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Excellent Triathlon28 July 2008 11:53Climbing the UK’s three highest mountains, swimming the UK’s three largest lakes and cycling the 500 miles in between – in one week! That is the Excellent Triathlon - for some, an irresistible challenge, and for three Excellent supporters, also an opportunity to raise funds to help build sand dams and plant trees in Africa ... Kumina Thina Kisaani16 July 2008 16:25The experiences of Kumina Thina Kisaani Self Help Group, as told to their Field Officer ... A Planet Positive Charity16 July 2008 05:51Excellent Development has become the world’s first 'Planet Positive Charity' thanks to our partnership with innovative carbon consultants dcarbon8 ... Annual Report 2007-811 July 2008 05:47The past year has been another successful and eventful year for Excellent Development, which culminated in us being named Overall Winner at the Excellent Wins UK Charity of The Year 200820 June 2008 10:50Excellent Development is celebrating a resounding win at The UK Charity Awards 2008 ... Excellent Shortlisted for Charity Awards12 June 2008 02:54Excellent Development has been shortlisted for a major national prize at The Charity Awards 2008, the UK charity sector’s most prestigious award scheme ... MCC Tanzania Visit to Excellent Development Kenya12 June 2008 02:48Our Quest Team Leader Sarah was in Kola when a team of visitors arrived from Tanzania to learn about sand dams ... Community Training Workshop12 June 2008 02:45Our Quest Team Leader, Sarah, reports on a community training session with Excellent Development ... Josephine's Farm12 June 2008 02:41A visit with Josephine Kavita on her farm - by Alvera Stern, one of our MCC secondees ... A great vision of the future27 May 2008 02:53This is the story of Kwa Mukonza Self Help Group, as told to their Excellent Development Field Officer ... A real adventure!27 May 2008 02:34Thanks to MCC, our major funders, we are very lucky to have Jacob and Alvera Stern as part of our Excellent Development Kenya team in Kola ... WaterRelief27 May 2008 02:25Sarah Charlton, Quest Leader on our WaterRelief expeditions, explains what the Quest experience is all about ... A Dam Successful Technology17 April 2008 12:25The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) have been a tremendous support to Excellent Development Kenya over the last three years, providing much of the vital funds needed for our dam building programmes ... How Sand Dams Help Prevent Malaria17 April 2008 01:01The 25th of April is World Malaria Day, raising awareness of the fact that although malaria is preventable and treatable, it is the world's second largest killer, causing up to three million deaths per year — one death every 30 seconds ... GA Conference01 April 2008 12:42Excellent Development staff attended the Geographical Association Annual Conference in March, presenting a workshop on sustainable development and distributing complimentary copies of the new Excellent Development Teachers’ Resource Pack ... An innocent adventure07 March 2008 05:02The innocent foundation is a long-term supporter of Meka community group ... Community Groups' Superb Progress15 February 2008 03:04We are still 6 weeks from the end of the financial year and already the 47 self-help groups working with Excellent have smashed their annual targets, making superb progress towards our 2010 goals ... Excellent Smoothies14 February 2008 04:55Many of you will be familiar with delicious innocent smoothies, but did you know that innocent drinks gives 10% of its profits to charity, via the innocent foundation? And that Excellent Development is one of the charities supported by this foundation? We are currently being featured on the back of litre cartons of innocent smoothies – in this case Mango and Passion Fruit ... 30 years and Still Going Strong17 January 2008 02:45The Utooni Development Project was formed in 1978 by Excellent co-founder Joshua Mukusya ... The Secrets of our Success...17 January 2008 02:38The Utooni Development Project was formed in 1978 by Excellent co-founder Joshua Mukusya ... News from Kenya15 January 2008 11:52Excellent founder Simon Maddrell is currently in Kenya and has sent us this update ... Kenya Community Groups Safe11 January 2008 04:25It has been a difficult start to the year for Kenya, as you are almost certainly aware ... Research on Ecosystems & Poverty looks at Excellent's Work14 December 2007 03:37Excellent Development has had some great news recently - our work in Kenya is being used as part of a worldwide scoping study looking at the links between poverty and ecosystem management ... Kilimanjaro Challenge 200710 December 2007 02:59Our second Excellent Expedition to Kilimanjaro has raised over £5,000, thanks to the hard work of all involved and their generous sponsors ... 