The Royal Parks Half marathon took place on Sunday 9 October. 16,000 runners, gloriously sunny Autumn weather, lovely London parks. Four runners ran the marathon in order to raise money for the GRCT – Kofo Oyeleye, Colleen Theron, Jonathan Bates and Catherine Michell. Almost £4,000 was raised. Well done runners and […]
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Thankfully the rain stayed away for the GRCT’s 10th Anniversary Tea held on Saturday! The tea was an opportunity to express our gratitude to our supporters, whose generosity makes such a difference to the health and education of thousands of South African children. Penny Fleming also formally “handed over the […]
The winners of the third annual Knysna Sanlam Awards were announced last night, at a gala event in South Africa. The e’Pap Children’s Feeding Project, whom we are proud to support, won the Local Charity and NPO Award. This is well deserved recognition of their work; the project now feeds […]
Coffee mornings are a very simple way of raising money and it resonates so well with the GRCT ethos of building community here while feeding children there. Please let us know if one of our trustees could help you run one. Here is news regarding some of the coffee mornings […]
This year, the GRCT began funding the feeding of e’Pap to extremely needy children in the sprawling settlements of Hout Bay outside Cape Town. Since June, the GRCT has been providing e’Pap for The Little Angels crèche in the fishing village of Hangberg, where some 14,000 people live. Keith Bull, […]
For nearly 10 years we have been supporting Shelley and Peter Godsell and their team on the Garden Route, as they feed more than 4,000 children a bowl of e’Pap on each school day. Shelley reports that: “It is always heartwarming to see the health of the children improve after […]
Catherine Boobbyer reports from Vryberg this month, bringing us up to date with the feeding programme which is run by Tiger Kloof School: e’Pap feeding has now started in earnest. The children are given a cup of it to drink as, after a few experiments, this seems to be the […]
Students from the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth recently volunteered to paint playground games, at a local school for children with autism. The paint and materials were funded by the GRCT. The pictures below show children enjoying another painted playground in Port Elizabeth, this time at a school for […]