Here’s a sneak preview of January in our 2018 calendar:

Here’s a lovely new way you can support our work and help some very disadvantaged children, and at the same time enjoy a memento of your relationship with TIP: these bright 2018 calendars show the diversity of the work that we do – and the diversity of how your support benefits those most in need. Just open up and have a look…

These Cornish teatowels designed by Port Isaac artist Caroline Cleave are being sold to raise money for charities including TIP*. £7 plus £2 P&P (free delivery in Prishtina/ Tirana) – contact theideaspartnershipuk@gmail.com to get yours.

(* Yes, it’s a P I T-towel 😉 )

This year’s UK supporters’ day is coming soon! It’ll be on July 15th, and already you can bid for lots from the auction: lovely things to wear, lovely places to stay, lovely other things…

There’s a fun new fundraising idea, it’s coming soon, and you can be part of it! Surely you want to learn here how you can TIP the Teapot for Kosovo…

The children of Fushë Kosovë have designed some funky greetings cards,

and you can order a pack here: https://tipvideosblog.wordpress.com/order/.

You’ll get something very special, and you’ll be donating money to their kindergarten.

 

Here’s Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall celebrating with some of our supporters in the UK the extraordinary link between their Cornish village, Port Isaac, and TIP’s work with marginalized children in Kosovo. Pictured here with the Duchess are people who’ve visited and volunteered, people who’ve given shoes or clothes or other necessary things, people who’ve devised and run small projects to help the community, and some of those who’ve given money, including legendary shanty-singing group The Fisherman’s Friends. Special day; special relationship.

We had another enjoyable supporters day in May 2016, bringing together many of our UK donors and volunteers and, live from Kosovo, some of our team. They had an auction of fun stuff to raise money, and heard from diverse volunteers and visitors to Kosovo about the different ways they had made a difference. See more here!

Her Royal Highness Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall visited our centre in Fushë Kosova, to see our work and meet our volunteers and partners. She gave a set of books to the children, and was given a selection of products made by women in our micro-finance projects and a picture made by the children showing the flags of Kosovo, the UK and Cornwall…

and the message that: sometimes it takes more than one village to raise a child. Lots of smiles.

Here’s Elizabeth Gowing talking to supporters in the UK about how TIP works and what we’ve been doing…