Phuket Community Foundation

PCF coordinates teaching programme between Thai and International schools

Alasdair Forbes — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:33:49 +0000

Phuket Community Foundation coordinated a demonstration of a highly successful internet teaching programme to a local school in Phuket.
Mr. Nattawat, VP Academic Section of Sattree school led a team of 6 English language teachers to observe the internet based reading programmes and MyiMaths programme which have been inspirational in stimulating the students interest at Head Start school.
Mr. Jazon Edouard, the Director of Head Start school has offered to sponsor the internet programme at the Thai school.

Donation for toy library

Alasdair Forbes — Sat, 12 May 2012 04:33:09 +0000

Annabelle Singaram and her husband Arnie recently visited Phuket from Hong Kong with their two children Jayan, 19 months and Nillah, 6 weeks old. They very kindly brought toys for the new toy library at Rajabhat University, due to open in June. The PCF is very grateful to the family for their kind donation and we hope that they will come back and visit us in the future.

Toy library project

Alasdair Forbes — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:20:32 +0000

Our next toy library is due to open in June at the Rajabhat University. We are always very grateful to receive new and used toys to replace broken ones at our various libraries around Phuket island. Most recently we welcomed an Australian family on holiday in Phuket, who had collected toys from their school, St. Teresa’s school in Adelaide. Mr. & Mrs. Kent and their sons, Lachlan and Xavier, brought 2 suitcases of toys to present to Ban Bangkoo school. PCF would like to say a big thank you to them and we hope that many more toys will be collected to keep our toy libraries in operation. It is a great pleasure to see the joy and surprise on the children’s faces when they first come into the library.

Two prizes unclaimed

Alasdair Forbes — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 04:36:00 +0000

Two prizes from the Great Rubber Duck Race have yet to be claimed.

We have tried to contact the winners without success, so if you have ticket numbers 1401 or 972 please get in touch with us by email to manager@phuketcharity.org or by calling Cindy on 0887680650.

Duck Race Winners result!

Alasdair Forbes — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:58:09 +0000

Dear all,

Thanks again for your participation, the PCF race day was once again a very fun day!

The PCF managed to raise approximatevely 150 000 baht for the day which will be used to set up the next Toy Library in Rahjaphat University Library and Future Grants!

Please check in the ducky table if you are a winner or not!

Please contact by email manager@phuketcharity.org if you want to retrieve your prizes.

Prizes are out!!!!!!!!!!!

Alasdair Forbes — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:51:15 +0000

Dear All of you Ducky Players!!!

Here are the Prizes you will receive if you are the Lucky Winner!!

To have more chance to win buy more tickets and you can have more Ducks! Tickets are only 200 baht each!!

Books for students

Alasdair Forbes — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 05:54:26 +0000

PCF President Pranee Sakulpipatana recently delivered more than 30 medical textbooks and encyclopedias to the Rajabhat Phuket University library. The books were donated by Dr. Ong Tat Lien from Malaysia.

Pictured, from left, Roongprakai Sang-In, PCF manager, and Ajarn Pranee with the university’s three librarians, Malin Sa-gniamkul, Aussana Kraireuk and Arom Somjai.

Final result from Race Day: Just under B600,000

Alasdair Forbes — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 06:28:24 +0000

The numbers are finally in. The PCF realised a net income of just under B600,000 baht from Race Day 2011. Here’s the breakdown:

Donations/sponsorships/race fees/coupon sales: B499,243
Duck race ticket sales: B224,100
Total income: B723,343
Expenditure: B124,414
Net income: B598,929

We spent a further B25,500 on “capital” items (such as rubber ducks) which can be reused next time, so this cost is not included in the final figures for the day.

Also not included is the value of donations in kind, such as Laguna Phuket allowing us to use the Latitude marquee and building the duck machine; and the prizes for the duck race. The prizes alone were valued at a total of B1.4 million.

The event was bigger and considerably more effective in fund-raising terms than the event in November 2009, when the net income was around B150,000. This year the PCF sold 1,494 duck race tickets, compared with 1,000 at the previous event.

Finally, we need to ask you for a favour: We have already made a list of things that did not work so well, but we need feedback from people who took part or just came along to enjoy the day. Don’t worry about offending us – criticism is valuable to us if we are to go on improving the event. Please send your comments by email to director@phuketcharity.org

Great coverage for Race Day

Alasdair Forbes — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:05:02 +0000

PCF Race Day has had some great coverage on the web, with hundreds of photos and some fun vids. Click on the links below for just some of these. We’re also all over Facebook.

Expect to see post-Race Day coverage in the Phuket Gazette and The Phuketian and, we’re sure many other local publications.

Final results of the Dream Gallery Great Phuket Rubber Duck Race

Alasdair Forbes — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:19:47 +0000