Our supporters

We really appreciate our whole community and support network but would like to say a special thanks to just some of the many special supporters who have given us their time, expertise, advice and donations in kind.

we love our supporters

In no particular order:

1. Hazel Buck (My Mum): Not just Lucy’s mum but an ideas woman.
2. Daddy Buck: Long suffering and amazing.
3. Bryony Weaver: Support and friendship and a West London roof over Lucy’s head.
4. Will Geddes from the ICP Group: Risk Assessment and Security Analysis.
5. Mark Williams-Thomas: wrote our Child Protection Policy.
6. Ros Coward and Miranda Glasser: filmed the inaugural “Undress”.
7. Fraser Simpson: setting up the charity and generally being a star from Day Zero.
8. Sally Braithwaite & Jo Ralling: believing in the project and signing on the dotted line.
9. Michelle Lawrence: Going out to Africa, being a wingman and fundraising queen.
10. Kirsty Stephenson, Matthew Knight & Nick Hall: for being our digital dream team.
11. Sean Coleman for providing digital expertise and helping us write the first ever proposal.
12. Jerry Davison: for agreeing to be our Financial Director and writing a 5-year financial plan.
13. James Armson: for writing the longest, most detailed cost report anyone has ever written (in our opinion)
14. Dan Matthews: for invaluable business advice over the past last year.
15. Dominic Taylor: 65 amazing designs by students from the University of Bath Dept of Architecture.
16. Elizabeth Kilbey: our child psychology expert.
17. Andrew Bloch: our PR Expert.
18. Jeremy Cornford: our lovely treasurer.
19. Our Community Fundraising Team: Sharon Howard, Kate Kong, Jean Whitehead, Julie Kitchin & Jan Steel.
20. Ber McGrath: Our ‘woman in Uganda’.
21. Bruno Jones and Andrew Wood at Endemol for designing our brilliant logo.
22. Chris Ingram & Toby Lott: Business Advice.
23. Sue Whitehead: Initial logo research, advice and inviting all her Facebook friends to join our group.
24. Adil Abrar & David McCandless: Creative Brainstorm.
25. Richard Osman, Tim Hincks, Clare Pickering & Lucas Church: the Endemol connection.
26. Polly Buck: Sister and master formatter.
27. Cherie Josephs: For contacts, advice and friendship.
28. Brian Waller: Invaluable social work advice.
29. Ben Taylor: For persuading his brother to help us out.
30. Lisa Howells: Sub editor at Closer who has forsaken a lot of lunch breaks for this project.
31. Mary Mays: Medical and set up advice.
32. Claire Oliver: HR advice.
33. Robin Stafford: Business advice.
34. Sarah Niblock: PR advice.
35. Tracy Wright & Stiofan DeBurca: Accountancy advice.
36. Sylvia Tidy-Harris: Support and advice.
37. Jo Hardcastle: Medical advice.
38. Sonja Hadejorn:For doing an amazing job out in Uganda running the Mukisa Foundation. We can’t wait to work in partnership with you.
39. Dennis Owaraga: Our lovely lawyer in Uganda.
40. Norah Owaraga: Our very well connected adviser in Uganda.
41. Dr Catherine Ndekera: For all the support and help you have given us over the last 6 months.
42. Amy Fallon, Lucy Wilcox, Ollie Bartlett, Jake Taylor, Vaughn Dagnell, James Abadi, Nell Brooker, Lucy Waller, Lucy Crofts, Phil Renn, Dylan Chase and Hannah Thomas for all offering their TV expertise.
43. Simon Andrews: For agreeing to join our team and for ideas and advice
44. Deb Khan: for organising the dinner at The Spectator offices and offering to help with Lucy’s elevator pitch
    
