Great staff at Clic Sargent charity shop

Today i received a call from the manager at the Clic Sargent store in Southampton. They had received my letter and were getting back to me about doing a tombola at their store. They were so helpful and kind and are happy for me to come and do a tombola at the store in December, which is great as it should be hitting the Christmas shoppers. It's also another wonderful way to raise funds for my charity trek. Also i will get a chance to chat to the staff and fundraising team, who may also be able to promote my 12 hour readathon for me and in doing so, raise lots for the charity.

It's great news and will be nice to chat to others who are really interested in the charity. It will also be great as doing the tombola should help me getting ever closer to my half way target of just over £1000.

Car boot sale fundraising success

Last Sunday i did a car boot sale at the local car boot and managed to raise £26 for the charity, taking my current total up to £843. Although not a huge success, every penny helps and the generosity of people was really heart warming.

I have sent a letter off to Clic Sargent charity shop in Southampton in the hope that they may let me do a tombola at their store. I have all the prizes already gathered so just need a venue to do it at.

A local pre school are happy to let me do a guess the name of the reindeer at their centre nearer Christmas time, which is great and should hopefully raise £40 for the charity.

Plans for the readathon are going well and i just need people to start signing up for it now!

Am also hoping to have another sponsored walk around May time next year and to also host a charity music event.

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!