We want to say a huge thank you to our new Purple Champions Simon Lewis, Amy Piumarta and Estelle Keeber who connected us with Kim Willis from Phoenix Features - who arranged for Jane to speak with Patrick Hill from the Mirror Group who wrote this excellent article about our ...
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  The new school year has started and we are so excited to be able to give our wonderful students, their school bags filled with all the school supplies they need a huge thank you to School in a Bag for their generous donation again this year. Also included were vouchers for the children ...
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New Sports Programmes started by Jomar, one our school students who graduated from secondary school in 2017 and got his love of football when he first joined our football team at the tender age of 8.        Jomar is training under our College and University Scholarship Programme to become a ...
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       On the 31st May Jane met with the UK Ambassador to the Philippines Daniel Pruce and the Consul General Martin O'Neil at the Ambassadors house in Manila.  It's great to have them endorsing our work. Daniel Pruce recorded this statement for us: ...
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The area where our families live in Tondo is a squatter area, recently the land has been sold and the government has built new housing 4 hours away from Manila for qualifying parents. Although the new housing is welcome it comes at an extremely disruptive time when some of our students are ...
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A new video photography club has been started this month by Laurie Hedges (lauriehedges.com) a Brit and professional video photographer who sat next to Jane (our CEO) on the plane on one of her journeys to Manila. After a long discussion they agreed that if PCF could raise funds for equipment ...
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The Fathers New Shoe Making Project has been a project in the making for 12 months and the men are now making really good quality sandals. The dump site where the men worked collecting plastic and cardboard for recycling closed late 2016/2017 and hundreds of men lost their already meagre ...
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We would like to introduce you all to our rather extraordinary marathon runner Rod Sharp. Rod decided that to celebrate his 70th birthday he was going to fulfil a lifelong ambition of running the London Marathon (his third and he has promised his wife final marathon!) luckily for us he will be ...
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At the Purple Community Fund, we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy, we wanted to explain to you when and why we collect personal information about people and how we use it. How do we collect information from you? We obtain information about you when you use our website, for ...
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