As you have probably noticed the website has now been live for a few weeks. We wanted to take this opportunity to say a massive thank you to everyone who helped get it up and running. The feedback has been really positive and the donations are now starting to come in!

Special mentions must go to Paul and Adam for volunteering their graphic designing skills – the site looks awesome! To Charles at Gum Interactive and Jason at Vividual for the web development. Amy, Liz and Wendy for their editorial eyes and copy suggestions. Stephen for dealing with all the IT and server stuff. Simon for emailing his address book to let everyone know when the site went live. All of you who are taking part in RunAsOne in October. The whole team at Burnett Works for our first ever donation and everyone else who has made a gift too. Plus to all of you who have listened and shared your ideas for the site. Without you LearnAsOne would still be an idea.

From the whole LearnAsOne team, thank you!

What do you think?

It would be really appreciated if you could spare 10 minutes to make yourself a nice cup of tea and take a look around the site. We would love to hear what you think and if you have any ideas for improving the site – you can leave your comments below. And if you want to receive regular updates about how the LearnAsOne story evolves please subscribe to the blog by clicking on subscribe button in the purple box to your right. Thank you.

Now we just need to raise £25,000 to build school number one!

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