Just a quick update!

Unfortunatley I havent been able to do any events this month because it has been the start of my GCSE's so it has been non-stop revision! Even though I've had no time to actually put on a fundraiser, I have been planning ahead and have been sorting out which month I'm going to do what;

What have I got planned?

Name the teddy raffle - June

Curry  Night - July

6-a-side football tournoment - August

Skydive - August 

Quiz Night - September 

Bag2Future - October

Bag2Future Collection

After asking plenty of friends and family to turn their wardrobes upside down and inside out to donate clothes towards this fundraiser, I collected 41 bags all together which added up to 220kilos. Through this I made £110 so I would like to thank everyone who donated clothes and promoted this event for me! 

Rianna x 

Sponsored Run!

As a lot of people know, I am not the biggest sports fan and it takes A LOT to get me to run somewhere but, World Challenge is all about challenging yourself and trying new things..right? So on Sunday I ran a 5K sponsored run! This event was organized by World Challenge in Wellington Country Park, near reading. If I avoid the reminder of the weather and mud, it was actually a lot of fun!

  

There was around 600 people there from all over the country also taking part in World Challenge as well as spectators cheering us along, there was also an interviewer who got people up on the stage (including me!) and asked them where they are going/what they have been doing for fundraising etc, so it was great to hear a few fundraising ideas but I did get a little jealous when I heard about the great countries other people are going too like Costa Rica, Argentina and the Amazon! (But to be fair Africa sounds so much cooler then all of them!) 

Scott, Grace and I getting interviewed

Originally this was a 5, 10 or 15k sponsored run however because the weather was so bad and literally turned the track into a mud bath, it got limited down to a 5k power-walk which I was actually quite happy about because after seeing the conditions the field was in, I was not looking forward to running in it at all! 

 

Believe it or not, the track we had to run on was 10 times muddier than this! 



  Of course a bit of rain wasn't going to stop my fellow Challengers and I, so after our 15 minute 'aerobic warm up', we had the 5 second count down and off we went!!

It took me much longer than I wanted it too but because of the weather being so bad and we had to walk instead of run, but in the end I finished in 46mins41 seconds (which I am still extremely proud of!!) and even got a World Challenge goodie bag which included a new logoed top and cap, so it was smiles all around. I also raised £175 from this event so it was definitely worth it!



Me and a friend from my group, Scott, with our new goodie bags!



Once again, I would like to say thank you for everyone who donated and encouraged me to take part!

Rianna x

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

Slowly but surely!

Sorry I haven't posted in so long, I've had so many exams recently and have been extremely busy so haven't had time! But some good news, the money is coming along well!

Last Monday, I went to a local pub for their quiz and curry night to see how it all works. It was so much fun and a great night out, so I decided I'm going to do another one as a fund-raiser! I am hoping to have a raffle there too so I should get quite a bit of money that night (fingers crossed!)

On Monday I had a few lovely donations and sponsor offers including:

• BC Dent Removal (www.removedent.co.uk)
• Cansdales (www.cansdales.co.uk - admin work)

Last Saturday my mum and I did a car boot sale, basically selling all of the junk in our house. First of all we were not starting off too well but once people came in we got rid of half the things we took and made around £35, seeing as the crowd wasn't very big, we thought that was pretty good! We are planning to do two car boot sales a month until we get rid of all the junk and raise a bit of money!  

Following this, my mum and I have put a few items on eBay which she is giving me a percentage from the total of, so hopefully I will get a bit of money from that too! 

I'll keep you posted,

Rianna

Weekly Update

Well this week has been a rollorcoaster!

Firsly I got the news that I have two new sponsors, so thank you very much to:

• MTS (www.mts-events.co.uk - PA equipment for events)
• Grand Property Show (www.grandpropertyshow.com -admin work)

Now the bad news..

I had a school disco booked for Friday 9th March however we had to cancel because of lack of tickets bought :(. My friend and I (also doing World Challenge) promoted the disco, putting posters up all around school, sending emails to the parents, mentioning it in assemblies and going around to all of the classrooms but apparently no-one wanted to go to it. So unfortunately for us, we have lost out on money.

On the other hand, I have two fundraisers coming up!

 I have applied to do the sponsored run near Reading which is organised by World Challenge on the April 29th which I'm sooo excited about! However, I am not in the right form to do it and need some SERIOUS working out time before hand!

I am indescisive whether to do the 5km or the 10km because the girls I'm going with are doing the 10 but I'm not 100% certain if I can do that much! But I don't want to be running in Reading alone!

As well as this, I am doing a 'guess the baby' competition at school! This is where 4-6 teachers give me a picture of them as a baby and I make it into a poster with their names jumbled up so the students have to choose who is who. I will charge 50p to enter the competition, everyone who guesses right will go into a lucky dip and the winner will get a £5 voucher for our local shopping centre, The Harlequin. This should be great fun so I'm hoping a lot of people will take part!

I'll keep you posted on how they both go,

Rianna x