I feel I should update this blog...

Exams seem to have taken over my life for too long but since 11am this morning I have been free!


Since my last update on what my fundraising total is (13th March, £2304.99) it has risen to a fantastic £4304.41! (Pure coincidence it has risen by nearly exactly £2000, quite tempted to see what coins I have in my purse so get that 58p)


Fundraising has merged into a massive blur as to what happened when but since March have had a fantastic donation from a charitable trust, a bag pack, cake sales and now selling tickets to my murder mystery. I also had a fantastic day involved with the village jubilee celebrations holding a toy stall which raised just under £60. This would have been brilliant alone but when asked to explain what I was fundraising for a lady called out to pass a hat around, this hat collected an amazing £168. Today I sold 15 more murder mystery tickets, bringing my total to 22! 1 week left to sell just under 100 tickets, it could happen...possibly! Tickets are £15 each or £10 with a table of 8 so at £15 only need to sell another 53 to finish fundraising :D 


If I don't manage to sell enough tickets then the headteacher at the lovely primary school i work at as a cleaner has said I can do a cake sale after school if needed if the Murder mystery doesn't raise enough.


Donations online at  www.virginmoneygiving.com/AmeliaSykes would also be really greatly appreciated


Thank you, Amelia

Murder Mystery, 29th June

Hall booked, tickets printed, poster and flyers ready to go to the printers...All set for hopefully a brilliant evening!

Thank you Innovation Observatory

Massive thank you to Simon and Danny at Innovation Observatory for the fantastic £100 donation towards my fundraising bringing my current total to £2304.99

Getting there slowly but surely :)

After another cake sale today with marshmallow muffins, lemon loaf and marshmallow, toffee & rice crispy cake raised another £22.05 making my current total £2204 and 99pence.


All this hard work is slowly paying off and the halfway mark is just £345 and a penny away.
Haven't got anything planned before the end of this month other than 2 more cake sales before the march deadline of £2,500 but I'm sure I will think of something, any ideas are welcome, the harder the better for that sense of achievement :D Still organising the June fundraiser but will share the idea once I'm sure its going to happen


Alternatively here is another shameless hint about donations. Thank you :D

Village hall is booked, nearly

My name is in the village hall diary for a fundraising event, just need to fill in the forms and get the idea sorted out then i will be back with more details :D 


Quite excited about this idea :D

I love easyfundraising!!

My Mum last week got a new phone on contract, going through easyfundraising to the o2 site meant that I got a £25 donation :D


My current easyfundraising total is £61.09! All from just purchases made on line which would have been made anyway!


Thank you to everyone who is currently supporting me, if you  would like to find out more about how you can help raise money for my gap year please see raise money for free - easyfundraising

Training dates have been confirmed!

:D and there is a possibility I am going to be spending my 18th birthday on a train home from Scotland! Hopefully when we find out more info about training the ferry will get back early enough to be able to get the train on the same day, as 9 hours on a train on my birthday isn't very appealing (also Mum wants me home on my birthday as I will be in South Africa for Christmas and my 19th birthday) but I am very much looking forward to training, especially meeting the people i am going to be spending a year with!!! Very exciting!!! and also will be with 2 members from the group I was in on selection as they are on training the same week so will be great to see them again (go group A :D )