Sunday, 26th November 2023 The Village Hotel, Kingswells FREE ENTRY 12 – 3.00pm Kindly sponsored by: All the family welcome Free tea & coffee for visitors. Home bakes on sale. Raffle! Games station Christmas gifts straight from Kenya All proceeds raised from the sales of GEF stalls, games and raffle will go to our charity...
The GEF Safari Series 2023, 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 are as follows: Sat 26th August - Mel's Union Street Mile races sponsored by MDT International (results below) Sun 17th September - Hazlehead...
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...
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...
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? We were first set up to give kids in Kenya a chance. With numerous projects across Kenya our aim is to help disadvantaged children get a...
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 500 children through education, build 50 houses, start 40 business/farming projects and run a psychosocial support. Speakers have included inspirational mountaineer Jamie Andrew, former world...
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...