Good Causes

A CHARITY ambassador is urging people to think carefully about what they give as Christmas presents after seeing how unique gifts and training help people in drought-stricken Ethiopia.
Jan Lowe, 51, from Little Kingshill, made a trip to see how the Send a Cow charity teaches poor farmers to make the best use of their limited resources.
The civil engineer, spent a fortnight in the African country with six other supporters where the charity has been providing donkeys, tree saplings to produce orchards and apples, and teaching agricultural techniques.

YOUNGSTERS at Prestwood Junior School made Harvest donations with a difference in a bid to help some of the poorest people in the world.
Instead of collecting food, the pupils gave away their shoes which they had grown out of, to be sent to people in Africa.

IAIN Rennie Hospice at Home held a successful street collection in the village on Saturday, September 5.
The charity raised £294.07 and would like to thank all those who donated.

TWO cycling enthusiasts took to their bikes in a 300-mile challenge to in a bid to make their church more environmentally-friendly.
Will Dixon, 14, and Helen Biggerstaff, 44, rode through gales during the ride of their lives to raise funds for a £42,000 renewable energy project at St Peter & St Paul Parish Church in Great Missenden.

A LITTLE Missenden man, his two friends and a dog have completed their charity quest to recreate an epic adventure on the River Thames.
Jeff Dominy, 62, a retired banker, from the south Bucks village, and friends Nigel Daley, 40, and Noel Gregory, 63, took on the challenge to row 85 miles in a week from Surrey to Oxford.

YOUNG people are being given a chance to help their careers get off the ground by applying for grants.
Great Missenden Church of England School's charitable trust is inviting under 25s who live within the village's parish or past pupils of the school to come forward for financial assistance.

A LITTLE Missenden man is set to recreate an epic novel in which three men and their dog have adventures on the River Thames.
Retired banker Jeff Dominy, 62, and two of his friends Nigel Daley, 62, of Chorleywood, and Noel Gregory, 40, of Lyme Regis, will attempt to row 85 miles in a week to recreate author Jerome K Jerome's book 'Three men in a boat', in aid of a cancer charity.

Businessman Nick Hayes is the driving force behind a charitable initiative called the Scum Run, a 3,500 mile drive around Europe.
Mr Hayes, 34, of Fairacres, Prestwood, will be joined en route by a friend and fellow entrepreneur, Dave Lewin, 34, of Ridgeway, Chesham.
Both men are mustard keen on the venture which kicks off on Thursday, April 16, and they are prepared to travel wherever the organisers send them.

A Little Missenden man is spending precious time running daily from Carnaby Street to leafy Bucks, a feat which takes him five and a half hours to achieve each time.
City headhunter Ed King is gearing up take part in the formidable Marathon des Sables event in Morocco at the end of March.
Mr King, 37, who works in Central London, is going to take part in the challenge along with business partner Guy Steel and the aim is to raise at least £20,000 for leukemia research.

This year's eighth annual XP Support Group annual camp was the best yet, according to founding trustee Sandra Webb.
Every February young sufferers of the rare condition Xeroderma Pigmentosum or XP meet at a Christian retreat near Marlow for a restorative weekend break.
The weekend's are a combination of fun for the youngsters, who are aged from 18 months to 19, and an opportunity for parents to meet with health care professionals and to learn about the latest work being done to treat XP.