Only 5240 miles to go!!

A few days in and Harv, Seamus and Tom are already finding their stride, walking sticks and all. The boys set off on Tuesday to run round Britain’s coastline through the depths of winter, raising money for their Keep the Light On campaign to support R World’s mental health projects in Robbie’s memory. They’ve already raised over £2,000. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far 💙 Follow their journey live using the tracker in @wintermissionbritain’s bio, and donate here: https://tinyurl.com/v5dtnsk5

Winter Mission Britain/R World partnership ‘Keep the Light on’

We’re teaming up with Winter Mission Britain 💙 Tomorrow, Harv, Seamus and Tom set off to run round Britain’s coastline through the depths of winter: 5,240 miles and 84,000m of climbing, more than nine times the height of Everest, in just 180 days. They’ll carry all their kit and sleep wherever they stop. Winter’s long, dark days can be hard on our mental health. Keep the Light On is the team’s mental health campaign. It’s built on a simple idea: moving, getting outside and looking out for each other can help us through the darkest months.💫Two of the team grew […]

Weymouth Half Ironman Challenge completed raising £1,220 for R World

Huge congratulations to Ben Mitchell, who crossed the finish line at the Weymouth Half Ironman in 6 hours and 55 minutes, all in aid of R World 🎉 Ben and Robbie were coursemates at the University of Nottingham, and really great friends. Ben still laughs about setting an hourly reminder on nights out at Ocean, just to meet Robbie at the bar for a Jägerbomb. He was there every single time. 🕺 After months of training, Ben and everyone who kindly sponsored him have raised an incredible £1,220 for R World, funding more books, equipment and furniture for our library […]

R World’s 7th newsletter

Hi everyone – R World’s 7th newsletter is now available. You will see that we are making progress with the library – it is officially open and we are sending another load of books over. By the end of the summer, it will be fully furnished. Thanks for your continued support. We also have another winner of the Robbie Curtis prize for Human Geography at the University of Nottingham. All the winning students’ dissertations have been brilliant achieving 80%+.

ROBBIE’S LIBRARY IS OFFICIALLY OPEN

In celebration of Robbie’s 28th birthday, we’re incredibly proud to share that the library dedicated to him in Malawi is officially open Thanks to every single person who donated, and to the Brown Munthali Foundation, this dream has become a reality. At R World, we’re committed to creating meaningful impact for communities in need, and we know Robbie would be so proud of what’s been built in his name. In honour of Robbie’s birthday, all donations will go directly in to funding books, computers and furniture to grow the library’s resources. Happy Birthday, Robbie.

New website for our partner the Brown Munthali Foundation

A wonderful new website has been launched by the BMF.  Read all about the good work they do in the community to help the vulnerable children, many of them orphans. The library project is their most ambitious  project to date and is set to help everyone in the region. Brown has important plans for the library and R World intends to continue to give them a hand up and support their work by applying for grants and seeing if we can get encourage some English schools to form partnerships. Now an NGO, it should help their status in terms of […]

2000 books and 6 computers arrive in Chitimba from R World

The books and computers arrive On 20/06/2025, 2050 books and 6 computers arrived in Chitimba having set off from Canterbury in February 2025. What a journey. Instead of them arriving at a port near Malawi, preferably in Tanzania or Mozambique, Books2Africa sent them to Durban in South Africa! They therefore have travelled by road through Zimbabwe and Mozambique and arrived in Blantyre, 505 miles and over 13 hours away from the final destination of Chitimba. Brown has had to negotiate with the authorities to exempt the Brown Munthali Foundation from the extortionate duty the customs authorities wanted to charge – […]

Progress so far

It never gets easier to accept, but from the bottom of our hearts we want to thank you for all of your continued support throughout these years. 💙 We have achieved so much with R World in his memory, and we know he’d be so grateful to everyone who has played a part in this journey. From runs, cycles, and moustache growing, to funding first aid for mental health training for over 50 lecturers and teachers. Not only this, but we have now built a community library in Chitimba, Malawi. Our next goal is to raise £3500 to fill the […]