Sponsored Silence

I have a number of friends who are supporting me with my World Challenge funding by helping me organize events and offering me moral support.

On the 16th April one of my friends, Christie, did a sponsored silence for me. This meant she couldn't talk for the whole school day (around 7hours) and for people who know Christie this was a VERY hard task for her to do! 

We asked people to fill out a sponsor form to see if people were willing/how much they would donate, if she actually did it the challenge and we got 79 people saying they would sponsor!  So we thought it was definitely worth it! We made a promise to everyone saying if Christie spoke during the time she was suppose to be silent,  they wouldn't have to pay but when she realized she had raised over £100 for me, she was certain she would do it!

 

Christie was equipped with her whiteboard, marker pen and a board rubber just in case someone spoke to her!..

...But as you can imagine for a 16-year-old chatter box, spending the whole day silent wasn't the easiest thing in the world so we had to take a dramatic step to help her achieve her goal!

 

I would like to say a HUGE thank you to Christie for all of the effort she put into this fundraiser and for raising me a whopping £138!!! 

I would also like to thank everybody who donated! 

Rianna x

Bag2TheFuture

On the World Challenge website there is a list of great fund-raising ideas, I saw one called 'bag2thefuture'. My mum and I looked into it and thought it sounded quite good as its 100% free to take part, you just have to contact the company on their website or by phone. All you have to do is fill up bags of good and reusable clothes/shoes, the company then pick up the bags and weight them. The more the bags weigh, the more money is earned!

So we sent off my details and around a week letter a huge bag came in the post full of little sealed bags like this:

They have all the information and rules on them, including what items are allowed in the bag. At first I wasn't completely sure if it was a good idea as we could sell good clothes at a car boot sale for possibly more money but then again selling all the old clothes my family and I have at booties would take months, so this is a great way of getting money and making more space in wardrobes quite fast! 

First of all I gave the bags to family members and to a few friends, I wasn't initially sure if I would get a lot of clothes but I was completely wrong! After two weeks I already have 22 bags, we are still waiting for a few more people to return their bags and I still haven't even sorted out my house! My nan filled up 4 bags, one of my friends has filled up 5 bags and still has 2 to give me and others have filled up loads too! Each bag weights quite a lot so I'm hoping the money will all add up! 

This is my house at the moment! As you can imagine, my mum isn't very please! 

I'll keep you all updated with the end result and how much I make from this! If you have a lot of family members, friends or neighbours I would recommend doing this as a fund-raiser!

Rianna x

A good start to the new month

So this week has been a success! (It feels good to say that!) I did two events, but didn't make as much as I wanted too but then again, I made £40. So it's better than nothing, right?


Competition
My 'guess the baby competition' went well, I had 40 people enter and I raised around £20. After lots of people getting the answers right, I had a teacher pick out the winners name at random. The lucky winner, Chloe Hicks, won a £5 voucher. Congrats Chloe!

Car boot Sale
Yesterday my sister, Charlotte, came home from uni and we sorted out all of our old clothes/junk that we didn't need anymore, we ended up clearing out a whole spare room and filled up 3 big bags of clothes and one of shoes! We also had a few boxes of toys, picture frames and other random things.


After looking through the local newspaper we decided to go to Nash Mill car boot sale in Kings Langley this morning which was the first one we have done this year as the car boot sale season has only just started. We got rid of quite a bit but only made £35 between us, which was a shame as we expected to get a lot more!

7AM this morning in the freezing cold, nothing stopped us!

Charlotte is home for another week so we are hoping to do 2 more car boots sales next weekend, hoping that as it is the Easter weekend we will get a bigger and better crowd. Fingers crossed!


I'll keep you posted,
Rianna x