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At our final long training session together our feet were starting to say " What walking again!"
We have done the training now it's the support teams turn to take over with all the logistics. Over to you Dave, Kieran, Bill, Tim, Len and Kev.

Please go to our Justgiving website and donate what you can afford. We really do appreciate any amount given. You can leave a message of support with your donation. If you have our mobile numbers you could send us a text message of support during the walk. We will get the messages when we walk into a point where signals can be received. Not too many drunken messages from the football campers please! I am going to try and make regular updates on Facebook you can follow us there during the walk if you wish.

Fundraising Plant Sale

The kids' school have very kindly allowed me to sell our plants to parents after school. I need to look at our marketing strategy though as the ice cream stall moved and a lot of the traffic did not go past our stall as was anticipated. Some serious promotion is needed! We'll see if we can do better over the next couple of days (Aprentices eat your heart out, watch this space Alan Sugar) I need to get the orders for pots and baskets rolling in.

Had a support team meeting

The walkers and support team all met (in a pub) to bash out all the logistical details, there is so much planning involved in this event, we need a driver and backup person on support all the time from 6 am Saturday am to Sunday am with each person only doing 8 hour stints before having a rest, and we are trying to overlap personel so that at no time is there a completely new support team. we have been through all the check lists to make sure that we have all the equipment necessary. After having to use the first aid kit twice in a fortnight I have been through and made sure we have everything we need, including strapping that is up to the job instead of the flimsey bandage that was in the kit!

New Team Member

We welcome Diana to our team; unfortunateley Tim had to pull out because of his knee.

Using e-Bay to fundraise

Has not been the greatest success yet, it will take a while to get up and running with selling - I have only bought items before. I am going to list the better items leftover from the table top sale at the coffee morning. Normally it would have gone to the charity shop but I am going to give this a go.

I have been working out the best place to take the photos. I then started by listing a pair of trousers I bought for one of the boys that never got used. It took a while, I had to make a picture of a word document giving information about trailwalker and Life's Voyagers. I then needed to work out what all the options did thatt you coudl chooses when selling; a number of time I went to look at a preview only to loose great chunks of text that I had typed in! Finally got the trousers listed and I thought I would have a go at a second item by copying the first and adapting it, unwittingly I was revising the trousers and morphing them into a girls denim jacket, I got thoroughly confused but worked out what happened eventually.

It has now been bid upon if it stays at this price I will just about cover my costs after the debacle of setting up, hopefully in the future it will go a lot smoother!
Look at my items for sale here
http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZbrunette_400QQhtZ-1

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Easter Sunday

Made £51.30 this morning finishing the raffle, guess the weight of the cake and name the teddy. Thankyou to all who helped.

More importantly there was some serious interest in my request for a fourth walker.