Last Days at School

Having my last day at school has meant that things are starting to look real for going away.  After exams are out the way that's when more fundraising starts!

I got back another smarite tubes from Mrs Mcfarlane so thank you!

I also got a donation/ceilidh ticket money from my mum's cousin Paul, thank you, that was was lovely!

In my last week at school, I had one final bake sale and also a raffle for two Easter Eggs.  I raised £169.55 from that so thank you to everyone who bought a cake and a raffle ticket.

And well done to Lauren who won one of the Easter Eggs and to the wee boy who won the other won, who I can't remember his name right now.. But he was pleased he won it!

On 27th March, my birthday, the school had a Neds vs Neons disco for the fifth and sixth years.  It's a great night and involved more foundation than I've ever worn in my whole life put together.  But from that night, as a donation from the school, sixth years and Mr McClure, I got £30! Thank you to everyone who was there!

Everything's adding up

After the ceilidh, my fundraising's just been going along nice and slowly, but I'm going to have to have another big fundraiser soon!

Just after the ceilidh, I got another cheque for £100 from another charitable trust so thank you very much!

I also got quite a few donations from people who sadly couldn't make the ceilidh so thank you to Maggie, Susan and Ian, Elizabeth and Pat!

The smartie tubes are still coming in and if anyone still has one could I possibly get it back as soon as possible please! So thank you to the Lindsay house and friends for handing in three smartie tubes, Linda, Kerry, Mrs Roy, Jenna and Ashleigh.  And a big thank you to Shannon because she lost her smartie tube but she gave £10.  Overall, the smartie tubes have raised £260.28 which is absolutely amazing so thank you to everyone who has returned one.

I'm currently sitting at just over £3,900. And that is absolutely amazing and I did not expect to have this much so far.  I still cannot thank everyone enough for helping me out with everything.

But I'm still looking for help so if anyone has anything that could be used as a raffle prize I would be more than happy.  Any skills that could be bid on at an auction or any other kind of help with anything would be fantastic! Thank you.

CEILIDH!

First of all I would just like to say a massive thank you to everyone who came to the ceilidh! I really hope you all enjoyed yourselves because I thought it was a really good night and I loved it all. 

I would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who made food for the night, Vanessa, Jude and Karen and especially my mum and grandma.  Also thank you to my mum, Grandma and my Auntie Diane for helping out so much in the kitchen. 

Thank you to my wee sister Morna for helping sell raffle tickets with her friend, Isla, and also count the money for the 50/50. She was a gem, and sorry Morna if that meant you didn't get many dances!  Also thank you to my friends Catherine and Lois who also helped with this and whatever ever else they could, they were all fantastic.

Thank you to the people at the Devonvale Hall for allowing me to use the hall last night.  It is a beautiful hall and makes for a really a good ceilidh. And also a massive thank you to the bar staff as well who were amazing! However, you can’t have a good ceilidh without a good ceilidh band so I would also like to say a huge thank you to the North Shore Ceilidh Band, they were absolutely amazing.

I completely sold out of tickets as well, which was incredible! Although I hated having to turn people away, I preferred that to having to beg people to come!  It was a great turnout on Friday which made for a really good atmosphere with a good mix of people who all seemed to enjoy themselves.  It was absolutely amazing to hear that people loved it and I'm just so glad you all had a good time!

The raffle was a really big success with lots of prizes.  Thank you to my mum, Lois, Catherine and Emma for helping with that.  I would also like to apologise for shouting through the microphone for my dad. He just wasn’t listening!  Thank you to everyone who donated a prize and an especially big thank you to Falkirk golf club and Braehead golf club and also to Thanks-a-Bunch in Tullibody for the prizes, that was amazing!  And I hope everyone really liked the prizes they won.  I would really like to say thank you to Calder and Jack from my school as although they won three prizes between them, two chocolate board games and Pointless, they gave them away to three of the wee kids at the ceilidh and I know they really appreciated them so thank you guys!  Overall, the raffle raised £360!

 We also did a 50/50 with the tables where people had the chance to win half of all the money put in.  After some confusion over how to play it, most tables put something in their envelope and handed it in.  Morna added up all the money and the winner was going to get £144.55.  Even though he was the last to put in his envelope, Tony won! But I have to say a massive, massive thank you to him because he donated the money back again! Which was absolutely unbelievable! Thank you so much to Tony.  I did ask him to dance afterwards but it turned out it was a progressive one so we didn’t really get much dancing done…  So that meant that the 50/50 raised £289.10!

