Category: Fundraising
New REQUEST Foundation Charity Launched
As one of the legacy objectives of the project we have set up an entirely new charity – the REQUEST FOUNDATION – to administer the request fund to assist young people with polar research & expeditions – the fund now has an entirely new Just Giving page to keep the project going…
Polar Auction
Our 4th Polar Auction is all scheduled for end of April 2023. This is to raise money for the legacy fund set up by the Kent Scouts REQUEST2021 Antarctica Project in 2021 to extend our educational outreach activities about Antarctica as well as to support more young people in Scouting and Girlguiding to do polar research and expeditions.
Polar related Auction items welcomed – please email alan.noake@kentscouts.org.uk
Winning bids outside of the UK will be expected to agree a fair additional delivery cost donation.
Feel free to browse in advance.
The auction will run from 9am on Saturday 22nd April to 9pm on Sunday 30th April 2023.
Kent County Scout Council Charity Registration No. 303471
‘DREAM INTO REALITY’ THE BOOK
‘DREAM INTO REALITY‘ THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED WRITE UP OF THE REQUEST2021 PROJECT IS NOW AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE. ALL PROFITS GOING TO THE LEGACY REQUEST FUND TO SUPPORT MORE YOUNG PEOPLE IN SCOUTING AND GIRLGUIDING TO UNDERTAKE POLAR RESEARCH & EXPEDITIONS.
Written by the team in their own words in the six months since they returned from Antarctica.
ONLINE POLAR AUCTION
The REQUEST FUND Auction (jumblebee.co.uk)
The auction will run from 9am on Friday 1st July to 9pm on Sunday 10th July 2022.
All profits will go to the legacy REQUEST FUND. This is the fund set up by the Kent Scouts REQUEST2021 Antarctica Project in 2021 to extend our educational outreach activities about Antarctica as well as to support more young people in Scouting and Guiding to do polar research and expeditions.
Kent County Scout Council Charity Registration No. 303471
West Kent Freemasons Help Again
On Friday 27th May 2022 West Kent Freemasons presented Alan Noake and Cathy Mummery with a further grant of £250 for the legacy REQUEST FUND. Alan and Cathy represented the REQUEST2021 team at a formal event at the Connaught Rooms and Grand Temple Freemasons’ Hall in London. Previously West Kent Freemasons donated £3500 along with East Kent Freemasons who donated a further £2500.
REQUEST FUND
Now that the core REQUEST2021 project is fully funded we have launched our legacy REQUEST FUND to help us reach more young people to learn about Antarctica, carry out polar research and undertake polar expeditions. This is part of our project objective 10.
The new page can be found on Just Giving: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/request
ReQuest2021 Podcast Ep. 24
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EPISODE 24 – Fri 1st October 2021 – A quick review of our September events, a message from Tom Boeckx commander of HMS Protector (and a Group Scout Leader in Thanet) who is currently heading down to Antarctica and the ReQuest interview with author Brad Borkan recorded back in 2020. At the time of the interview, he was promoting his book ‘When Your Life Depends on It – Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic’ co-authored with David Hirzel and most recently they have also produced ‘Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results: How an Explorer, an Engineer and a Statesman shaped our Modern World.’
A podcast documenting the Kent Scouts #ReQuest2021 Research Project all the way to Antarctica and back again! Interviews, Scouting historical links, events and research project work recorded along the way. Part of Alan Noake’s Antarctic Soundscapes project.
Show Notes
When Your Life Depends on It – Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic – Paperback by Brad Borkan and David Hirzel.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/When-Your-Life-Depends-Antarctic/dp/194531205X
When Your Life Depends on It – Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic – Audiobook
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/When-Your-Life-Depends-on-It-Audiobook/B07D835B3R
Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results: How an Explorer, an Engineer and a Statesman shaped our Modern World. By Brad Borkan and David Hirzel.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audacious-Goals-Remarkable-Results-Borkan-Hirzel/dp/1945312149
GOOD TO GO!
FANTASTIC! AMAZING! WHAT A WAY TO START THE WEEK!
WE HAVE DONE IT WITH JUST 10 DAYS TO SPARE!
WE JUST REACHED OUR PROJECT’S MINIMUM FUNDING TARGET OF £110,000 AND ARE GOOD TO GO!
BUT OF COURSE WE ARE NOT JUST GOING TO STOP THERE…
ANY ADDITIONAL FUNDS RAISED NOW FROM MERCHANDISE SALES ETC WILL ALLOW US TO PRODUCE AND DEVELOP EVEN MORE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ABOUT ANTARCTICA FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AS WELL AS CONTRIBUTING TO OUR 10TH PROJECT OBJECTIVE’S LEGACY FUND TO HELP OTHER SCOUTS CARRYING OUT POLAR RESEARCH IN FUTURE YEARS.
A MASSIVE THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS HELPED TO GET US TO THE STARTING LINE YOUR SUPPORT HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY TREMENDOUS DURING WHAT HASBEEN AN EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TIME FOR ANY PROJECT TO GET FUNDED.
ReQuest2021 Podcast Ep. 22
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EPISODE 22 – Monday 2nd August 2021 – The London Landmarks Half Marathon and the ReQuest interview with Louis Rudd MBE. Louis is a record-breaking polar adventurer, expedition leader, former Royal Marine Commando and SAS soldier, with 34 years of service. He is the first – and only – person to have traversed Antarctica twice using human power alone, and has reached the South Pole three times from different coastal start points.
A podcast documenting the Kent Scouts #ReQuest2021 Research Project all the way to Antarctica and back again! Interviews, Scouting historical links, events and research project work recorded along the way. Part of Alan Noake’s Antarctic Soundscapes project.
Show Notes
The ReQuest2021 London Landmarks Half Marathon Team
https://www.request2021.org.uk/events/llhm/
Louis Rudd’s Website:
https://lourudd.com
Endurance: By Louis Rudd
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Endurance-Soldier-Adventurer-Decorated-Leader/dp/1529031737
Visit our Fundraising Ladder for different ways to follow and support the project including our infamous Penguin Badges, Antarctic Top Trumps, Social Media pages and lots more…
www.fundraisingladder.co.uk/ReQuest2021
The London Landmarks Half Marathon
On the 1st August 2021 five wonderful volunteers ran the London Landmarks Half Marathon for us dressed in penguin outfits to help raise funds for the Kent Scouts ReQuest2021 Antarctic Research Project. Each volunteer had a target to raise of £500 or more!
London Landmarks Half Marathon Website: https://www.llhm.co.uk/
We also have a support crew of 6 based near St. Paul’s
to cheer them along on the day.
For more information contact: alan@request2021.org.uk
