Charity Fundraising

[Laura]

At this year's event we will be raising funds for:

Make-A-Wish Foundation

[Dave Freeman]

Really good choice Laura, do we have a target in mind and if so we could put a small barometer on the site to see how well we are doing. Any novel ideas to raise cash.........sure we will do well.

it has my full support.............

Dave

[Laura]

The blue box at the end of my post is a barometer counting up to

[Kimbers]

Laura. What a great charity to support!!

Could we not do an online sponsorship form that we can print off and get sponsors for the Convoy? That would seem the best way to collect extra money off work friends/family etc. Make a wish may even have one they can send to you. Maybe they may alos have pins/stickers where everyone on the convoy can invest in one to help the fund?

[Laura]

Kimbers, the idea behind Just Giving is to alleviate the need for sponsorship forms, collecting cash & more importantly it also makes claiming gift aid much easier.

If you want to get people to sponsor you point them in the direction of the just giving page, it's there for everyone to collect all their sponsorship in one big place so we can see how much we're all collecting together, it also means donations/sponsorships are instant, there's no going around after the event asking for your 50p's of that fella you only see once a week which never eventually comes in.

We are in regular contact with Make-A-Wish about the event and we have long sorted out collections on the day, pin badges and the like don't worry

If you want to email or print out something to give to people how about this:

Make_A_Wish_Donations.pdf

[Bibs]

How's the fund-raising going then folks, who has raised what so far?

[Laura]

Don't forget about this folks, if anyone can't make it but would like to donate or you'd like to ask friends & family to donate it would be great to have a head start on the weekend.

Also, there will be a raffle/auction on the Saturday night, if anybody would like to donate a prize please let me know. This can be on behalf of your company or personal and does not have to be Lotus/Motoring related. A gift voucher for your company/services or a hamper donated in your name etc would be great. Of course any companies/individuals would be credited for their donations, please pm me if you have any ideas/offers.

[Laura]

Yes I know it's October & yes I know Christmas is a long way off but there's no denying it's in the shops already! As we can't beat 'em we've joined 'em and we will be selling Christmas cards at the event all in aid of Make-A-Wish of course. There are lots of lovely designs to choose from and they are priced at

[Kimbers]

Cool. I'll have 3 of Rob Cunninghams excellent Digital prints available for the Auction, signed by both Rob and MJK, if you want him to.

[Laura]

We'll post up the money raised soon as we have a total, there are still funds to come in, I'll be in touch with people that still need to pay up tomorrow to give them the details. Having a look at what's in the buckets & been donated online so far looks like we've broken the

[Bibs]

We might be nipping past

[ILoveEsprit]

Done!

[Bibs]

TOTAL -

[rocket63]

Fabulous

[Bibs]

Once all the gift aid, christmas cards and cash collections are done we just got this

[Advantage]

Good effort everyone, especially Lisa!

[Kimbers]

Brilliant!!

[Simon350S]

Thats a good amount of money, hopefully it will make many wishes come true.

Err... and thanks Mr P, Lisa is busy for the next charity auction, oh and all the ones thereafter as well!!!!