Hello again!
So carrying on from last time...
Around Christmas time my local church hosts a Christmas fete and seeing as my mum was a member of the church she suggested that I run a stall there. This was cleared with the church and all proceeds from the stall would go to my fundraising - brilliant! Only one dilemma - what stall should I do?! In previous years my family and I had run a game named 'The marble game' but my mum was running that this year so we had to come up with another idea. After searching around the internet for a while we discovered personalised bauble - baubles with your name written on them. After doing more research ( and watching many YouTube videos) we discovered that we could buy some liquid pens which are perfect for writing on plastic and things like baubles.
Getting used to writing in fancy script on a bauble got some getting used to but on the day things turned out quite well. All in all I managed to fundraise £53 which was fab!
The next fundraising 'event' was a stroke of luck. The head of sixth form offered to let me run a cake stall (as well as serve tea and coffee) at the year 11 options evening! Of course I said yes, which then meant that I had to enlist the help of my friends and family to get baking! The event was a great success. At first it didn't really take off but teachers at the event were very generous as were some of the parents. In the end almost all of the cake was gone and we had raised £85!!!! This event was great for talking to people and letting them know about what I was doing. It was especially great doing it at school as teachers are usually generous. (This seems to be the case in many schools according to other PT volunteers.)
Our school has a charity fundraising day called 'Mistletoe Day' which all the year 12s run. I asked to have my own stall there and the school let me (thanks school!). I chose to run the cream cracker challenge and the marble game. The marble game was fairly popular but the cream cracker challenge was a massive hit with the year 7s and 8s who competed against their friends and would keep coming back! I did have to buy crackers and prizes for this but I managed to raise £20!
After the church fete my family and I though about doing a larger event, and we eventually decided upon hosting a ceilidh! Which is fitting seeing as a lot of our family members are Scottish plus ceilidh's are so much fun that I wanted to introduce my friends to them. However setting up a ceilidh takes a lot of time and dedication...
Aaaaand there'll be more on that next time!
