Quick Update

This is quite a late post, but I realised I haven’t been posting on here much lately.

Every Monday until exams, I will be holding a weekly fundraiser at college. Tomorrow, I will be selling fresh pancakes again, Mel is very kindly letting me use her pancake maker again because my waffle maker wont arrive till Tuesday. Then every week following, I will be selling fresh waffles.

I will also be selling the sweet cones and reindeer hot chocolate again as I still have some left and they sell well. I’m thinking of bringing in the jewelry I made a while ago and selling it at a reduced price of £1 for each item. These people are students, so I think it’s only fair to bring the price down.

I recieved a few small donations recently, aswell as another trust grant.

My total without including my sponsorships from the skydive is £5049.49 however with my sponsorships it is £5160.49 which is 83.23%

Hopefully tomorrow and the rest of the weekly fundraisers go well. I am also having a party at my boyfriends house where there will be a bbq and a raffle. I am hoping a lot of money is generated from that too.

 

Merry (Belated) Christmas

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. I have to say this year has been one of the best Christmases I’ve had! Next year is going to be completely different. I’ll be spending it in the South African sun with people I haven’t even met yet! Although I bet it’ll be the most memorable Christmas I’ll ever have.

Since the Christmas Fair on the 10th December I gave out refreshments at the college Performing Arts Christmas show on both nights in exchange for donations and got a total of £22.75. I put up Pete’s tree for the balcony getting me an extra £10. I sold a couple of the reindeer hot chocolates from the Christmas fair and an Angel my Nan made. Also very generously Pete and his golf friends donated £50! By doing odd bits and receiving a donation my running total is now £3034.10, hitting my deadline 34 days early. I am very happy and put me in a great position to hit my final target before I leave in August.

Even though its Christmas and I have spent a lot on presents, my savings are doing well. My family gave me £135 towards my spending money as well as 1220Rand which is the South African currency, which is equivalent to £72.03. I also received a lot of presents for my travels. My granddad and Sue gave me a Travel Journal which I love. My parents got me a penknife, travelling cutlery set and sleep eye mask and ear plugs. I picked up my secret Santa present from work today and it was a memory foam travel pillow and lovely luggage tag. Thank you Santa! Its safe to say my family and friends have been very thoughtful this year and are definitely very supportive for my travels.

I haven’t decided on what my next event will be but I will definitely be sending letters,emails and asking face to face about bag packing in the new year. I am looking into doing a sponsored skydive soon too. My friend James has also volunteered to pay for his own skydiving and gather sponsorships for me which is amazing of him.

Its very nerve wracking that in just a couple of days I’ll be saying ‘I’m going to South Africa this year’…. However I couldn’t be more excited about it.

Jewellry and Virgin Money Giving

Big thanks to my dad and step mum for being the first to donate on my Virgin Money Giving page. Tonight i posted photos on my facebook page of the earrings and key rings i am selling. These were all made by me and all profits are going towards my fundraising. Two weeks today i’ll also be selling them at the local car boot sale along with clothes that no longer fit, dream catcher, scrunchies etc which i have made. So going to be making a lot in the next two weeks. I’m also in the middle of organising my first fundraising event, a coffee morning. Hoping to have a lot of people turn up and sell tonnes of tea, coffee and cakes!