The readathon is coming!

It's not for a few months yet, but its time to start organising yourself for the date and getting signed up on the virgin giving page. My page: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/dannieadventure

DANNIE'S 12 HOUR CLIC SARGENT READATHON!

SATURDAY 4TH FEB 2012

Starting at 9.30am

Get yourself cosy, a pile of books organised, snacks sorted and sit back and relax ready to read for anything up to 12 hours in the Great 12 hour readathon!

£5 registration fee – Register online

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/dannieadventure or email Dannie for further details. dannie992@hotmail.com

you can get friends and family to sponsor you too, for however long you choose to read! Payments to be made via http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/dannieadventure

Prizes to be won along the way, from books to book tokens and signed books.

You can keep up to date on all the goings on on the day at the blog, including further details about the challenge.

http://thailandforclicsargent.blogspot.com

Part of Dannie's fundraising plans for Clic Sargent Thailand trek

CLIC Sargent registered charity number England 1107328

Get the date booked in your diary guys and if you want to, you can get fundraising and get people to sponsor you. Just contact me for a sponsor form.

Sponsored Walk - Final total!

Thanks to my two wonderful friends, between us, we were able to fundraise £181 for Clic Sargent Thailand Trek. I am so pleased with my friends and grateful for their participation in the fundraing challenge.

The £181 we made, takes the total to £797.

There are a variety of different events to be held over the next six months. I am contacting a Clic Sargent charity shop to see if i can host a tomobola at their store and i hope to do a car boot sale in the next few weeks. Also a guess the reindeer at the local pre school on their Christmas play day. It would be nice to do something else before Christmas, but am not sure what, or if i can arrange anything, so any suggestions are welcome!

Next year i have plans for a Chinese new year party at my house where i will be asking for a suggested donation of £5.

A wet and soggy sponsored walk!

The sponsored walk got off to a rather wet and soggy start, with the shower turning in to full on rain which didn't stop for about two hours and by that point we were all completely soaked through. However we all managed to stay enthusiastic!

The good thing about the rain was that it made it feel like more of a challenge as we dogged puddles and stinging nettles! Our shoes lasted about an hour and then the rain began to seep in and we spent the rest of the time squelching along! We were completely drenched and even when the sun eventually came out we were still very wet.

Thanks to the powers of my friends amazing talking voice! We were able to raise a further £14 from passers by who kindly donated to us, including one guy who donated £5 to us, which was so very kind of him. I think we did very well with how much we raised along the way, especially as we didn't see that many people as it was just so wet!

Four hours later, lots of rain and then sun as we crossed our finish line. There was lots of fun along the way including over protective swans, over zealious dogs and very wet people, but we did it and raised over £100 for charity. I will update with how much we have raised for the charity once my friends have given in their sponsorship amounts. However, we managed to raise a nice amount for charity and get fit along the way! I have to say, my body felt completely fine doing the 7.5mile walk and could have kept on walking longer, obviously fitter than i thought!

4TH SEPTEMBER - SPONSORED WALK!

Plans are well under way for the sponsored walk, with less than two weeks to go now!  There are three of us taking part in the walk and all raising sponsor money for Clic Sargent children's cancer charity, although we may have one or two extra people joining in as well.  I have raised £55 sponsorship for the walk so far and my friends are busy raising their sponsorship, so we are hoping to raise plenty for the charity.

We will be walking from Bishopstoke in Hampshire to Winchester, which is 7.5miles away.  We will be walking come rain or shine, so lets hope the sun is shining.  We will start walking at 10am and see how long it takes us!  It's a lovely route along the canal and hopefully we may meet some others happy to support us along the way.

I have t shirts for all those taking part so that we can highlight the cause further.

We hope to raise at least £150 from the walk, although if we can exceed this that would be great.

Fundraising can be hard, but when friends are willing to take part and help raise money for the fundraising total, it makes it a lot easier and reminds you of what is important in life.

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=dannieadventure

Clic Sargent charity plans

Plans are well under way for my Clic Sargent fundraising goal and i have currently fundraised £583.  My goal is £2012 as a result of doing the Thailand trek in 2012.  I have managed to raise most of the money through selling things on ebay and doing some small little fundraising things.  The dress makers dummy sold well, as did a bunch of puppets and a keyboard.  You can see the sales here, as well as being able to sponsor me!

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=dannieadventure

Over the next few weeks i plan to list more things on ebay, with an ironing chair to sell, which should earn around £25 for the charity.  I am also busy going through all belongings to sort out my stuff and have more stuff to sell for Clic Sargent.  I have a willow tree figurine and will be listing that on ebay, which should hopefully make at least £5 for the charity.  I would like to do a car boot at some point, but have just been incredibly busy so haven't had an opportunity yet.

So, over the next month i plan to sell as much as possible for charity and contact companies regarding raffle and tomobola prizes.  I also have my sponsored walk on 4th September!

As one door closes, new ones open!

So, as some of the doors close, such as the firewalking and the cake stall in the town centre, i have had to think of new ways of fundraising for the charity and have begun looking at an array of ways to raise funds.

I have decided upon a sponsored walk and have two friends defintely up for doing it with me and am off to ask a few more people to see if they are interested in joining us too.  I'm just waiting to hear back from one of my friends as to when she is free.  I'm hoping that i can get a group of seven of us together, obviously more would be great, but within reason as i can't have marshals or anything like that, its just going to be a leisurely walk.  I've been quite focused on it though and have decided upon my route.  I'm planning for us to walk from Bishopstoke to Winchester with hopefully a break along the way and hopefully i can convince the manager of the pub to give the group a free round of drinks when we get half way.  Also when we get to Winchester, there is a pub right where our finishing point is, so i am hoping that we can also ask them for a free round of drinks!  No harm in asking and it will be good publicity for them.  I am looking at offering each person a free foot massage at the end for taking part and will be roping in my parter to giving the group of ladies (who hopefully will be joining us) a lift home.  So, i just need to sort out dates for that and then will ask the ladies if they will join us too.

I have also decided on a way of fundraising for Clic Sargent that will encourage my friends from all over the coutry to take part too.  Quite a few of my far flung friends are book lovers and i have decided that maybe in February i will have a 24hour readathon! Although after some discussion with my friend i may change this to 12 hours instead. But you pay £5 to register and then can gain sponsorship on top of that.  I will post more on this nearer the time so that everyone can get registering and joining in with the challenge!

So, am hoping that with things like that i can raise the £2012 for the charity and possibly even more!  I will also be speaking to a friend who last year hosted a charity music event for me and will be seeing if he will host another one for me for this challenge.  It was a great success earlier this year and i anticipate it will be again.

A month passes!

So a month has passed since i last posted on here, with regards to my plans to raise the sponsorship money for Clic Sargent.  If i am honest, i'm finding it harder thani anticipated, plans for cake stalls in the town centre have fallen flat on their face, as i can't get the liability insurance to cover me and its just not worth it.  I feel like i create plans and then hit another hurdle, which hurts a little.

I have been making progress though and so far have raised £72 for the challenge and have paid it in on my virgin page.  http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=dannieadventure

I'm pleased about this as its the first amount in the plan to raise £2012 for the charity.  I did this by selling several of the items i said i would do, such as the play therapy book and massage tunic, plus receiving £50 in sponsorship money from my family.  Today i have listed the dressmakers dummy on ebay and hope to get a good price for that.  I still have a couple more things to list on there that should help to get the total up for me.