The New Minibus

A number of the trekkers have requested pictures of the new mini bus. Well, here they are - you can download them by clicking on the below links, right clicking with your mouse over the image and choosing the Save As Option to save them to your computer.

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Whiteboards - thumbs up from Sammy!

Hi - its about time someone sent in a blog ... so I'm doing it - to test whether you are still logging on to the site!!

I just wanted to share some great news with TC0907 trekkers, staff, sponsors, supporters etc. At Newick House every year a Statement Review takes place for each child and various people attend, including teachers, parents, speech therapists etc. We attended Sam's review in January with his teacher and Gill Perry.

As you know interactive whiteboards were purchased from TC funds and installed during the Christmas break. The children now benefit from having a whiteboard in each classroom. During the review, we were thrilled to be told that a 'minor miracle' had occurred, in the way Sam (our son) has reacted to the whiteboard. He very quickly learnt how to use one of the 'number run' programmes. Specifically he has to select enough seats so that the Pink Men can jump out of their van, sit down and watch a show (no, I haven't been on the vino). So Sam has to select, drag and drop the correct number of chairs - then the show can begin!! Because this visual tool captivates his attention, he is concentrating longer and learning more and we believe it has prompted more interest in the laptop programmes as well.

Thank you every one again for your wonderful support!

Claire

Trek Press Release from The NAS

The National Autistic Society has issued a press release today about the funds raised for them by the team.Click here to read The NAS press release

Further Trek Fame...

This article appeared in last week's edition of the Mid Sussex Times. Bit of a shame they put £10,000 rather than £100,000 in the first paragraph, but it reads well after that.

Click here for an easy to read version

Gala Dinner

Hi Everyone

Many thanks to everyone who made it last Friday to Brighton for the Gala Dinner - it was a great night and a really special way to celebrate the success of TrekChina0907. As ever it was a team effort and our thanks go to Martin, Paul, Stephanie and Adam for their help.

The flowers and picture were really kind gestures and much appreciated.

It has been an amazing year in many ways and to have done what we did - Raising Awareness, Building Friendships and Achieving Results - has left us feeling very proud (and very tired !) and so pleased that the whole team has made such a difference to both Newick House School and The National Autistic Society.

Hope you all have a great festive season, a happy new year and look forward to keeping in touch in 2008.

Joy and Kevin

our reunion walk

hi all - i've posted the pics from our walk on the 28th... feel free to have a look!

i hope everyone is up for a walk in the new year. i'm certainly going to need some exercise after all the eating and drinking!!!

Christmas Party

Last Friday Adam, Jeremy, Raj, Ken, Pare, Stephanie and I were at the company Christmas Party in London. Never one to miss an opportunity to drink champagne all evening, Christine came along as well. There are some pictures up on Pare's facebook site for those who want to see what happened !

Anyway, many great stories were swapped as we warmed up for next Friday's event. Towards the end of the evening I introduced Joy to our boss who was very complimentary about the whole trek but said he was a little confused by our future plans - "I hear that you are thinking of doing another one in 2009. I spoke to one of the team earlier and he said you were planning to trek in Pinot Grigio, but I think he meant Machu Picchu !!"

I will protect the identity of the person involved and am looking forward to lots more of this sort of thing next week, plus hearing if anyone fancies Peru or elsewhere in 2009. And before anyone asks, no I am not organising it.....

Kevin

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Book Preview

The book - is now available to buy online.
Shipping is a bit expensive for single copies - and is relatively cheaper if you order more than one copy at a time.
If you are not in the UK there is an option to change the currency (down in the lower right hand side of the order page).
They are on sale at list price.

gala dinner

Hi All,
I am currently trying to collate a music list for the gala disco. Any suggestions/requests that people have, could you please post them on the blog?!
Hope that's alright and that everyone is well.
Look forward to seeing you all on the 21st!!!!!!! Get those dancing shoes on!
Lots of love,
Linz xxx

The story of "Kevin's Trekkers".

The proof copy arrived today - TrekChina0907: the story of "Kevin's Trekker's" - and it's lookin' good (even if I say so). Check out the video...

There are one or two things to change before the final version, typos and such, but it's 98% there!

Vital statistics: Hardback with dust cover, 194 lovely 8x11 inch pages, 400 delicious photos, and many more memories than you can count! And yours, madam, not for 60 quid, not for 50, not even for 40....no madam this lovely object, that would grace the coffee table of Buckingham Palace itself, will be yours for just £29.95 - delivered! The ideal Christmas present - buy one, buy two, buy half a dozen and give them to all your friends!! (Ed: that's enough selling, stick to taking pictures!)

The book will be available to buy online at the end of next week - but will cost more if you order that way. To hit the price above, we'll order in bulk. More info in an email I'll send each Trekker.

Ken

PS
A DVD/CD of all of the photos and some video clips is just about ready too. It has way more photos than the book, but not so handy to look at and might just baffle granny!

PPS
I reserve the right to round the price up by 5p!

TrekChina0907 mentioned in the NAS 'Insight' Newsletter

The NAS recently mentioned TrekChina0907 in their "Insight" newsletter. They gave us a good write up, although a small typo means that it looks like we did even more of a brilliant job than we have done! Click to here read the whole newsletter: NAS%20Insight%20article%20Nov%202007.pdf

TrekChina0907 in BP's Horizon Magazine

BP's global magazine "Horizon" - which reaches thousands of people across the world - ran a two page spread on TrekChina0907. We were delighted to get the extra coverage and be recognised as newsworthy enough!

Our hope is that some who read the article will be inspired to use the same web technology we used so successfully to keep our followers back home connected and engaged. It would be good to see what we created re-used by other worthy causes.

Click on the pictures to read the article.