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May 2010

Small Steps School for Parents helps parents to help their own children who have cerebral palsy or other forms of motor and sensory impairment.  For more information go to www.smallstepssfp.org.uk or to make a donation, please
click here. On behalf of all of Small Steps children, families and staff, thank you for your ongoing support.

Welcome to May's e-news

 Thanks to everyone for all the great feedback about our first e-news - it's lovely to hear from you! Do keep in touch by email or visit Small Steps on Facebook or go to the Small Steps website. In this edition of the Small Steps e-news we have exciting news about Anita's nomination for the 'Most Dynamisante Woman of the Year', free fundraising tips and the very latest sporting updates! Welcome to the second Small Steps e-newsletter...


Dates for your diary! diary

Don't forget to visit our cake stall at Richmond's May Fair on Saturday 8 May. If you can't make it on the day, could you bake a cake beforehand? Let us know if you can help! pinkcakepinkcakepinkcakepinkcakepinkcake

Sign up for the next Parents Workshop on Tuesday 25th May at 7pm on 'Disability Awareness' presented by our very own Anita! A glass of wine and a chance to chat to other parents too!... Free to all Small Steps Parent's... Let us know if you can join us.

Small Steps will have a stall at the Kew Fete at Kew Green on Saturday 19th June. Please let us know if you can help out at all that day... or just pop along and show your support.

Come and see us during our 'Open Week' 12th - 16th July (see below for details).

The Small Steps AGM is on 8th July 2010 at Greenmead School.

Kingstonian Football Club Fundraiser on Saturday 24th July... Lynn Jacobs, (Georgii's Mum) is organising a party fundraiser with DJ & dancing, buffet and some live music too! At Kingstonian Football Club, Kingston, Surrey - tickets £15. So put your glad rags on... and party in aid of Small Steps! Contact the office for more details.

Calling all Small Steps 'old friends'!!

Did you attend Small Steps in the past?
We are holding an 'Open Week' 12th - 16th July and hope that as many of you as possible will pop in to our 'new home' at Greenmead School. Have a coffee with us and a chat, catch up on all the gossip! It would be lovely to see all our old friends! Open door policy... 8.30am to 4.30pm all that week.

Launch of "Small Change for Small Steps" ! coins coins

Isn't it amazing how the pennies can pile up? Everyone has small change just lying around... so why not help Small Steps by collecting your loose change and donating it to us?

We are producing a Small Steps 'home' collection box which can sit on your shelf... you can pop your pennies in from time to time, and when it's full return it to us. Click here to request your Small Change for Small Steps box.

Sandblasters amazing achievement in the Marathon des Sables!

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The Sandblasters, Steve, Colin and Paul (Sam's Dad) are raising a huge amount of money for us by running a series of 250km ultra marathons in the hottest, coldest, driest and windiest parts of the planet. They have just completed the Marathon des Sables in Morocco. A gruelling 12 day, 230km marathon across the Sahara Desert. All contestants must carry their own food and equipment and often suffer from heat exhaustion, dehydration, scorpion bites... etc! This year the race was far tougher for the team than previous years. The course was harder, longer and the weather was hot and humid making it an ordeal. If you'd like to read about the amazing experience and extreme hardships the team had to endure click here to read Steve's account during the race. We'd like to congratulate them all for a fantastic achievement and for continuing to support Small Steps in such amazing way. Please, please show your support by sponsoring them if you can. You can do this here online on the Just Giving website.


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Lots of sporty endeavours have been taking place recently and all in support of Small Steps! Congratulations and gold medals all round to Mark Allan (April's dad) for completing the Reading half marathon; well done and wunderbar to Ellie Loughnan (deputy Head at Brandlehow School) for taking part in the Berlin half marathon and a great big cheer to Brandlehow School, especially Leela and Arun Newmark www.justgiving.com/Brandlehow4SmallSteps, for doing a fun run. Between them, over £1000 has already been raised for Small Steps!

Congratulations to Grant Davidson (Amber's dad) who ran the London Marathon in aid of Small Steps on April 24th... he reached the finish line in 4 hours 58 mins ... and has raised over £2000 for Small Steps. A fantastic achievement! Thanks so much!

Thank you!

A huge thank you to the Putney Magpies Aussie Rules Football Club who hosted a Charity Golf Classic on Saturday 10th April at The Central London Golf Centre. Over £1200 was raised on the day with 36 members taking part.

Thanks to everyone who collected a green token or two when shopping at Waitrose, as a result Small Steps recently collected a cheque for £300 from the Southside branch as part of the Community Matters scheme. Thank you also to everyone who has and continues to bring in Sainsburys Active Kids Vouchers and Tesco for Schools vouchers... please keep collecting... every voucher counts!

Thank you to our very good friend, Charlotte Grobien, who recently donated a further £2000 to Small Steps, after receiving a Tea Towel from us... so kind, thank you!

Nicholas Cella and his parents have kindly asked their friends to make donations to Small Steps in honour of Nicholas' 1st birthday... Michael Kidwell (Eva's Godfather), who has signed up for the BHF London to Brighton Bike Ride on 20th June in aid of Small Steps... Sian Biddlecombe (May's Mum's friend) who has committed to running the 2010 Adidas Women's 5k challenge on 5th September for Small Steps...thank you all so much for your support!
 

Small Steps, School for Parents
Greenmead School
St Margaret's Crescent
Putney
London
SW15 6HL
REG CHARITY NO. 1089161
Tel: 020 8704 5935
info@smallstepssfp.org.uk
www.smallstepssfp.org.uk
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London Triathlon 2010

A team of 15 parents, friends and staff are training hard in preparation for doing the triathlon on the 7th and 8th of August in aid of Small Steps. It will be at the Excel centre in Docklands and we’d love as many families and friends to come and cheer them on as possible! You can also support the team by sponsoring them at www.justgiving.com/sssfp. Individual runners have their own pages set up. Please support the team if you can!

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Will Anita be Clarins Most Dynamisante Woman of the Year?

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A huge thank you for all your fantastic comments in support of Anita's nomination to be Clarins 'Most Dynamisante Woman of the Year'. Anita was one of only 7 women short-listed for the award...out of thousands of applications! We have just had a letter to tell us, unfortunately Anita didn't win the Award, but Clarins have kindly donated £1000 to Small Steps in recognition of the great work we do!

Fundraising Fashion Show!
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A range of French fashion will be on show courtesy of French Designers Captain Tortue on Wednesday 12th May at The Shoe Station, Kew Parade, Kew. Some of the funds raised at the event will be donated to Small Steps.

Could you fundraise for Small Steps?

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Let us know if you, your office or your school would like to raise money for Small Steps - we'd love to feature the event in our e-news.

Fundraise for Small Steps while you shop online...

If you ALREADY shop online, why not help good causes at no extra cost from purchases you would make anyway. EASY FUNDRAISING provide a FREE service where you can shop with your favourite online stores and at no extra cost raise funds for Small Steps. You still shop directly with each retailer as you would normally, but simply by using the links from the Easy Fundraising site first, each purchase you make will generate a cashback donation to Small Steps. For more information or to register go to the Easy Fundraising website. Thank you!