Our first fundraising events

After a weekend of frantic baking we held our cake sale on Monday 13^th November.  We had a wide selection of goodies made by various colleagues including lemon drizzle cake, gingerbread cookies, peanut butter fudge, Christmas cupcakes, iced biscuits, rocky road and a selection of fairy cakes.

We placed the selection of goodies with a donation pot in our canteen and watched the treats fly off the table.
Charlea’s amazing Christmas cupcakes were an instant hit and sold out within minutes of us opening the boxes. 

Charlea's amazing cup cakes

At the end of the day we had raised £64 and had a few bits left over so put them out again on the Tuesday.  In the end we managed to raise a rather respectable £77.12 (can’t forget the 12p!).

(TIP) If you are planning any cake sales at school remember that you will have a lot more people to sell to, potentially hundreds of customers.  Don’t just go and buy a load of cakes, home made ones always look more impressive!  If you can’t do cake sales at school why not ask friends and family if you can send cakes and biscuits in to work with them?  You could make this a weekly or monthly thing. 

Charlea took the lottery bonus ball sweepstake around the office on Wednesday and quickly sold all the numbers. So that’s another £48 to add to our fund. £125.12 for 2 days of fundraising- not too bad even if we do say so ourselves! Lucky Stephen in our planning department won the jackpot for our sweepstake- drinks on him at the Christmas party on tonight!

The winning number

We will be doing some more fundraising events in the New Year as well as carrying on with using Easysearch and easyfundriasing online.

Lisa has also been collecting books to sell on Green Metropolis so we will update you on how she is getting on.
In the meantime we hope you all have a great Christmas break and get some fundraising in over the holidays.

Here we go...

Brainstorming. 

We sat down today and discussed what we wanted to do and how we were going to do it. 
Lisa has already made a start raising money for the National Hospital of Neurology and Neuroscience by selling CD’s with Music Magpie www.musicmagpie.com and selling old books on Green Metropolis www.GreenMetropolis.com.  Along with selling unwanted items on eBay Lisa has already managed to raise a massive £300 in a month!!

As we are so near to Christmas and we don’t have masses of time to organise events we have decided to kick things off with a festive themed lottery bonus ball sweepstake followed with a festive cake sale inspired by one of our recent tweets. Look at http://tulipskitchen.blogspot.com/ for some festive treat inspiration.

We love these reindeer cakes!

The sweepstake is one of the easiest fundraisers that you can do.  All you need is a piece of paper with 49 squares numbered 1 to 49.  Then sell the squares for either £1 or £2.  We are selling ours for £2 with a prize fund of £50 leaving us with a profit of £48 (if we sell all the squares).

Our sweepstake board

When the lottery is drawn on a Saturday night, the person with the winning number wins the pot!  How simple is that?

As for the cake sale this may sound boring but when we held one in the office for the Pakistan Flood relief we managed to raise £84 in just one day.  Hopefully this one will be just as successful!

We will keep you posted with pictures and updates in the coming weeks!

Wish us luck!

Introduction

We know that it can seem daunting at the start when you set out raising money for a World Challenge expedition.  That is why we try to come up with easy and achievable solutions for you.  We thought it was about time that we put our advice in to action to (hopefully) show you that the ideas that we give you to raise money for your expedition actually work!

We have chosen 3 charities to divide the money between, the National Hospital of Neurology and Neuroscience, The Challenger Trust and The Thomas Ball Children’s Cancer Charity Fund.

Why have we chosen these charities? 

Firstly the National Hospital of Neurology and Neuroscience is one close to Lisa’s heart.  Lisa is currently training to run next years London Marathon and has pledged to raise over £1,500 for her cause. 

The National Hospital Development Foundation (NHDF) is the charity dedicated to raising funds for The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, one of the world’s leading centers for the diagnosis, treatment and care of patients with a wide range of neurological conditions. Ten million people in the UK suffer from a neurological condition, either from birth, through injury, or a slowly developing illness that occurs later in life. These include multiple sclerosis (MS), brain and spinal cancer, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and head injury.   http://www.uclh.nhs.uk/Charities+at+UCLH/National+Hospital+Development+Foundation/

Lisa has already started her fundraising and we will keep you updated on her training and fundraising progress.

World Challenge is associated with a charity called The Challenger Trust.  Each year they help a number of students who are experiencing difficulties to experience a once in a lifetime expedition.  At World Challenge we know what valuable experience our expeditions can be so we want to help out as many people as possible. http://www.challengertrust.org/

Our third charity is the Thomas Ball Children’s Cancer Charity Fund, a charity founded in 1999 by Thomas Ball, then aged 9 and himself undergoing treatment for neuroblastoma stage four which had been diagnosed some 20 months earlier.  The main objective of The Thomas Ball Cancer Charity Fund is to relieve sickness and distress among children suffering from cancer and members of their families. Thomas was the charity's most prolific fundraiser - from sponsored bike rides and swimming to dances, discos, draws and raffles. His idea of an annual garden fete in the Buckinghamshire village where he lived brings in approximately £500 each year. http://www.thomasball.org.uk/.

Follow our progress over the coming months to see how we get on.