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.