I have now hit my target!! So how did i do it?!

What a relief to see that 100% on my website! I cant quite believe that i managed it, but here i am with the hardest bit over ;-) ready and raring to go!

so...as i'm enjoying writing my little stories I thought that I would write a little bit (well...i'll try to write a little bit, but being the chatterbox that i am, it may be a little more!) about how i managed to achieve my target.

First and foremost there was the kindness and generosity of friends, family and also employees at Reckitt Benckiser who hardly knew me! Not to mention the people I spent 5 days on a Health and Safety course with! Thanks to Mary, Jen and Paul, who got the ball rolling with their very generous donations :-) Always a lot of pressure on the first to be generous!

Madeleine and I got on the case with other fundraising ideas pretty much straight away and came up with:

Putting collection boxes in the coffee shop

This has provided us with a steady flow of donations over the last 7 months or so.

The Sodexho Indian Themed Meal

This was a fantastically successful event where we persuaded Reckitt Benckiser to pay for Sodexho to hold an Indian themed lunchtime in the staff canteen, for which all sales landed on our websites! We couldn't believe that it was all being donated to us, we expected just the profits! We did a lot of promotion for the event, which was held during Save the Children week (cunning eh?!) and then decorated the canteen with balloons and banners on the day. We stood and flashed our smiles at people as they were picking up their trays...not sure if this helped or not....but i think it did! Oh and also one of the guys who worked in the canteen was a DJ (happy coincidence!) so brought in his equipment and erm....interesting music collection (mostly 80's cheese if i remember rightly!) which perked up the diners too! We raised a whopping £240 each from this!

Crazy Hat Day

Another event held during Save the Children week (yes the people of RB Hull do hate us!) I believe that this was one of my crazy ideas, a little different to a dress down day...and I have to say, much more fun! We asked people to come to work in a crazy hat (or just a hat!) on this day and pay us for the privilege :-) Madeleine and I made our hats for the day out of witches hats...and i bet you cant guess what we made them in to?...yes you've got it....Mountains! They were great i have to say! We had a lot of good hats worn and although there wasn't a huge percentage of hat wearers wandering around we did raise £81.15 each! I do think that a lot of our donations were from people who were guilted into it due to the lack of headwear!

Following this event we received a lovely email to tell us that the Sales and Marketing team had hosted a 'dress down day' instead of 'crazy hat day' and had a donation of £35 for us!

Easter Cake Sale

As it was Easter, and it is the law to eat chocolate at this happy time ;-) we decided to don our aprons and knock together some Easter buns...these comprised chocolate cornflakes/coco pops/all bran to make little nests, which housed a few mini eggs...how sweet! They went down very well and we sold out! From this we raised £32.27 each!

From this event we also drummed up a bit of extra cake selling business...we received an offer of £35 each to make some more buns for a meeting held by Stuart Shaw in Sales and Marketing...which we did!

Veet Product Sale

We were given a huuuuuge load of Veet products which we were told we could sell in order to raise money for our charity...so we did! We set ourselves up in the canteen (following an interesting experience with a dumb waiter!) and asked for donations for the products. These flew out, which raised an extra £87.63 for us!

Body Shop Fundraiser

My wonderful mum held a body shop party, where she promoted my event and managed to get £35 from a raffle and donations from friends :-)

Harpic Sales

Mike in NTG decided to ask for donations for some harpic products that were going as swag, which raised £3.72 each!

Hen do dares

Whilst out on a hen do in "fame" costume I made myself a little bit from doing dares...Pauline, my netball coach convinced people to give money for me to be daft (which i am fine with!)...i raised £9 from doing the splits and running across the dance floor and doing a "fame leap"!

Grand National Sweepstake

The lovely Mary Pratt organised a Grand National Sweepstake and donated the money to me...thanks Mary! This got me £27!

Cricket World Cup Sweepstake

Using an idea given to me very kindly by Madeleine i organised a sweepstake for the cricket world cup...this raised £20!


I think that's about it, as well as the Summer Ball and Netball tournament. I hope you've enjoyed reading...it was certainly fun doing most of this!

I will post some photo's as soon as i can :-)