This year I will be working with The FutureSense Foundation (FSF) who support community development in some of the poorest regions of the world. I will be supporting FSF by doing lots of fundraising and participating in the Cambodia Community Challenge.

I will be going to Cambodia in the summer with Bangor RAG (Raising and Giving) to teach conversational English in schools, delivering health and wellbeing workshops and delivering creative arts and sports sessions.

I will be focusing on supporting young girls and teaching them about puberty and menstruation, while improving facilities to make sure young girls can still go to school while they are menstruating.

This virtual balloon race is a great, environmentally friendly, fun way to help me fundraise. You can buy a balloon and customise it’s shape, colour, thickness, and helium level.

The balloons will be ‘launched’ on Valentines Day and they are then subjected to a simulated flight pattern based on the actual weather conditions such as the prevailing wind speed and current temperature. This simulation uses an advanced computer modelling programme linked to Google maps and a commercial weather data supplier. Anyone can follow the leading 100 balloons online through the 7 days of the race.

The winning balloon (£500 prize) is the one that has flown the furthest in a straight line from the launch location. Interestingly, a popped / burst balloon can still win if the wind direction changes and sends the still-flying balloons backwards in a reverse direction.

I really do appreciate your support, thank you so much!

Click below to buy and customise your balloons. (Due to data protection I cannot see who has bought the balloons, so unless you let me know I cannot easily thank you… so THANK YOU!)

Katie xx

Our fundraising target is: £500

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