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My Fund-Raising
Diary
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October
8/10/00
- Car boot
Sale in Edinburgh: £50 raised.
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- 11/10/00
- 12 tubes
of smarties given out. They are to be filled with 20p
pieces (by February) but there is a prize for the first
full one returned !
- 12/10/00
- My
homebaking was selling like hotcakes in the School
Staffroom. Thanks to all those famished teachers I raised
£17 today.
- 13/10/00
- A further
£7 raised from staffroom cakes
- A special
thanks to two teachers at Madras College who gave me
£50 and £10 donations
- 17/10/00
- 400
leaflets printed at a great discount by the new St
Andrews Printers on South Street
- 22/10/00
- Some
leaflets distributed round neighbours
- 23/10/00
- Staffroom
cakes £5 and the first tube of smarties returned
with £14 from Ben Pippard who wins the cake. Thank
you Ben. I received an E-mail from Friends
of Malawi Organisation who may be able to
help with a local project in Malawi once I am
there.
- 24/10/00
- £7
from baking.
- 28/10/00
- £30
donations received from two kind neighbours. Some letters
and leaflets sent to local firms.
- 30/10/00
- £10
from staffroom baking.
- 31/10/00
- A further
£20 from neighbours and £10 from a teacher at
school.
November
1/11/00
- £15
from staffroom cakes. £10 from a neighbour. I
provided biscuits & cakes for the Courier Debate
hosted by Madras College. The good news was that this
raised a further £12 and the Madras College team got
through to round two!
- 2/11/00
- £20
from another kind member of staff and £10 from a
neighbour. £2 from the rest of the baking left over
from the debate. St
Andrews Links Trust sent a magnificent colour poster "The 25
Open Champions Over The Old Course At St Andrews" which I
will use in the raffle this Sunday.
- 4/11/00
- A friend
donated £350 !! Total so far: £666.
- 5/11/00
- I held a
very successful Afternoon Tea in Crail which raised
£70. Thanks to Duncan Lewis, Ali Hood, Lydia
Dunkerley, Ben Pippard, Kevin Grossett and Rob Crawford
for their help. A special thanks to Claire Jarvis (P7
Crail Primary School) for running the raffle so well and
to Louise Mead for welcoming people at the door.
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- 6/11/00
- Staffroom
baking made £20 today.
- 7/11/00
- £16
from baking and £10 donation from a friend.
- 8/11/00
- A further
£15 from baking and donations totalling £42
from friends.
- 9/11/00
- £18
from my baking in the staffroom.
- 11/11/00
- Two
donations from friends totalling £35.
- 13/11/00
- The
Project Trust WebSite has a link to my WebSite: see
THE
LINK
- 15/11/00
- Donation
of £10 in the post.
- 16/11/00
- Thanks to
one of the office staff at the school for baking a cake
and raising £7.
- 17/11/00
- £20
from family friends in Crail. Total so far:
£929
- 25/11/00
- Christmas
Cards designed by my sister Mia are now ready for sale. I
have a WebPage
Advert and will also sell them at school. My
first order for £9 was made today.
- 28/11/00
- Staffroom
baking made £12. Christmas card orders totalled an
amazing £47.
- 29/11/00
- I've
passed £1000!!!! Staffroom baking made another
£15 today with a further £9 from my Christmas
Cards.
- 30/11/00
- Cakes in
the staffroom raised £15 today with another order of
£5 for christmas cards.
December
- 1/12/00
- £8
from staffroom baking. £5 more orders for christmas
cards. This makes the total so far raised:
£1053.
- 2/12/00
- Local
shops have agreed to display my christmas cards.
- 3/12/00
- Very
successful Carboot sale at The Cosmos Centre, St Andrews
where I made £28 selling baking (Pictures to
follow!).
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- 4/12/00
- Baking in
the staffroom raised £17. Christmas cards raised
£7 from staff and £9 from pupils.
- 5/12/00
- Staffroom
baking was £16 today. More orders for cards worth
£9.
- 6/12/00
- £10
from staffroom baking.
- 7/12/00
- Staffroom
cakes today raised a further £9.
- 8/11/00
- A great
day for Christmas Cards with orders for £20.
- 10/11/00
- Was
invited to talk to the St Andrews Quaker Youth Group
about my Project Trust placement. They organised a bake
sale for me at Meeting and raised £80. A further
£5 from Christmas Cards.
- 11/11/00
- I was
allowed to have a stall at the school concert where I
provided cakes and biscuits for parents. Mr Matheson, the
Rector of the school, announced my fund raising after the
concert and I raised £56. There was also a £4
order for cards.
- 12/11/00
- £21
raised from the rest of my baking being sold to hungry
teachers at interval and lunch today.
- 13/11/00
- The
Christmas cards are going well: a further £20 worth
of arders today. £3 from baking. I have also been
asked to provide refreshments at a meeting at the school
next week in return for a contribution to my funds. This
makes the total so far raised: £1367.
- 14/11/00
- Wonderful
news! Leckie-and-Leckie, the St Andrews publishers have
decided to sponsor me. A cheque for £100 arrived in
the post. A further £30 also arrived from two family
friends.
- 15/11/00
- £20
from a family friend and £14 from stafroom cakes
today.
