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BBC News
11-04-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Bury schoolgirl, 8, embarks on year-long charity mission
An eight-year-old girl says she feels "joyful" that her year-long series of charity fundraising challenges will help those in from Bury in Greater Manchester, has vowed to raise money throughout 2025 for a wide range of causes close to her include walking 124 miles (200km) over 40 days as part of the Big Lent Walk with her dog Cookie, and completing a sponsored swim in May."Raising money for other people is making me feel really joyful and happy," said Tahlia. 'Super proud' Tahlia started her charity quest in January when she asked friends and family to make a donation to Bury Hospice rather than buying her presents."Before my birthday, I asked my mum if [I can raise money for] charities that care for the world instead," she schoolgirl's kind-hearted decision helped to raise more than £500 for the hospice, which provides palliative and end-of-life February, she saved her pocket money to sponsor Yorik the goat at Bleakholt Animal she is walking 3.1 miles (5km) each day with her canine companion to raise funds for CAFOD (Catholic Agency For Overseas Development) as part of the Big Lent Walk. Next month, she plans to complete a sponsored swim to raise funds for a stroke was inspired to swim a mile for charity after her grandad suffered a stroke in January 2021 at the age of mum Vicky said she was "super proud" of her daughter's fundraising efforts. Listen to the best of BBC Radio Manchester on Sounds and follow BBC Manchester on Facebook, X, and Instagram. You can also send story ideas via Whatsapp to 0808 100 2230.
BBC News
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Alvaston head teacher's hen-durance charity forfeit for pupils
A head teacher is set to walk 3.6 miles (5.8km) dressed as a chicken with a colleague who will wear a fried egg costume, after making a fundraising pledge to pupils. Graham Lobb promised children at St John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy in Derby they would take on the challenge on Friday, if they managed to raise £1,000 for Lobb will walk from the school in Alvaston to St Mary's Church in the city centre and be accompanied by colleague Nathalie than being cooped up inside, the schoolchildren have been walking to reach their fundraising target for CAFOD, an international Catholic aid agency. "It's about having some fun with fundraising, the children have really enjoyed the walking and the fact that myself and Miss Woodings are going to dress up and do this, it's creating a bit of excitement around school," Mr Lobb money raised by the children for CAFOD will go towards chickens for vulnerable families in Kenya, to provide produce they can sell to earn a living, and the charity will provide training on how to look after the birds. 'Looking silly' Each class at St John Fisher has been set the target of walking 211 miles (339.5km) the distance between nine jubilee churches in the Diocese of extra 200 miles was walked across the whole school to bring the grand total to 1,411 miles - the distance from the school to the Vatican."The whole school has been fundraising so it's close to 190 children, so roughly each child needs five people to sponsor them £1."I didn't feel it was an unrealistic target amount with the current challenges that everyone's got with the cost of living," Mr Lobb said colleagues and friends had pledged to make up the difference if students struggled to reach the target of £1,000."They all want to see me looking silly dressed as a chicken and to be brutally honest I think my mum will also be doing the same thing as well, and my wife, because they want to see me dressed up, they want to see me looking silly," Mr Lobb said.
Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Tributes to man killed in Nairobi motorcade crash
A British man killed in a suspected hit-and-run involving a vehicle in the Kenyan president's motorcade was "incredibly generous" and "always pleasant", a friend has said. Edgar Riches, 79, from Poole, Dorset, died on Thursday after he was struck on a road in Kenya's capital, Nairobi. He had been visiting relatives in the country when he was fatally injured, the BBC was told. Police detained a driver, since bailed, who is thought to have been driving a support vehicle at the back of President William Ruto's official convoy. Mr Riches worshipped at Poole's St Joseph and St Walburga and Our Lady of Fatima Churches, was a long-standing member of the town's Conservative Association and raised money for Catholic aid charity CAFOD. Ann Stribley, the president of Poole Conservative Association, said she had known Mr Riches for about 50 years. "He was private, quiet person but incredibly generous and if he said he was going to do something, he always did it," she said. "There's a total sense of shock and loss. He will be greatly missed. I shall remember him as a kind, quiet and thoughtful, always pleasant, individual. "He was a huge benefit to the association for many years and we will be lucky to see his like again." "[Mr Riches] was an active fundraiser and organised many social events, fundraising for CAFOD to help a school in Kenya," a church representative, who did not want to be named, said. "He went every year to visit his sister and nephew." There has been uproar on social media following Thursday's incident. While Kenyans are accustomed to roads being cleared for the presidential motorcade, some have questioned why the convoy was so big and moving at such speed. Kenyan police said Mr Riches' next-of-kin have been informed. You can follow BBC Dorset on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram. British man killed by president's convoy in Kenya hit-and-run
