FOT puts on shows, holds parties and sells Christmas Cards each year to raise money for our general funds, and supporters have also tapped into an amazing willingness on the part of their friends to dream up a variety of fun-filled fund-raising activities.

This year's plan include: 

'Go Ghana!' Cycle Challenge 2011

Top of the bill in 2011 is our very first - Ghana's very first - Charity Cycle Challenge.  For a week at the beginning of October around 25 dedicated, energetic participants (both experienced and not) will be cycling more than 200 miles from the slave castles of Cape Coast and Elmina to a royal reception by the Chief and Elders in Kwahu-Tafo, raising money for Clean Drinking Water and eventually seeing for themselves what Friends of Tafo does.

Could one of them be you? 
Our newest recruit has just told us "It took me five minutes to decide: please sign me up at once!"

Your contact is Emma Getliffe at Classic Tours on +44-(0)130 386 2996 or at emma@lifecyclepromotions.co.uk.

We should still be able to fit you in! 

Strictly Come Laughing 3

Our black talent stand-up comedy gala, staged at the glorious Hackney Empire, was a standing-room-only success as soon as we created it to follow fiver years of its predecessor "The Empire Strikes Black".  Our thanks go to all the stars who readily help raise a miraculous GBP10,000 each year to fund projects in Kwahu-Tafo, and to Sarah Moore and Paulette Randall for so generously producing and directing.

Stand by for this year's date! 

Past events have included:

• Michael Palin interviewing his one-time TV Producer Humphrey Barclay at the Royal Geographic Society about his life as a Chief in Ghana.
• Colchester's "Quire" holding a concert of African music for us.
• Two Scavenger Hunts.
• A Balloon Race by Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls.
• A fund-raising lunch given by Rebecca and Colin Perry featuring Flanders and Swann tribute act "At the Drop of a Hippopotamus".
• A Walkley Midnight Walk by the Lacaille family .
• A Cross-Channel relay swim by five teachers from St Paul's School, London.
• A sell-out Comedy Concert at Stratford Town Hall.
• A 13-pool swim by Lizzie Chatterjee. 
• A stand-up comedy evening produced by Crispin Leyser.
• Two parties at Art First Gallery in London's West End.
• A run by Washland Women Runners.
• And a large number of birthday and dinner parties.