The Hatching of – Bars, Veg and Things Unknown

Ladies and gentlemen,

Jeff and Dith are proud to announce the birth of:

SUSTAINING LIFE

This will be the name of the charity. We have already registered the following domains:

sustaininglife.org.uk which will become the main site
sustaininglife.co.uk
sustaininglife.net

Our allotment project will be called:

PLOTTING TO IMPROVE

This will be our initial venture.

We would like to congratulate everyone who made suggestions, even rude ones. But every competition can only have 1 or 2 winners – unless you are a sports team of course – and, unlike TV phone-ins, these were not pre-picked before the competition started. Therefore our winners are:

Rain
Chas

If you’d like to get in contact, via Facebook, we will send your prizes to you. You will each recieve a copy of The Deafening Sound of Silent Tears. This book is the story of Caring For Life and is being published on Saturday by SCM.

More info will appear soon.

p.s. Does anyone know how to build a website???????

Today is the final day for entries in the Name That Thing game.

We will persue all the options and let you know what we decide later in the week.

IT’S NOT TO LATE TO ENTER……

(Deep breath) Okay, here goes for September.

RESEARCH
- Make further enquiries into the rental of an allotment, with the aim of having secured a plot by the end of this month.
- Have a formal meeting with the leadership of a local Christian organisation that houses and supports ex-offenders. I met the director, by chance(?), in a local Christian bookshop a few weeks ago and he agreed to meet with us in order to discuss our project. It is a matter now of finding a good time to get together, which has proved a little difficult to date. Prayer here, please.
- Continue to have general discussions with relevant people about the needs in the area, although this is a little more secondary now. This is due to the excellent info gained from the SWs last month and the emergence of the allotment plans as a viable first step.

SUPPORT
- Decide on a name for the project (winner to be announced 10th Sept!) The aim will then be to register e-mail and website domain names (Jeff’s job), update the draft support e-mail and send it out (my job).
- Keep you lovely people updated by means of this site.

FUNDRAISING
- Begin to look into sources of funding for the allotment project. I have located one or two possible streams by idly browsing the internet, I just need to get a firm idea of the grant providers worth pursuing.
- Improve on my score of two cycle-to-work sessions this month, aiming for the intended four of last month.

MISC
- I have recently put my name down with the local agricultural college for a course in managing a smallholding (about which I am ridiculously excited!) It starts in November and is of potential long term use. I have an idea of one possible opportunity for honing and using the skills I hope to aquire, as well as a potential forum for passing them on in a therapeutic setting. It is a little tenuous at this stage, though, so I will simply ask you to pray into this area for me. Thanks.

So, that is it for this month. Thanks again for your ongoing support and prayers. Keep watching.

Dith

P.S. If you missed the August summary, it is at the end of the archived material, go and have a look if you wish.