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40 Cakes, cakes cakes! ?

Yesterday, the Herefordshire arm of the family held a coffee morning, cake sale and raffle to raise funds for our campaign.  

Jimmy and Gill have a brewery business and have been selling raffle tickets to brewery visitors for a few weeks now.  They managed to gather some super prizes from the local community, as well as donating some of their own produce.  

 

Gill is renowned in our family, for her amazing culinary skills, which she seems to have passed on to Anna and Zeb!

 

The event took place in their lovely home and it looks as if it was lots of fun.  Anyone who follows Swan Brewery on Facebook will know that Gill never misses an opportunity to dress up and this was no exception.

And just look at those amazing cakes! 

There were a few cakes left at the end of the morning so Anna and Zeb packed them up and sold them to some of the spectators at the village football game in the afternoon. 

Today, they have managed to count all their takings (including a jar of pennies donated by their neighbour!)

The grand total of all their hard work is …

This brings our grand total past the £6,000 mark ..I am so grateful to everyone who has helped us to get this far ?

Thank you for all your efforts Anna, Zeb, Gill and Jimmy and also the people of Wellington and customers of Swan Brewery ?

You can find out more about how Swan Brewery was born, their environmentally friendly ethos and their amazing selection of beers here …

www.swanbrewery.co.uk

They are also on Facebook and Twitter. 

In other news…

The cycling lads are out in the freezing Peak District as I am writing this …I’m just hoping they manage to avoid the snow that has fallen there over the last 48 hours! 

We now have so many local musicians volunteering for our evening event in the new year, that we may need to have two events! 

We are planning to contact local media at some point but things are already starting to happen without us doing anything!  I have been contacted by a company who are making a documentary for Channel 4 about people funding their own medical treatment and Niamh has established a contact at Smooth Radio.

In the meantime, please follow us on Instagram and Twitter and share with your contacts.  Thanks again for your continuing support ?

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35 Fundraising news

Well, a couple of days ago, this happened …

100 donations in one month!!  Thank you so much each and every one of you xxx

The sponsorship money from the Manchester Half Marathon is still coming in so I don’t have a total for that just yet. 

Connor, Alex and Gleaves have been out training on their mountain bikes today.

Having said that she’d never run again, Niamh, along with Callum, Jess and Jake, has signed up for the Wilmslow Festive 10K run on 25th November.  She is still resting up to allow her hip injury to heal, then all 4 will be training in earnest!  

We also have some other fundraisers coming together …

My Prosecco loving friend, Julie, is giving up booze for a whole month! 

My niece Fiona has signed up for a 10K and my sister Glenda, for a sponsored Nordic walk event.

My sister in law, Gill is hosting a coffee morning next weekend, including yummy cakes (she is an excellent baker) and a raffle.  

I’d like to hold some sort of cake related event too …I seem to have so many cake making friends!  Maybe some sort of Bake Off or something along those lines?  Or a good old fashioned cake sale? Or something Christmas related?  If anyone has any ideas, please give me a shout.

We are still working on a possible sky dive and a long haired person is considering a drastic hair cut, in exchange for donations …watch this space for more information on that soon!

We are planning an evening event to take place in January.  We have a fabulous venue and plans coming together for music, food, drink, a raffle and a silent auction.  

So, this is my next request for help …

  • Do you have anything you could donate as a raffle prize or silent auction item?
  • Do you own a business and would be able to donate services, a beauty treatment, a meal or anything else we could raffle or auction?
  • Do you have any contacts at venues who could donate event tickets?
  • Do you have a connection to anyone famous who could donate items?
  • Do you have connections with anyone who could help with any of the above? 

If you can help with any of the above, or you have any other ideas for fundraising, please give one of us a shout.