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     B A R F has become a participating member of the Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB) self-regulatory scheme. The FRSB works to ensure that organisations raising money for charitable works from the public, do so honestly and properly. To see Our Fundraising Promise click here.

      To see a copy of our F R S B certificate click here.        

       BARF has no source of funding other than from donations by members of the public. We are determined to ensure that all such donations are used efficiently and exclusively in the furtherance of delivering humanitarian aid to the needy people of Bosnia Herzegovina.

        There is still a great need for the aid that we bring to Bosnia Herzegovina and we are very keen to continue with our twice yearly aid convoys. However, we have been hit by rising costs. One major item is the ever increasing cost of diesel, our main item of expenditure. In our February 2008 convoy we spent over £3,100 for diesel for the 6 vehicles. The withdrawal of the British Army contingent from Banja Luka in March 2007 has also meant a major increase in costs. We are unable to be accommodated by the British Army and now have no alternative but to use commercial hotels during our stay in Banja Luka - in February 2008, this amounted to over £1,000 for a 4 night stay. If you would like to support BARF with a much needed donation, preferably gift aided, then you can download a Gift Aid donation form click here and send it with your cheque to BARF, 19 Headley Road, Liphook, Hants GU30 7NS. It will be much appreciated and will help us in our struggle to remain an active organisation.            

        Alternatively, you could organise a sponsored event, using a BARF Sponsor Form, which can be downloaded click here. All you have to do is to get people to complete the form, collect the money and send it to BARF as above.

        We are obliged to have a complaints procedure for handling any potential complaints about our Fundraising. Our Chairman, Neil Ross Newitt, is the nominated complaints co-ordinator. Any complaint should be addressed to him directly, either by telephone (01428 729172) or email to: neil.newitt@barff.demon.co.uk or in writing addressed to BARF, 19 Headley Road, Liphook, Hants GU30 7NS. We undertake to respond in writing  to acknowledge your complaint within 14 days and to confirm that the complaint will be dealt with within 30 days. Should you not be satisfied with our response to your complaint, then you can contact the Fundraising Standards Board, Hampton House, 20 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TJ within 2 months of our response.

                          PRESS CUTTINGS

  BARF Chairman standing back from convoys

Neil Newitt, Chairman and Founder Trustee has decided that, after 20 convoys since 1997, and achieving his 65th birthday in March 2006, he would not participate in any future convoys. However, he will remain very much involved as Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer as well as Administrator organising the myriad bits of paper necessary to transport humanitarian aid from the UK to Bosnia Herzegovina.

To read a Press Cutting from his local newspaper - The Liphook Herald click here

Liphook Junior School donates 130 shoe boxes for Bosnia

To read the cutting from the Liphook Herald click here.

Our Trustee, Stuart Lindley talks to the Boston Standard

To read the cuttings from the Boston Standard click here and here.

Epsom College donates school uniforms Epsom College has donated a substantial amount of school uniforms for delivery to schools in Bosnia Herzegovina  11th June 2008 Old school uniform goes to charity   L6th form students help Neil Newitt from BARF (left) and Mike Coleman from the College Stores to load the uniforms A large quantity of old school uniforms, which is now surplus to requirements, has been donated to the Balkan Aid Relief Foundation (BARF), a charity that provides aid to disadvantaged schools in Bosnia-Herzegovina. BARF Chairman Neil Newitt came to the College today to accept the donation from College Stores Manager Mike Coleman. A group of L6th form students helped to load the boxes of clothes, which will be despatched to Bosnia later this year.

 To see details of who has participated in our convoys since 1997 click here

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