45. Matthew D’Ancona: for hosting the digital dinner at The Spectator offices and for agreeing to become our patron
46. Augustus Coke: Contacts and experiences living in Uganda
47. Mary Dicker: Social Work advice
48. Rob Common from the brilliant charity HOPE for Children. We can’t wait to work with you in Uganda.
49. David Senior: Invitation to Raising Funds From The Rich
50. David Gale: For the generous offer of advising us on sustainable architecture.
51. Colette Callus: For agreeing to mobilise the TV industry
52. Ian Humphries: Copy writing and a brilliant idea
53. Twinkle & Basil: Our favorite barristers
54. Barbara at Sanyu Babies Home for agreeing to let us use the footage of the babies. To contact the home in Uganda email: <mailto:href=”barbara@sanyubabies.com”>barbara@sanyubabies.com</a>
55. Julien Buckley: Advice on kit and for becoming ourprogramme manager for sports fundraising ideas
56. Andrew & Angela Donovan: Friendship and Faith
57. John Elms: Pre School advice
58. Hannah Malone: copy writing
59. Luke Price: Editing Mukisa Video.
60. Jonny Marfleet: Architectural research
61. Uncle Post Production for providing us with a free edit – Jack Edney, Jamie Shemeld & Ed Holt
62. Ad Ahmed and Max Newson for producing and editing the City Boy VT
63. Tim Baker for kindly letting us use a track by T Minus 50 from their album Digital Scars on the City Boy VT
64. Ginger TV for lending us a tripod at the last minute
65. Janet Cooper at Linklaters for printing our business cards
66. Deborah Meaden: For invaluable business advice and making Lucy’s week
67. Greg McKinney and Robin Block at Red Sky Vision for the Spectator VT
68. The folks at Flip for lending us a pocket sized Flip Ultra video camera to record our dinner at The Spectator
69. Howard Lake for his wonderful blog about us and fabulous advice
70. Martin Shaw for giving us some fab fundraising advice
71. The incredible response from the TV industry (50 emails and counting) to volunteer their skills and expertise in Uganda
72. Jude Winstanley for posting our TV Volunteer ad on The Unit List on Facebook
73. Amelia Torode for writing nice things about us
74. James Serafinowicz  from www.funnyordie.co.uk and the Dawson Bros. for their very generous offer to produce a short film for our Buy a Brick campaign
75. Graphic Designer Georgie Hewitt for her offer to design the Undress For Uganda promotional material
76. Tom Chapman from Headstream for giving us invaluable widget advice.
77. Geraldine Pollock and Jeannie Ward for their help with the UFU promotional copy
78. Jane Dicker from the International HUG Foundation for advice on setting up our Nursery
79. Rupert Miller for advice on costings and set up in Uganda
80. Jules for writing nice things about us on Jules TV
81. Sarah Eddy for starting the great tagline debate on our Facebook group
82. Ellie Howell, Kirsty Stephenson, David McCandless, Hazel Buck, Peter Mallett, Julien Buckley, Jerry Davison, Tom Harle, Julia Bellis and Malinda Kaur for suggesting brilliant taglines
83. Jo Evans for inviting us along to Rotherfield St Martins, and Marjorie and Doreen for talking to us on camera about the Internet
84. Mark James for his fabulous research on charity motorbike rides in Africa. Maybe Charity caravanning is the way forward!
85. Mr Hughes and Mr Baker at Lucy’s old school Beacon Community College.
86. Jenny Whitham and Malinda Kaur for their generous offers to help fundraise in Leeds
87. Ellie Howell, Joe Bashford, Nikki Bain and Sarah Eddy for setting up a Community fundraising group in Truro
88. Katy Muncer for helping us organise the Undress For Uganda campaign
89. Hannah Jones for organising a youth focus group and for becoming our programme manager for youth initiatives
90. Lucy’s great Aunty Pat for offering to make 50 teddy bears
91. Colette Callus and Emily Lawson for setting up and prepping the TV open evening
92. Emma Pugsley for helping me overcome Lucy’s fear of public speaking and helping me with her oratory skills. Still a long way to go…
93. Lauren Havard for joining our fundraising team and helping us with Community Fundraising
94. Hannah Jones, Sophie Phillips, Chris Chater, Matt Burton, Alex Colville and Tom Lawson for taking part in our focus group and giving us some love and time
95. Justin Scales at the Kings Arms pub in Rotherfield for making the Child’s i Foundation their charity of the year
96. Andy at Vodafone for giving us a great deal on our price plan
97. The lovely folks at BlackBerry for giving us a BlackBerry Storm.
98. Luke Savvas, Alastair McQuater and Andrew Norman at Buzzacott chartered accountants for their very useful and informative Tax Update Seminar
99. A big thank you to James Smith, co-founder of the School of Social Entrepreneurs, UnLtd and founder of Monkey Mosaic for his invaluable advice on being a social entrepreneur
100. Our buy a brick team – Julia Bellis (programme manager), Chris Thorpe, Patrick Sinclair, Andrew McDonough, Rory Macdonald (developers). Many of whom we met at SI Camp (thank you Katee Hui for introducing us)
101. The Golden Manor Medicine Show (Adam Adler, Jules Fuller, Ali Hawkins and Neil Webster) for donating proceeds of their gig to the charity
102. Kirsty Mitchell for organising and hosting our first speed-dating event
103. Brent Simmonds for organising a charity golf day in Japan
104. Donna Dimitriou for donating jewellery to sell at our Undress for Uganda events

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