Paper Round and Fundraising Groups

Hi, I’m back again. Not a lot to report this time because of exams at school. I got one job off my Dad – stuffing envelopes for his work. He said it was ‘very important’! I still need to be paid for this for an ‘undisclosed fee’ too. So hopefully that will add to my total. I also just started a paper round which gets me up at 6 each morning (I didn’t even know there was a 6 in the morning!) and I get £18 a week roughly. This is good as it means a regular source of money which should make a big contribution over the next year.

Second week back at school after Easter. We had another meeting today with the girl who is helping us from World Challenge. We discussed ideas for fundraising and we’ve split into fundraising groups. We’ve come to the decision to do bag packing at a supermarket before the end of the summer term. We want to get in before any other groups apply! We may well do it again near Christmas which gets me even more money. Today in the meeting we were given our fundraising t-shirts which will show people what we are raising for and also a planner/journal to record our ideas and got everyone’s contact details that are in my group. Our group is meeting again next Tuesday to discuss what’s happening with the bag packing and where we’re going (there are a few supermarkets we are writing to in and around York) and also our group name and when we could meet up in the summer holidays.

Other ideas for raising money include a cake stall (which we are hoping to do next week!!), talent shows (we’ve been talking about this and loads of ideas have come from everyone so it will probably be a hit and we may be able to do it again at a later date!!), non-uniform days (which will be good because together we could get over £1000 which would be well worth it!!) and loads more which would hopefully bring in the cash.

More soon!

Bye

Chris

First Money in the Bank!!!!!!

Hey again :D

I’ve now opened the account and my work for the Easter holidays has finished. :-) I've raised a total of £132 so far. This is roughly 3.5% of my total in less than 3.5% of the time I’ve got, so hopefully I’m gonna be well on the way to my first thousand by summer. I’m happy about reaching this total though because it has proved to me that the target is now achievable. If I put the effort required in and prioritise wisely then I can see myself raising the £3600, but I still need help if you can give me any!!!!!!!

Now that I have the first £100 odd I can concentrate on my school exams which I’m having for the next two weeks, so I probably wont be earning anything for a while. But as soon as the mocks of the mocks of the GCSEs (pointless I know) are over I'll be back to fundraising again. Next Christmas and next summer I’ll have more exams so I'll need help while I can't do the fundraising!

My Dad's working on a website to help publicise what's going on. Looks OK so far and should help give peple a better idea of what I'm doing. I'll let you know when it's live!

First Money Raised!

Hey its me again :D

Its getting harder day by day I’ve been working every day since last Thursday on ongoing tasks and on Saturday I got £35 for painting fences so that cheered me up a fair bit. I’m really enjoying my current task in a friend’s garden where I’m helping re do the whole garden and so far I’ve started on the patio and path and the pond and decking will probably be the next tasks. So hopefully that will get me a bit of money because its turning into a bit of an ongoing project.

But nevertheless its nice to at last sit down and put my feet up and forget about revision and fundraising and just relax for the rest of today. Tomorrow I paint fences again, Oh Joy!, and Wednesday is a rest day before I’m back in that garden again on Thursday and possibly Friday too!

Bye

Getting Started Raising Money

8th April 2009

Day one of my fundraising for Tanzania, I began to plan out how I could make £3,655 in eighteen months.
The main methods that I will use are;
> Organising Events
> Bag Packing
> Working for friends and family (e.g. gardening, car washing)
> Helping within the community
> Sponsorship
These are the main tactics I plan to use but there are others I could try. At the moment however I am searching for a job to make the fundraising easier.

When I get back from the Easter Holidays I will be working within a group of people, all working towards the money for Tanzania. In this group we will be using relations to give us a benefit on organising events for the community, these could be; cake stalls, discos, car washes, bag packing and lots more!

So far I have been “under attack” from my parents with them going on about ideas 24/7 and its only day one! I’m hoping that soon enough all this will stop thoughJ

Anyway tomorrow I go and help my mums friend shovelling gravel all over there garden which will hopefully bring me a small amount of money.

This is the end to my first day of fundraising for the trip of a lifetime and still the only thing that spurs me on is the thought of changing peoples lives in Tanzania that are worse off than us.