by daniela | Aug 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
How best to celebrate centenary of a country? Our volunteers insisted – with charity drinks. Networking + drinks reception + a bit of charity was a fantastic way to mark Latvia’s centenary. Over £3,500 were raised for 5 charity pledges in celebration of the...
by daniela | Aug 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
Facebook has verified our charity status and you can now donate your birthday to @GivingforLatvia Asking your friends to celebrate your birthday by donating to charity instead of giving you physical present is easy: 1) on your own Facebook user dropdown menu you will...
by daniela | Jun 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
The map of locations where volunteer fundraisers have run marathon to raise awareness and donations for Giving for Latvia has been expanding. Riga was added to our marathon map, thanks to founder of Running1000Plus Will from France and his spontaneous...
by daniela | Mar 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
With world class sports personalities supporting our charity auction – Jeļena Ostapenko signed tennis ball and ice hockey stick of the Captain of the Latvian Ice Hockey Team Roberts Bukarts (auctioned in the heat of World Ice Hockey Championship) with autographs...
by daniela | Mar 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
Thanks so much Hands on London for donating 1,000 surplus children’s coats! We appreciate support of Diamond Transport Solutions and Daugavas Vanagu Fonds Lielbritānijā with transportation of the donation to Latvia. We are grateful to Latvijas bernu fonds for...
by daniela | Mar 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
Thanks to all the guests and donors for making fundraising such fun! We now know the price for Latvian Ice Hockey jersey with signatures of 24 of the players. We have established how much the double of the gift that the Embassy of Latvia in UK...
by daniela | Sep 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
Tough Mudder is a challenge for particularly tough cookies and Iveta Parravani is certainly one inspirational and resilient Latvian. Iveta was diagnosed with severe post-natal depression & post-traumatic stress disorder after the birth of her first...
by daniela | Aug 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
What made the London Marathon of 2016 special? His excellency Ambassador of Latvia Andris Teikmanis was fundraising for GfL by running there! £2,300 have been raised, thanks to 45 donors from UK, Switzerland, Canada and USA. Your last year’s donations helped to...
by daniela | Jun 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
A typical donor does not await a “thank you” for his donation, but Giving for Latvia fundraisers have been sending very personal greetings to their supporters via most amazing postcards from across the world: – Faroe Islands postcard from Alex and...
by daniela | Feb 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
Given the size of donations we now attract annually, during 2015 we got officially registered as a charity with the UK Charity Commission. The total amount of financial grants distributed by GfL since inception now aggregates to over £25K. Almost 5 tonnes of donations...
