school, home, etc) we can arrange a joint
event with you. Or could you arrange one for us? If so please get in
touch.
Recent events/activities have
included:
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(university) Leeds To Lima In 2007
Leeds Peru Project is a Leeds University organization that has
established a relationship with Project Peru during 2006-7; two groups,
each of approximately 8 students, stayed at the Project Peru children’s
home (in Zapallal) for approximately one month each during June/July
2007. They were involved both in activities with the children there,
and also in funding and working on a building project in Las Laderas,
one of the nearby communities from which several of our children come.
There they built a temporary refuge for chidren, single mothers and
older people. The area of Las Laderas de Chillon is one of extreme
poverty. The students raised funds in the U.K. both collectively and
individually, including through sponsored activities, events and via www.justgiving.com. Most also
walked the Inca Trail. |
(shop launch) Peruvian
Connection Launch
Project Peru was invited to provide catering, Peruvian costumes and
Latin American music at the launch of Peruvian Connection's
new shop.
Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
February 2007. |
(pub quiz)
The Unofficial, Unelected Barnes Waterside Social Group Pub Quiz
An interactive and challenging pub quiz with fantastic prizes donated
by local Barnes businesses.
The Hit Bar & Restaurant, Hammersmith.
December 2006. |
(museum) Earth
Expo - An Artists' View Of The Earth
Including additional educational material and other exhibits
from Project Peru. To view photos of the event click here.
Haslemere
Educational Museum, High Street, Haslemere, Surrey.
June - September 2006. |
(summer break) Land's End - John o' Groats
Sponsored Cycle
Three of our supporters cycled from the tip of Cornwall to the famous
Highland destination.
August 2005. |
(film festival) DLA Film
Festival - The Screening
Discovering
Latin America presents the film El Perro in support of
The IV DLA Film Festival and Project Peru.
Odeon Covent Garden, London.
June 2005. |
(international campaign) "Make Poverty History" Day
St Saviour's Church, Guildford, Surrey.
April 2005. |
(club) Dorking
Judo Club
The Dorking Judo Club made Project Peru its charity to support in 2004.
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(company Christmas party) Salsa & Supper
Live music by Martha Acosta &
Manteca.
St Joseph's Hall, Guildford, Surrey.
December 2004. |
(on the road) Canterbury
- Assisi Sponsored Cycle
Three of our supporters cycling 2000km approx from England to Italy in
order to raise funds for us.
July - August 2003. |
(party / reunion) ¡Viva
Cap 40!
An evening of fabulous music and authentic Latin American food, with
special guests Ingrid & Ife.
St Jospeh's Hall, Guildford, Surrey.
December 2002. |
(church) An Evening With
Vladimir Vega
A Latin American evening of music, food and ideas , with a short
documentary.
St Alban's, Hindhead, Surrey.
November 2002. |
(home & garden) Sizzling
Samba On A Sunday
Swing to great Brazilian sounds in a cool English garden, August 2002. |
(church) Antara
Tupay
Concert of Andean music.
St Alban's, Hindhead, Surrey.
December 2001. |
(cult icon!) John
Otway
The inimitable John Otway live
in concert.
Chiddingfold Ex-servicemen's Club, Chiddingfold, Surrey.
April 2001. |
(pub) Swing On The
Half Moon To Cool Sounds
An evening of relaxing music and tasty snacks.
Half Moon Inn, Northchapel, West Sussex.
February 2001. |
(Christmas shopping) Fundraising Event At Crabtree & Evelyn
By invitation only: a percentage of all purchases on the evening
donated to Project Peru. Hampstead, Greater London. |
(Oil Company) Volunteer Involvement
Programme
A group of our supporters who are employed by ExxonMobil regularly
raise funds for us that are matched by their employer through the
Volunteer Involvement Programme (VIP) run by the Charities Aid
Foundation. The ExxonMobil VIP was set up to celebrate and recognise
the contribution that ExxonMobil employees, Mobil retirees and family
members make to their local communities. It highlights the importance
ExxonMobil places on encouraging citizenship and community activity and
to raise the profile of volunteering as a valued activity. |
| In recent years individuals have chosen
to support Project Peru by running, walking or jumping for us. |
| Sponsored walks: Belfast to Bangor, Bristol to
Bath, Alnmouth to Edinburgh, and the Inca Trail. |
| The Flora London Marathon www.london-marathon.co.uk.
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| The BUPA Great North Run-half marathon
(Newcastle) and The Great South Run-half marathon (Portsmouth) http://www.onrunning.com. |
| UK Bungee Club - Tel: 0700 028 6433. Fax 01992
769 088. |
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Contact
Project Peru to discuss similar ways of helping us.
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We do what we can in our various events and
activities to promote the richness of Peru's culture. To read more
about this see the Arts & Culture section
at the foot of our Peru page.
At a number of our events we are supported
by the presence of llamas, courtesy of West Ridge Camelids.
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