Steadfast Trust September newsletter‏

Charity Update
Since starting with the charity 18 months ago there’s been a great deal of work gone into getting the organisation up and running. We feel we've got a great team in place that is more than capable of moving the charity forward. As we've mentioned previously we will now be sending out regular e-mail updates, we’ve started a bi-monthly newsletter (the first one is available on our main website and the second one will follow very shortly) and we are also rolling out our membership scheme so membership cards will soon be going out to all existing members. You can now expect to see fund raising events taking place around the country such as sponsored walks and stalls at country fairs and county shows. Many of these events will be listed on our improved ‘News and Updates’ section of our web page. We hope as many of you as possible will join in with the planned events.

Sponsored Walks
Remember these are the very first Steadfast sponsored events so let's show everyone what the English community can do by making them a resounding success!!

Sponsor an English Kid!
On the 28/9/08 Ella Ingram (English Rose aged 6 ) will be doing a Sponsored Walk in Leicester, from Alfred Place (King Alfred!) to Saxon Street (Anglo-Saxons!) in aid of the Steadfast Trust. You can support Ella in her efforts by going here

Devil's Dyke Sponsored Walk
Several East Anglian based volunteers (and a couple from further a field) plan to lace up their hiking boots and don their waterproofs to raise money for the Trust. A sponsored walk along Devil's Dyke will take place on Sunday 21st September. There are several earthworks bearing the name "Devil's Dyke" or Devils Ditches but the Dyke in Suffolk is one of a number of defences along what would have been the ancient boundaries of the East Anglian and Mercian kingdoms. It stretches across open chalk lands between the impassable fenland to the north and the thickly wooded land to the south and at its zenith it would have formed an effective barrier. The ditch may well have been filled with thorny bushes to act as further defence, and it is possible that the monument may have been built over an earlier prehistoric dyke on a similar alignment.

If you'd like to join in the fundraising and come along on the walk you can find full details of the walk here.

You can also sponsor several of the walkers on-line on the following pages.
http://www.mycharitypage.com/Ju/
http://www.mycharitypage.com/TimHawke/
http://www.mycharitypage.com/Ingy/

Final Thought
"There are no people so easily robbed of their culture as those who didn't know they had one."

Yours sincerely
Julien Crighton – Trustee of the Steadfast Trust
www.steadfasttrust.org.uk

"To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life"