- 18/11/00
- £15
from baking in the staffroom and £15 for catering
for the Support Unit's Millenium Project party at the
school.
- 20/11/00
- £12
from staffroom baking and £10 from a family
friend.
- 21/11/00
- £5
from baking.
- 28/12/00
- Two
cheques arrived today from family friends, one for
£150 and one for £30.
January
- 5/1/01
- £5
from a friend.
- 9/1/01
- Back in
business!! £11 from staffroom baking. £6 from a
filled smarty tube -- thank you Jenny.
- 10/1/01
- £9
from baking. £20 from a neighbour for looking after
two rats over the holidays!!
- 12/1/01
- £11
from staffroom baking.
- 14/1/01
- £13
raised at an indoor carboot sale in St Andrews.
- 15/1/01
- A further
£9 from staffroom cakes.
- 16/1/01
- £13
from staffroom baking. The staff must have liked my new
recipes!!
- 17/1/01
- Great day
for my cakes ... £17.
- 18/1/01
- £8
from the staff for cakes etc. I also raised £4 for
supplying the catering at the School Board meeting this
evening.
- 19/1/01
- £4
for staffroom cakes.
- 20/1/01
- A generous
and unexpected donation of £100 today has pushed my
total up to £1998. I also learned today that a
Dundee based Charitable Trust wishes to interview me on
9th February.
- 22/1/01
- Another
generous donation today from the Crail Pottery who
sponsored me for a week in Malawi. A further £7 from
staffroom baking. This evening I set up a baking stall at
the S5/S6 parents night and raised an amazing £55.
Thanks to all these generous parents!
- 24/1/01
- £12
for baking.
- 26/1/01
- Thank you
to Mr Lindsay, Principal Teacher of English at my school
for donating the sales of his annual Burn's Supper poem
to my Malawi funds. This remarkable poem mentions every
S6 pupil at Madras College by name. This is an amazing
achievement as Madras College has the largest S6 in
Scotland ... how does he do it?!! I will be selling
copies of the poem at school during the next few weeks.
Already sales have raised £13.
- 29/1/01
- £6
from staff baking and sales from Mr Lindsay's Poem raised
another £13.
- 30/1/01
- I had a
stall at the S4 Parents Night and raised an amazing
£103 from baking. Mr Leckie of Leckie-and-Leckie
donated 50p to me for each revision book he sold at his
stall and in return I gave a free cake to his customer.
This raised a further £13 and generated a lot of
interest since he had printed lots of "Free Chocolate
Cake" leaflets for all the parents. It was all great fun.
The local press was interested so .... watch this
space!!
February
- 1/2/01
- £8
from staffroom baking today.
- 5/2/01
- £15
from cakes in the staffroom.
- 6/2/01
- Another
£14 from staffroom goodies today.
- 7/2/01
- I did the
catering for the birthday party of a daughter of a member
of staff and was given a very generous £25.
- 9/2/01
- £6
from Cakes. I had an interview in Dundee following my
application to the Lethendy Charitable Trust and was
awarded £350 towards my fund raising.
- 11/2/01
- An
donation of £30 from family friends today.
- 12/2/01
- A very
generous donation of £50 from a teacher at the
school who asked me to povide quiches, cakes and
tray-bakes for her special birthday party.
- 13/2/01
- £6
from staffrom baking.
- 14/2/01
- £8
from staffroom mbaking today. A donation of £100
from The Russell Trust came by post today.
- 15/2/01
- A £50
sponsorship from Curtis Fine Papers Ltd, Guardbridge,
Fife arrived today.
- 16/2/01
- Great
news! A donation of £800 towards my year's placement
in Malawi from the "1989 Willan Charitable Trust" takes
my total to £3752. The essential organisational
costs of £3350 have now been raised. Any funds
raised above this total will contribute towards my
day-by-day living costs in Malawi and towards extra
resources that may be needed to help fund projects in the
local community during my placement.
- 19/2/01
- £17
from baking in the staffroom today.
- 25/2/01
- A donation
of £100 taday from family.
- 26/2/01
- A further
£30 from a kind teacher at my school who has raised
some funds for me! Total raised so far £3899.
- 28/2/01
- A kind
donation from a lady that has a daughter living in Malawi
in response to my newspaper article in the
Citizen.
March
- 6/3/01
- £12
from staffroom baking.
- 7/3/01
- A further
£6 from baking.
- 13/3/01
- £10
from the staffroom baking.
- 16/3/01
- A further
£6 collected from the sale of Mr Lindsay's poem at
school.
- 27/3/01
- £10
from my staffroom cakes.
- 29/3/01
- £15
from staffroom baking and £8 from catering for a
meeting of the Madras College School Board.
April
- 18/4/01
- £7
from sales of Mr Lindsay's Poem in staffroom.
- 22/4/01
- £200
from Wigton Friends School Trust.
May
- 4/5/01
- £6
from staffroom cakes.
June
- 19/6/01
- I'm back
doing baking again!! £19 from the staff at the
school today.
- 20/6/01
- Another
£7 from yesterday's remnants.
- 21/6/01
- £4
from staffroom baking. That takes my total so far to
£4234.
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