Fundraising Update

Coffee Morning - had hoped for more people. A big thankyou to all who did come they were very supportive. I'll carry the raffle, cake and teddy on after mass on Sunday, hopefully will catch a lot of people with it being Easter
Choir Debut Performance - Took name the teddy and guess the weight of the cake along and managed to raise over £26 - this bodes well for sunday.
Tombola - had a very productive meeting at Farnborough Leisure Centre. Manager suggested Easter Saturday not a very good day as is not their busiest; they have suggested lots of other better times. I have now got plenty of contacts at the council and they suggested I could try and get the mayor along for the photo opportunity - I think this is a fantastic idea. It made me think of having a Gurkha piper and drummer along as well; the GWT are fine with this but I will need to fix a date when the mayor is available and the centre is busy, that's my next task - as well as the ongoing one of obtaining raffle prizes. The Leisure Centre have come up trumps with these as well they have offered a load of vouchers for the bowling, cafe & play area and even 3 months full membership of the centre. Thankyou very much for all of these, they will be put to good use.

Fundraising progress...

Result. We have permission for a coffee morning to be held at Holy Trinity Church Hall in Church Crookham on Monday 4th April. There will be a table top sale, raffle, guess the weight of the cake, guess the name of the teddy, how many sweets in the jar and plent of tea, coffee and cakes.

Birdworld have offered three sets of tickets as prizes for the team to use.

The Gurkha Welfare Trust and Oxfam have both been very helpful in my efforts to organise a public tombola. All I need is a venue for Easter Saturday. I'm still working on this!

We have ordered 480 plant plugs to bring on and sell. We no longer have a green house ourselves so a request for help is about to go out to friends for some space in their greenhouses.

It looks like we will hopefully be able to organise a public collection at a local Tesco - watch this space...

Just received an information pack from Oxfam

This contains a fundraising guide, a treasure map (friends and family please note - I'll explain what these are in a minute), sponsor forms, and a Timeline leading up to the event.

Treasure Maps:

These are world maps with a grid of 100 numbered squres which are sold for £2 each. The winning square is announced and a £50 prize is given to the winner. What this needs to work is a person who works in a large company and is willing to act as a promoter on our teams' behalf, you need to secure permission from your employer to run this for us. There are various rules and regulations which are very clearly explained on the back of the map. Oxfam print the maps and will send us as many as we need, so all you family and friends who think you may be able to help us raise £150 in sponsorship please get in touch with one of us. Thanks.

It's official ...

Life's Voyagers are registered as a team! Though we've had a minor hiccup in that we only have 3 team members committed to the walk, our fourth walker unfortunately had to pull out. Nevertheless we remain positive and hopefully this situation will get resolved early in the New Year. Oxfam are meant to be sending me some posters to put up in my local gym etc to drum up some interest. At least now we can start training and fundraising in earnest. The Justgiving site has been set up and a link to it from here has now been added; at last we can start to publicise our blog and fundraising page http://www.justgiving.com/lifesvoyagers