100,000 trees for all seasons07 December 2007 03:50Forty-four community groups working with Excellent have planted an incredible 104,471 trees in November ... Car TreeDuty launched!03 December 2007 05:46For those of us who worry about our carbon emissions but love our cars, Excellent Development is proud to announce the launch of its Car TreeDuty® carbon offsetting programme ... Tree Planting with Excellent28 November 2007 03:26As the long-awaited rains finally come to Machakos and Makueni Districts, the self-help groups working with us have started to plant the tree seedlings they have been propagating in their tree nurseries since May ... Excellent Education Pack Launched01 November 2007 09:00Excellent Development have launched a Sustainable Development Education Pack - films and educational resources - for Key Stage 3 and GCSE teachers and pupils ... A visit to Mumbuni School for boys, Machakos31 October 2007 12:31When Excellent attended the Geography Association’s Annual Conference in April, our small exhibition stand attracted a huge amount of interest ... Kenya - A Personal Perspective08 October 2007 11:49Being a relatively new member to the Excellent workforce, I felt very fortunate to be offered the chance to go to Kenya, to visit the sand dam projects near Kola ... Excellent partner dcarbon8 wins HSBC Business Award18 September 2007 04:13The carbon offsetting consultancy and Excellent Development partner, dcarbon8, has been selected out of over 1,000 small businesses to win a prestigious HSBC Start-up Star Award ... Auction in Aid of Excellent Development07 September 2007 11:23Ribble Valley artist, Heather Paris, is offering her painting 'The Year of the Sweet Pea' for sale by auction on 19th September 2007 to raise money for Excellent Development ... Excellent's New Offices in Kenya03 September 2007 12:20Thanks to funding from the Andrew's Charitable Trust, Excellent Development Kenya have been able to move into new offices in Kola ... Excellent On The Move31 July 2007 04:50We have reached an exciting new milestone in the progress of Excellent Development ... Annual Report 2006/712 July 2007 01:00Our new annual report is now available to read online ... An Excellent Investment30 June 2007 02:54We are delighted to announce that we have won the support of two long-term funders to help with the expansion of our operations and promotion of our holistic development model ... World Water Day22 March 2007 12:20The 22nd March is World Water Day, and we are pleased to be marking it this year by reaching the milestone of 100 sand dams built since 2003, providing clean water to over 100,000 people ... Climb Kilimanjaro!15 January 2007 02:09This is your opportunity to climb Africa’s highest peak, raise money for Excellent Development, and visit some of the projects to see how your vital funds will be spent ... Offset your Annual CO2 Emissions15 January 2007 01:26Excellent has set up online donations via our brand TreeDuty ... 2006 Progress11 January 2007 10:492006 has been another outstanding year for the communities we work with in Kenya ... Walking on Water - an excellent film07 December 2006 09:37Last night we launched our feature documentary 'Walking on Water' at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London ... Artistic Impressions30 November 2006 01:03In September 2006, artist Krista Magee visited our work in Kenya to do some filming and help out with one of our dam building projects ... Partnership with Travel Counsellors15 November 2006 03:36Excellent Development is delighted to announce a new corporate partnership with Travel Counsellors, the UK's fastest growing independent travel agency ... Sand Dams - Africa's answer to Climate Change?31 October 2006 04:10The release of the government commissioned Stern Report has renewed attention on the impacts of climate change in Africa, and the measures that can be taken at a grassroots level to mitigate the risks ... Kili Conquest Raises £8K27 October 2006 01:01Six Excellent Development suppporters recently raised £8k towards our work with community self-help projects, when they pushed themselves to their limits in a bid to conquer Kilimanjaro ... Launch of flight offsets26 October 2006 09:27Have you been on holiday recently? ... Going back to my roots20 October 2006 01:00Planting trees is my hobby, because where there are trees the place is beautiful ... Focus on Africa11 October 2006 11:48Excellent Development co-founder Simon Maddrell was interviewed on the 22nd August by Victor Silva on the BBC World Service's Focus on Africa programme ... Another Excellent Quest!24 August 2006 03:07Excellent has now hosted its 3rd Quest Overseas Expedition to Africa - enabling young people to experience life in Africa and make a sustainable difference to life as they see it ... LBC Radio Interview07 August 2006 02:40Rodah Silu, wife of co-founder Joshua Mukusya, was interviewed on LBC - London's Independent Radio Station - on Sunday ... fruitstock07 August 2006 01:06Excellent Development had a great weekend out with those nice people at innocent drinks - along with about 100,000 of their friends! ... Seed Bank Appeal - Results28 July 2006 07:03As you may remember we launched a Seed Bank Appeal in March 2006 in response to the famine situation in Kenya ... Environment First! Development Later…?18 July 2006 12:55Sustainable Development is the latest and greatest philosophy (and practise?) of International NGO’s and their donors ... Quest July 200615 July 2006 18:33This year's first Quest expedition went off with a real bang, with most of the participants begging to stay on longer! In the end we managed to drag them away from the dam building onto the safari and back home, where they have not stopped raving about their experience to family and friends ... Founders climb Kilimanjaro Simon and Joshua, founders of Excellent Development, have been talking about climbing Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania for some time, but eventually set themselves the challenge to reach the highest point in Africa in February 2006 ... The second WaterRelief team included nine volunteers from the Isle of Man, of whom three were sponsored by the Isle of Man Governor's Golden Jubliee Trust ... Our first WaterRelief team stayed with the Nzaaya-Muisyo Self Help Group in Mbuani Village, where they helped build one dam and extended another ... |