On Friday 18 June, 2010, Richard Coe organised a Mufti Day and lunch at the 3663 Head Office in Kingsmead, High Wycombe. He collected £250.59 which was a great effort.

Well Done, Richard.

During May, June and July 2010, Valerie Taylor will be undertaking a fundraising tour around the UK in aid of the Valerie Taylor Trust. The tour also includes a european visit to FCRP-Germany.

Enquiries relating to the Tour should be directed as follows:-
up to 26th June, 2010 : Brian Woodgate, VTT Administrator, on 01622 743011;
from 26th June to 11th July incl.Ben Clackson on 01234 268876 during evenings and weekends only

Congratulations to Susie Ivin for completing the London Marathon in 4hours 13mins 50secs.

Although the marathon is over for another year, you can still sponsor Susie by visiting http://www.justgiving.com/runninghostie

On 25th April 2010, Susie Ivin will be running the Virgin London Marathon to raise funds for VTT. Susie is the daughter of Janet Ivin, a nine time CRP volunteer!

Here’s what Susie has to say about her Mum and CRP -
“My Mum (Janet Ivin) has been undertaking voluntary work every year (apart from one) since October 2000 and will be making her ninth visit to CRP in February this year. I was able to visit Mum at CRP during her visit last year whilst I was on a working flight to Dhaka. This was my second visit and I was impressed by all that I saw. Unfortunately BA no longer fly to Dhaka, so sadly Mum will not be able to take advantage of any more hugely discounted stand-by tickets!!”

To sponsor Susie, please visit http://www.justgiving.com/runninghostie

On 8th November 2009, Denis Ignatjev and Graeme Whitty will run the original Marathon route in Greece (link) to help support the 30th anniversary of CRP. Funds contribute to treatment costs of poor patients at the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

In 2007 Graeme had the opportunity to meet with CRP founder, Valerie Taylor who has dedicated her career to the care, treatment and rehabilitation of the paralysed. Valerie is decorated with numerous awards; amongst many is O.B.E. (Order of the British Empire for her outstanding efforts providing holistic treatment for the paralysed) and also the “Shadhinota Dibosh Podok” the highest civilian award of Bangladesh.

During that trip Graeme had the opportunity to visit the CRP and witness the magnificent work undertaken by Valerie and the CRP overall.

Denis and Graeme like a challenge and in the summer of 2008 climbed the highest mountain in Europe raising money for CRP in the process (link). As we all know what goes up must come down so this time they are focusing on a ground challenge. Please help us raise funds for this most deserving of charitable causes.

Donate via Justgiving - http://www.justgiving.com/30YearsofCRPMarathonMission

Valerie Ann Taylor, founder of the Centre for Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), has been selected for the prestigious Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah Gold Medal Award-2008 in recognition of her outstanding contribution and services to society as well as the distressed humanity, says a press release.

A favourite name in Bangladesh as a saviour of the paralysed as well as distressed people, Taylor spread her noble activities across the country by establishing a service organisation like CRP.

Born in Kent in the United Kingdom, Valerie came to Bangladesh as a physiotherapist in 1969 as a member of Voluntary Service Overseas, an international organisation. She got the citizenship of Bangladesh in 1998.

Source: The Daily Star

Jessica Heslop is going to tandem Skydive in New Zealand in December to raise money for the Valerie Taylor Trust. All funds raised will go to the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) in Bangladesh.

Click on this link for more information - http://www.justgiving.com/JJHeslop-skydive/

The Valerie Taylor Trust would like to thank Orion Primary School for donating £570.00 to the trust.  

These funds were raised throughout the academic year by holding the following events: 

A Christmas art, craft and cake sale, with all items made by the Year 2 classes.

A toy sale in the playground.

A sponsored whole school exercise and fitness event, in which all children were sponsored to complete a range of physical exercise and got to meet Olympic athlete Larry Achike.

A Bollywood dance performance at end of year open-air concert extravaganza!

Catherine Hall, Valerie Taylor Trust Secretary, attended the end of year concert to receive the “Charity Cheque” from the children on behalf of the trust.

Orion Primary School has proved that arranging fundraising events can work well across various age ranges and group sizes. Their contibution will help the Valerie Taylor Trust to acheive our goal of contributing funds to the treatment, rehabilitation and reintegration into the community of disabled people in Bangladesh.

To maximize the success of your own fundrasing events, the Valerie Taylor Trust can supply you with various materials to help raise awareness within the community for both the specifics details of your fundraising event and the reason why your school/group is raising funds.

Please contact the VTT Adminstrator for more information - admin@valerietaylortrust.org

The speech and language therapy scholarship fund is being started in memory of Shanzida Akhter.

Shanzida was one of the first ever students in Bangladesh to study towards a bachelor degree in speech and language therapy. This course has been running since 2004 through the Bangladesh Health Professions Institute at the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) and is affiliated with Dhaka University.

The intention for the scholarship fund is to enable a student/ students who would otherwise be unable to afford the full course fees, to be able to study the speech and language therapy course. This is to honour the memory of Shanzida and her hopes and dreams for the development of speech and language therapy in Bangladesh.

Thank you for your interest and support!

Donations to the fund can be made online via the Valerie Taylor Trust using the justgiving .com website http://www.justgiving.com/shanzidascholarshipfund/

We received an email from Rob Whiting and thought that we would share it with you. It gives a great insight of an initial visit to the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed in Bangladesh

“Hi,

I have recently graduated from Vanderbilt University with my bachelor’s degree and am interning at BRAC in Dhaka. I was referred to CRP by Richard Hubbard of the Basic Needs Program, and I visited your center on July 12. Richard told me what a great place and what unique work the center was doing. He raved about Ms. Valerie Taylor. My visit lived up to the hype, and I really enjoyed the extensive tour I was given. I wrote about it on my blog, which I wanted to share with you. The link is here: http://povertyandbusiness.blogspot.com/.

Thanks!

Rob”