An Invitation to Celebrate

With July 5th next marking just-one‘s unofficial 10th birthday I’d like to take this opportunity to invite our friends and supporters from around the world to help us mark this somewhat momentous occasion by joining in our impending celebrations. We realise that simple matters of geography and the generally high cost of long-haul flights obviously mean that the vast majority of you won’t actually be able to join us in person, but we’re nonetheless hopefully that many of you will be willing and able to at least join us in spirit on this very special day.

If, like many folks, you like nothing better than an excuse to party then perhaps our cheeky birthday wish that we’ll be able to encourage as many friends and supporters as possible to use the occasion to kindly engage in some much needed fundraising on our behalf, then Saturday, July 5th next may well be the perfect opportunity for such a celebration…

A fund-raising BBQ with family and friends if the weather permits, or maybe an indoor coffee morning or afternoon tea party if you’re bound by rain patterns similar to Kathmandu’s monsoon. Invite a few friends ’round for dinner and explain the logic of the 10-candled cake you sell them for desert. Just 1% of your business’ profits our big day, or a quick whip-around amongst your colleagues at work and kindly donated in lieu of a birthday card. Suggest a sponsored sleepover or silence-athon or whatever to your own kids, or support these two brave young ladies who’ve already committed to jumping out of a plane in support of our work, or follow their lead and arrange to do likewise! Maybe a collection bucket on the bar counter of your local for the evening, or spend the night at home with the telly and simply make a once-off donation of the few quid you’ve saved.

The potential suggestions are as endless as the actual possibilities, but you’ll know best yourself just what you’ll be able to undertake on behalf of just-one and help our second decade start off on a positive note! As it’s good to be able to explain to people what you’re raising the money for, you might find this 3-minute film from last year helpful in that regard. There are another few films we had made over the years that can be found here that could also be of use if time permits and you’ll find information on the various ways to get money to us here on our Make a Donation page.

No need to RSVP but we would absolutely love to hear from you. so please feel free to share news of what you might be planning to do in our honour. It would be great too if you could help us spread the word wide and far. We’ve a facebook page here just waiting to be liked and shared, and the more people that know of this here website and sign-up for updates the better, so please be sure you’re as loud and vocal as you like about your support for all that just-one does! We certainly appreciate it and think that you’ve got every right to be proud of it too – especially when it might encourage others to do likewise!

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