Mark your calendars for next year’s event: Sunday 1st December 2024 Village Hotel, Kingswells ~~~ We are taking bookings for stallholders, if you would like more information please email kayleigh@gathimbaedwardsfoundation.org 2023 review We were delighted to have our Christmas Fayre back for the first time since the pandemic. It was held in November 2023 at...
Our biennial fundraising dinners offer inspiring speakers, great food, live music, unique prizes and more. To date, they have raised at total of £141,760 which has helped us to support over 600 children through education, build 54 houses, start 40 business/farming projects, deliver 50 seminars for over 3,000 attendees, provide 310 beds and run ongoing...
The GEF Safari Series of races, licensed by Scottish Athletics, gives runners the chance to compete over 3 different distances whilst also receiving a unique Kenyan safari animal medal at each event. Race dates for the 2024 series: Hazlehead 5k and kids 1k (headline sponsorship available) - Saturday 22nd June Starting with the kids race...
Our quarterly quiz nights in Aberdeen are a chance to get your friends together for a bite to eat and a bit of fun while raising money for kids in Kenya and Aberdeenshire. The first in our series of four GEF quizzes, sponsored by Ledingham Chalmers Solicitors, took place at the Ashvale Restaurant in Feb 2019...
Our inaugural Ladies Lunch, kindly headline sponsored by The Property Duo, took place at Union Kirk in Aberdeen on Fridy 16th September 2022 and raised an incredible £10,000! With a focus on female empowerment, the room was full of 130 strong women who were all there to support girls and women in Kenya who, due to...
Choose Gathimba Edwards Foundation (GEF) as your Charity of the Year and help us make a very real difference to children in Kenya and Aberdeenshire. Why Gathimba Edwards Foundation? Firstly, thank you for your time, we know it is precious. We are here to make sure our partnership is as simple as possible for you. ...
Gideon Gathimba and Myles Edwards have shown what can be achieved when you have a desire and determination to change the lives of others. We would welcome the opportunity to share our story and show how what we have learned and achieved can be applied to any area of life. Myles’ talk “Running for your...
Gathimba Edwards Foundation was initially set up to provide education and shelter for children and their families. However, following community engagement we decided to do more in assisting families to become self sufficient. With this in mind we developed the Two Feet business start-up initiative which up to 2022 enabled more than 30 families across...