First of all, we now have a venue for our 'Race Night', it's booked for Saturday 15th February 2014 at the Transport Club. It's got plenty of space and more importantly, it's cheap, we don't have to pay to hire the hall we can hire it for free if one of us becomes a member and pays the annual £20.80 membership fee. So that's good news. Also, Alex, a friend of a friend, is going to help us run the race night (for a small fee of course) which he has done many times before and he has all the equipment we need so we don't need to hire any of that which is good. So all we need to do now is get raffle prizes sorted out, get tickets printed and sell some horses.
Secondly, we have now also organised a Charity Battle of the Bands event which is going to be held in the Tunnels on Friday 10th January 2014. The Tunnels are letting us hold the event there free of charge which means that any money we make from it goes straight towards our fundraising. So far we have 3 confirmed bands, 'Zodiac Arrest', 'Taxi for Bongo' and Mike Weber and his band. We still need to find at least 3 more bands to compete but I am already on the case, I have emailed a bunch of bands and am awaiting their replies. As we cannot pay the bands to play we are organising prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. Tickets for this event will be available to purchase on the door.
As far as the Dinner Dance goes, we have some more good news. My friends son plays the bagpipes and has agreed to play while the guests arrive. We also have a folk band lined up to play a live set and a DJ who will play while people are eating and after the folk band have finished their set.
Yesterday we did some bag packing in Morrisons on King Street dressed in onesies. My dad and my friend Sarah came along to help us, also dressed in onesies. My sister Lianne was going to come and help but she got a little confused and turned up at Sainsburys instead. Sarah and mum were packing bags on the tills while my dad and I were stood out in the cold at the front doors collecting money from people as they were entering and leaving the supermarket. Despite the cold, wet and windy weather the bag packing day was a success. Sarah raised £52.58, mum raised £106.31, dad raised £137.30 and I raised £191.20, so in total we managed to raise £487.39 so nae too shabby!!
Other then all that, we have kept ourselves busy emailing companies asking for donations for raffle prizes and for the auction, which seems to be going very slowly. We have emailed hundreds of companies and so far we have a £525 voucher for Bedlam paint-balling, two £50 vouchers from Sailor Max Tattoo Parlour and a voucher from Ishoka Hair Salon which is still in the post but hopefully we will receive more donations through soon.
We have also been busy trying to sell some stuff on Ebay and we have a massive pile of clothes donated from various friends for the next car boot sale. We also have our first fancy dress pub crawl on the 8th November so keep your eyes peeled for photographs from that, hopefully it will be another successful fundraising event.
Again,if anybody would like to join in and help with our fundraising please get in touch so we can sort out your licence. Also, if anybody would like to sponsor us, you can do so through justgiving:
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