During the buffet we had the coin toss where adults had to slide pound coins towards a bottle of whisky and kids could slide 20ps towards a box of sweets.  Even though Katie tried really hard, she just couldn’t beat Finlay who won the box of sweets! None of us can remember who won the whisky, but whoever it was I really hope you enjoy it! Both coin tosses raised £55.60! So thank you very much to everyone who played.

The effort some people went to to get to the ceilidh was unbelievable, it really felt amazing to have people there who were so nice that they put aside what was easiest for themselves.  Kirsty from my dad's work had to take a conference call at half eight but she still turned up at around quarter past ten! She also brought me a present of a diary for next year so that was even more lovely.  Mary, also from my dad’s work, arrived at the ceilidh not knowing anybody at all there but she left knowing a table full!  The Gibsons came and enjoyed the ceilidh even though the basement of their house was flooded and they could have been at home but instead they came to support me at the ceilidh. And Jane only arrived in from Cairo about 4 hours earlier! It was little things like that that made the whole night even better, it really meant a lot to me.

 Overall, the night raised an amazing £1911.60 (nett!!)  I could not be happier with how much was raised.  Thank you to everyone for the support and the effort some people went to to get to the ceilidh as well.  It really means a lot and I cannot say thank you enough.  It was lovely to hear how everyone enjoyed themselves and it just makes fundraising that wee bit easier when people are happy to help and enjoy it as well!

I would also like to say thank you to Cameron for taking loads of great pictures!

 Now that I’m half way there, it just makes me more determined to go. Just some more fundraising and that’ll be me there and ready to go!

Before the ceilidh

Just before I thank everyone for the ceilidh I just want to say thank you for the donations I received before it.

I got two smartie tubes back from Andrew and the Knox family.

Also, from where I lived when I was wee, my next door neighbours wrote a letter and donated £30! Thank you to Jimmy and Netta.

Also thank you to Ella and Ewan who donated on my Virgin Money Giving page as well.

More thank yous for donations

Even with the ceilidh coming up which most people are coming to, people are still being so generous with donations.

I've had so many smartie tubes back, so thank you to the Knox household, Kirsten, the Lindsay household, my Granny, Lauren, and Erin.

Also thank you so much to everyone who has donated because they cannot make it to the ceilidh, Jeremy, John and Mrs Bryce.

And a big thank you to everyone who has donated on my virgin money giving page; Lois, Stuart, Elizabeth and Ian, Chris and Ken, Chloe and Alan.

A really big thank you to Gordon who has donated £50! Thank you so much.

I also got back another letter from a charitable trust for £100. Thank you very much it was very appreciated.

Thank you to everyone and I hope everyone who can make it is looking forward to the ceilidh!

Thank You!

I have quite a few thank yous that I have been storing up so..

Before Christmas I was helping sell fruit cocktails with the English department at school and they let me split the profits and that raised £25. So thank you to the English Department at school, Mrs McMahon and to Robyn for helping me to sell them.

Also a big thank you to everyone who has handed back smartie tubes; everyone at my Grandma's, Theo, Jenna, Laura, the Mcaleenan's and everyone else!

Thank you to Jude who donated £5 because she didn't have change for the ceilidh.

And other big thank you to David  from my dad's work who donated £20 because he wasn't able to make it to the ceilidh. So thank you!

I'm just getting some more of my replies to the letters I sent out to the Charitable Trusts and although I have had some nos back which I was expecting, I have just got back my first cheque! So a massive thank you to that Charitable Trust who have donated £200, which was absolutely incredible.

After adding everything together, that's me passed the £1000 mark!  Thank you to everyone who has helped me so far!

And just to remind everyone that ceilidh is on the 7th of February and it would be amazing if some more people could make it along!

Donations?

As they couldn't come to my ceilidh, some of my family, Jim and Doreen donated £20! So thank you very much, that was really lovely.

Any donations are more than welcome. Especially as the ceilidh is coming up any donations in kind for the raffle would be very much appreciated. 

My ceilidh is now a month away and there are still plenty of tickets! If you'd like to come please feel free to phone the house, email me, my mum or my dad or come and speak to any of us whenever you see us. Thank you!