Fundraising

What better way to cheer up Blue Monday than with cake. All sorts of cakes! Thanks to the exceptional culinary skill and generosity of our fellow Year 1 colleagues, we were able to offer an assortment of delectable delights in today’s bake sale. From fairy-dusted cupcakes to lemon drizzle slice and raspberry chocolate fudge cake, […]

As Christmas is the season of goodwill (and good eating) we decided to host a cake sale to raise funds for the link. We asked students from the College of Medicine to bake for us and had an absolutely phenomenal response. We had hundreds of cakes and biscuits including a few Christmas classics.. mince pies

On November 23rd Swansea Gambia Link hosted a fundraising house party which turned out to be a huge success. The party was held at the house of two of the committee members and was given a “Lion King” theme, which involved the house being kitted out in animal print décor, East African music playing and

2012/13 was a mixed year for the Swansea-Gambia Link. On the one hand, we raised nearly £5,000 through a combination of the Auction of Promises (brilliantly auctioneer-ed by Paul Jones) and a number of us running the Llanelli Half Marathon in early March. A huge thank-you to all those who gave, ran, donated and bid

Thank you all so much for your wonderful support of the Cake Sales so far this year. It has been tremendous! Thanks to the sales, we were able to buy 10 copies of the World Health Organisation‘s Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children to donate to the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital in Banjul. This

On the night of Wednesday 28th January, the Swansea-Gambia Link held its largest fundraising event of the year with the second annual ‘Auction of Promises’. The Cricketers’ had been transformed for the evening from a local Swansea pub into an all singing, all dancing, cabaret themed auction room to host the occasion. The entire event