Coast to coast across the Pyrenees – by bike. 5-9 June 2009. Peace Direct supporter Rory Souter has recently returned from his 450mile (708km) cycle from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean through The Pyrenees. It’s a four and a half day event and can be undertaken at any time during the summer; it follows a prescribed [...]
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Archive: June, 2009
Rory’s Pyrenees peace mission
Job Vacancy: Database and Supporters Assistant
Database and Supporter Assistant Main Purpose To assist the Individual Giving Manager in all his/her tasks, including gift processing and supporter care duties, and to maintain Peace Direct’s database of political and media contacts. A. Database You will maintain a Microsoft Access database of contacts ensuring all contacts are still relevant as well as researching [...]
Peace Direct’s summer tour: Volunteers needed!
Peace Direct is going on a tour of various festivals and events to promote our work this summer, and we’d love you to join us. Details are: Event: London Pride Location: Central London Date: 4th July Event: Shoreditch Festival Location: Shoreditch Date: 19th July Event: Croydon Summer Festival Location: Croydon Date: 2nd August If you [...]
Truce 2020 showcase event
This week, Truce 2020 (http://www.peacedirect.org/peacebuilders/truce/) held an special ‘Breaking Boundaries’ event to celebrate over two years of this groundbreaking project. 70 young people have now learned about mediation, conflict resolution and prevention. They’ve shared that knowledge with their peers in schools and youth groups, taken part in national and international conferences and are going from [...]
New Ashima Film
In April we were thrilled to welcome Ashima Kaul to London to work with our Truce 2020 project. All of the team at Peace Direct loved spending time with Ashima and finding out more about her inspiring work. Here’s footage of a talk she gave about the journey of Athwaas, bringing together Muslim and Hindu [...]
South Kordofan, the new Darfur
“The situation in South Kordofan is getting worse by the day. This is our analysis of what is fuelling the conflict Oil “Oil money” is creating tension between tribes and families. The Baleelah and Awlad Hiban tribes have brought weapons and announced war, accusing each other of taking compensation from oil companies for land belonging [...]
Individual Giving and Website Manager Vacancy
Individual Giving and Website Manager June 2009, Peace Direct We are looking for an alchemist to turn interest into support and support into committed givers. You need to be creative, passionate, articulate and empathetic. You need to work well under pressure and manage a busy workload to deadline and to budget. You must combine analytical [...]
Charity Awards – Highly Commeneded
We are thrilled to have been Highly Commended in the prestigious UK Charity Awards at a glittering ceremony and dinner last night. Peace Direct was shortlisted in the Grantmaking category but pipped to the winner’s post by the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund for successfully campaigning for cluster munitions ban. Our congratulations to them [...]
Chief Executive Latest – Sudan
“I’m sitting here under a tree by the banks of the Nile in Juba. It is extremely hot and I’m envious of the boys splashing around in the river below. For various reasons it doesn’t seem like a good idea to join them… We have spent most of yesterday working on a constitution for the [...]
Day 1
Wet – 90 miles along the coast and inland, rain followed by harder rain but fortunately not cold, if you kept going that is! Soon very rural and rustic which was to be the theme of the trip. Great tastes too at our coffee and lunch stops – a basque omelette filled with the most [...]
