Custom Oxbridge Essays & Oxbridge Dissertations by Oxbridge Graduates.

During November, Academic Answers will be supporting education in Thailand at the state Wat Hu School located in Chumphon, sponsoring a member of our Marketing team – Nick – who will be volunteering for two weeks at the school from the 5th November. The school caters for both nursery and primary school children and calls out for volunteers to help teach their pupils English to improve their prospects in the future. Academic Answers have decided to support education in Thailand, due to the fact that many families are struggling with poverty and consider education to be a luxury. In Thailand, both primary and secondary education is free. Despite this fact, thousands of children don’t complete their education due to the need to work for the family and boost their income. Academic Answers wants to change this and support the school and pupils in years to come to improve the school and help children to complete their education. You can follow Nick’s blog by clicking here to read about his Thailand adventures.

Academic Answers have started contributing to the “progress thru processors” initiative. The scheme developed by Intel, saw the plight of researchers who often have limited processor power to handle complex calculations, which are in short supply, developed to power research efforts: Rosetta@home, Climateprediction.net and Africa@home. The team is now helping to provide additional processor power needed to help these well deserved causes. The scheme is only available as a Facebook application. To find out more click here, or download “progress thru processors” to your Facebook now!

Everyone had a great time at the Nottingham Robin Hood Marathon on the 13th September. All of our team finished with respectable times, and special mention should go to Daniel D in Customer Service, who set a new overall and men's AA half marathon record - 01:55:53! For the women, Karina completed the half marathon in a record 1:57:07!

The marathon was a great challenge and a superb day for all who took part. Many of us are now hooked and we've already got a team attending the Worksop half marathon next month. Well done everyone!

On Friday 25th September, thousands of kettles boiled in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support and we joined in!! All staff members supported and raised cash for the charity as part of the annual World's biggest Coffee morning. Donations were given for tea, coffee and fantastic homemade cakes brought in by staff. To raise further money for the charity we also held a 'Go Green Day', where all who took part were encouraged to wear something green from their own wardrobe. In total we raised £85.62. Let's hope every penny we collected makes a difference to people living with Cancer and we look forward to next year!

We're very excited about the Nottingham Robin Hood Marathon which takes place on Sunday 13th September 2009. Many of the Academic Answers crew are taking part, including Barclay, Tony, Karina, Ryan, Sean, Chris, Carly, Simon, Paul, Ami, Dan D, Nick, Liam and Jen! Some people are running to raise money for a school in Thailand that Nick, one of our Marketing Executives, will be visiting in November. We'll keep you posted!

You'll remember that Academic Answers donated over £1,200 to Comic Relief in April, after pledging a pound for every visitor that signed up to our mailing list. We were delighted to hear from Lenny Henry today that the total money raised for Comic Relief was a staggering £80,000,000 - that's right, eighty million!

Lenny says "That's money which will help give children in the world's poorest countries the education they deserve - money that will allow a mother and her baby to sleep under a mosquito net, safe from the deadly threat of Malaria, money that will help feed a child who has lost their parents to Aids".

We can't wait for Sports Relief which is coming up in March 2010 - another chance to do something that makes a real difference whilst having fun!

We're delighted to report that one of our projects, the Las Juanas group in Bolivia, has paid back their entire loan. This entrepreneurial group used their Kiva loan to increase their business by purchasing material and improving their business stands in order to attract new clients. This is just one of the groups Academic Answers has had the privilege of helping through Kiva, the international organisation that connects people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.

All of us are touched by education and learning, and likewise open education is something that benefits everyone. Each person or institution who makes a commitment by signing this international Declaration brings us a step closer to a world of open, flexible and effective education for all.

Signatories of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration are also indicating their dedicatation to pursuing additional strategies in open educational technology, open sharing of teaching practices and other approaches that promote the broader cause of open education.

Since we started helping the Kiva project last month, the Academic Answers team has made a total of 9 loans (and we're just setting up another batch of 10). It's great to read that 6 of those 9 borrowers are already paying back their loans - some have paid back as much as 25%. You can view our loans and their repayment status here. Why not sign up to Kiva and join the Academic Answers lending team - membership is open and you'll be very welcome in our group.

The photograph shows Mrs. Touch Raoth's Village Bank Group - comprising of twenty-seven people who live in the Angkrang Village in the Kampong Cham Province. Together they form this village bank loan and all the members will use the loan which they obtained for different purposes. The group has already paid back 15% of their overall loan which was for $3,700.

Academic Answers made a bold offer for Red Nose Day - we pledged to donate £1 to Comic Relief for every student or lecturer who signed up to our mailing list.

We were delighted to get 1,231 sign ups, resulting in a £1,231 donation to Comic Relief (see report in the Mansfield Chad). Thank you to all of our visitors and customers who signed up to the list and helped make this possible.

Since 1985, Comic Relief has inspired the nation to have a laugh while raising cash to help change lives. The vision of Comic Relief is a just world, free from poverty. You can find out more about Comic Relief here.

Academic Answers has joined forces with Kiva, a non-profit organisation that connects people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.

Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.

The people you see on the Kiva website are real individuals who need our help with funding their projects. When we loan to these people, we are helping a real person take a huge step towards economic independence and improve life for themselves, their family, and their community. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), Kiva sends email journal updates and tracks repayments. At the end of the loan when the money is repaid, we can choose to withdraw it or more likely, we can lend it to someone else.

As a lending team for Kiva, our mission is to help people further their education and skills in order to improve their standard of living and give themselves a better future. The projects we select are focused on this goal.

You are welcome to join our team and help us achieve this goal - no invitation is necessary.

You can view the Academic Answers Kiva page here: Academic Answers at Kiva

Academic Answers now proudly employs carbon offsetting through CarbonZero. CarbonZero works by investing funds in projects that absorb or prevent the release of a tonnage of CO2 (carbon dioxide) equivalent to our Carbon Footprint.

In doing so we are supporting co2balance's African Energy Efficiency Projects.

To read the full story, why not view our CarbonZero report? Click here. You can also check our membership on the CarbonZero website - click here.