Events

RECENT EVENTS:

LATA/All Party Parliamentary Group for Latin America: House of Lords  - 1 February

LATA Foundation chairman David Gilmour addressed the annual meeting of the Latin America Travel Association and All Party Parliamentary Committee  hosted by Baroness Hooper. The event was attended by representatives of Latin American Embassies, Consulates or High Commissions as well as members of LATA. Guests included various partners the LATA Foundation is working with on our projects in Latin America. Jeremy Browne MP, Minister for Latin America, also spoke.

Please click here to read an edited extract of David's House of Lords  speech.

Latin America Society: Leicester University - 2 February.

The Latin America Society of Leicester University chose the LATA Foundation to be the beneficiary of a fundraising event this year for which we were happy to donate some raffle prizes. Their "Break that Piñata" event at the Students Union on 2 February raised £100.

Andrea Hurtado de Mendoza, President of the Latin America Society, reports: "We hope this money will help the wonderful projects you are supporting throughout Latin America. We decided to donate the money to general funds and we entrust you to use the money to support the project or projects in most need. We would also like to thank you for all your wonderful support for our event."

We are grateful to the Mexico Tourism Board and to Bradt Travel Guides who also donated raffle prizes.

The Facebook page for the Latin America Society is: https://www.facebook.com/LatAmSocUoL

Destinations 2012 Travel Show: Earls Court - 2-5 February

The Latin America Travel Association kindly gave us a presence at their stand at this prestigious travel show. In addition to distributing over 400 postcards and flyers about our work we helped to distribute around 1200 copies of the LATA Guide to Latin America which includes a page about the work of the LATA Foundation. If you would like to receive a copy of the Guide please contact us info@latafoundation.org. 

FORTHCOMING EVENTS:

Tunbridge Wells Half Marathon: 26 Feb

Film-maker Louise Martindale is running the Tunbridge Wells Half Marathon on Sunday 26th February to raise money for the LATA Foundation. Louise and her journalist partner Ali McClymont travelled to South America in 2010 and visited four of our projects.   This gave them a very different perspective to their travels. To see the films they made about our projects please click onto our video page. Louise has persuaded her brother Will to take part in the marathon too.  

If you would like to sponsor Louise and/or Will please click onto the link below or go to our donations page, click onto the justgiving link and input Martindale into the  search engine to Find your friend. http://www.justgiving.com/Martindale4LATA

Responsible Business Exhibition: Business Design Centre, Islington -  14-15 March

The LATA Foundation has been awarded a free stand at the 2012 exhibition. Please come and visit us on Stand No 2 on the right as you enter the show.

Karen Heale, the Exhibition Manager, told us: "I am very keen to make sure that we do include charities that are entirely run by volunteers. It is often smaller charities who would not usually get the opportunity to spend time networking or meeting with other charity workers and businesses who make the most of the opportunity. We are very pleased to include the LATA Foundation in the exhibition in 2012."

For further information please see: www.responsiblebusinessevent.org

LATA FOUNDATION MEETINGS:

Trustees: The next meeting will be on 1 March 2012. Our trustees have provisionally scheduled meetings for 14 June, 6 Sept and 6 Dec 2012.

Projects: Our projects team have arranged the following dates for meetings in 2012: 28 Feb; 17 Apr; 29 May; 3 July; 14 Aug; 25 Sept.

Fundraising: Our events and fundraising team have provisionally booked the following dates for meetings:  20 Mar, 15 May, 24 Jul, 2 Oct and 27 Nov.

All dates are subject to change.