THANK YOU ALL for 2014 - our work of heart… #joymovement is on a large scale UP trajectory… with KINDNESS & LOVE expanding joy globally…
We are so BLESSED with your sUPport every year thank you, thank you, thank you to infinity and beyond…
2014 was the Twenty Fortunate year The UP hoped for… Thank you all for the continued sUPport of The UP & our growing “Joy MoVement”.With our joyful intentions we continued growing our local South African Joy Family and we set up our first joy campaigns to activate the Global Joy Movement – with #hula4love, #ark and we’ve just launched #88days too.
We are thrilled to share that we now have joy catalysts around the world, stepping UP, being humanKIND and sharing joy. Our great achievements of 2014 were greatly thanks to your support, here they are nutshelled:
We added a further +40 Care Clowns from 3 different provinces in SA and they are now part of our growing joy family
Care Clowns active in Cape town, KZN , Jozi & Pretoria and seeds panted for Mpumulanga and Namibia
OUR World HOOP day was a yay success with amazing partners 4Leaf Agency & Hoop Flow LoVe and we even supported our Care Clown brother Lyle broke a Guiness world Record for the longest distance travelled on a slack-line juggling at least 3 objects… He took the 6m record to a yay 33.35m whilst juggling 3 balls…Â
we now have new website thanks to GivenGain, MPress Design, Barbra Cowley & all the rad techy teams on the #doitday
A few Joy Facilitators are set up in Jozi & Cape Town to run schools joy programs
On an admin front… We are now officially a Public Benefit Organisation and we shifted from members based to a more efficient and pro-active governed body – our very own UP Board of Directors.
We did our second “joy tour” in June 2014 & gave joy talks to hundreds of adults, MAfrika performances to over 2000 previously disadvantaged school kids and found a new rooting for our joyful work.
We have been successfully running #hula4loVe online since February 2014 – inspiring hundreds of folk globally to help co-create circles of love around the world, by sending us the minutes that their bodies are spent hOOping. Folk send in their minutes on social media and so far we have logged in excess of 71 000 minutes… each minute equals a virtual kilometer, which means we have so far created the first circle around the world (41 500kms) and we are now over half way into our second circle (29 500kms). THE IDEA IS FOLK ARE INSPIRED TO MOVE INTENTIONALLY WITH LOVING KINDNESS AND those loving minutes logged are virtually CIRCLING LOVE AROUND THE WORLD. The bonus is The UP has been selling hoops around South Africa as FUNdraising tools, to support our on-going sustainability. We’ve sold over 200 hOOps so far and donated about 180 hOOps to children from previously disadvantaged community.
So with big UPpenings on the UP & UP - we are super yay excited for 2015 as the joy movement grows. Also we’ve moved our base camp UP office - UP to KZN. And we are gearing ourselves UP for a year long “JOY TOUR” in 2016 - making this year one of strengthening our work in the main provinces and planting seeds for next years biggest #joymovement yet. Â
The UP Plans in a nutshell for 2015 are:
Care Clowning Trainings every couple of months for  Cape Town, Gauteng, KZN & start in Mpumalanga & Namibia
Support JOYful School Care Clown Training & visits in Gauteng & Cape Town & potentially KZN
Run an online Care Clown Training for global joy catalysts to learn and share joy
Continue running global #joymovement campaigns like #hula4loVe #ark #88days #MASSS and synergise with global partners like http://wavesofkindness.org/ & http://www.kindspring.org/challenge/
Produce UPlifting youtube clips & articels to keep inspiring the growith of loVe, joy & kindness globally.
We are UPpening thanks to these awesome donor partners: Parmalat PureJoy, MAID, Buffex Buffalo tapes, Ford Motor Corporation of SA, Incledon Pipes, Hirt & Carter, HCI, Total Energy & Petroleum, CourierIT, 4Leaf Agency, Louise & team at Werksman Attorneys, GivenGain, Mpress Design, Harry Curtis & Co, Spirit Sister Productions, Vertical Response, Yeshiva College, Deonine CC, Secret LoVe Project,Â
Extra special thanks to our active Care Clown joy family & all the casual volunteers & individual donors of 2014: SteVie ZenJen, Trudi, Susy, Alison, Marcel, Phil, Mariano, Jayne, Saloshini, Lauren, Carlo, Lyle, Jori, Folake, Tania, Jayne, Mia, Steve, Bob, Robs, Barbs, Basil, Sandra-Dee, Frankie, Jon-Luke, Adi, Robyn, Sue, Shelley & Avigail, Siane & all the Yeshiva girls in Johannesburg and the Herschel Girls in Cape Town, as well as Beryl-Lynn in Mauritius and Chrissie in the Eastern Cape & ALL the others who've bought hoops from us & shared our work and growing #joymoVement - THANK YOU!!!
We are all catalysts of love and joy and we are actively creating the joyfully, festive and lovingly peaceful world we’ve all always dreamt of… YAY TO YOU, TO US, TO ALL!! We send you all Heaps of loVe & massive UPpreciation for supporting the UP to actively share joy for over 11years…
Here’s to a WOW 2015 - everyones’ BEST YEAR EVER!
