At the end of December we wrote to you about our idea for the 2021 CRAG Challenge to raise funds for our Christmas and New Year appeal ‘Help Save Young Lives - Support Safe Passage’. 

Since then some of us have set ourselves a personal New Year challenge (details below) and asked people to sponsor us. The response from donors has been amazing and we recently met our fundraising target of £2,500 for Safe Passage! So we’d like to say a massive THANK YOU to all our supporters for this achievement. 

Not only did we manage to reach our target, we have also exceeded it, and we would like to send any further funds raised for this appeal to choose Choose Love (https://helprefugees.org/) which provides basic necessities - food, shelter, warm clothes - to refugees in desperate need, in the camps in Greece or the streets of Calais.

There’s still time to sponsor us - we’ve listed our challenges below. Each person has their own JustGiving page so you can donate online. Your donation will go directly to CRAG to help support refugee charities. 

Also we’d love to hear from you if you decided to take part. What challenge did you set yourself, and how are you getting on? Please email secretary@charlburyrefugee.org.uk or post an update on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/charlburyrefugee. 

And it’s still not too late to take up your own challenge...find out how to get involved. 

CRAG New Year challenges on JustGiving

Olivia Brooks is training to run a half-marathon (by herself) the last weekend in January. So far she has managed 17km and is working towards running 21km (13 miles) in two weeks time.That is quite a challenge. She needs your support! Her JustGiving page is here: 
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Olivia-Brooks99

John Dunleavy is going to walk 100 miles by his birthday, on 10th  February! He has now completed a third of his challenge and it has certainly been a challenge given how muddy the footpaths are around Chipping Norton. John is keeping a note of the birds he sees whilst out on his walks. To support John or to look at the birds he has seen so far please visit his JustGiving page: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/john-dunleavy

CRAG bookshop

With libraries and bookshops closed (now even for click and collect), are you running out of books to read in lockdown? You can buy second-hand books, many in very good condition, from our CRAG bookshop and we have a wide selection of fiction, non-fiction, children’s and Young Adult books. Please browse our catalogue of over 1400 donated titles, many of which are priced at 50p or £1 and contact capricornclive@aol.com for more details.