The big news is that I HAVE RAISED MY TOTAL OF £1,500! This is absolutely brilliant and I am eternally grateful to everyone who has donated and supported the cause. I've now raised my minimum, but this doesn't mean that I need to stop fundraising. As I haven't done my skydive or a carboot sale yet, I should hopefully be able to raise more for Chennai Challenge. I have pushed my target on JustGiving up to £1,600 which I'm sure that I'll be able to reach. Please carry on supporting me!
I'm now going to list a few of the fundraising events that I've been doing to help raise my minimum amount so other people can get ideas if they're fundraising also.
1) Selling old clothes on eBay. This has been a great contributor to raising the money as I have lots of old clothes that I don't need and am more than willing to sell them and then give the money to charity.
2) Selling Chennai Challenge wristbands. These have been highly popular as the person who's buying is getting something back for their money. To do this, myself and a few friends who are also going contacted a wristband company, designed the wristbands and then ordered them. I've been selling them for £1 each and have almost sold 300 of them. :-)
3) Collecting spare 50ps that you have. My grandma has been doing this for me and she raised up to £100!
4) Skydive. Although I haven't actually done this yet, I have received a number of sponsors. As this is something that is completely out of my comfort-zone then people are more than willing to sponsor me because of this.
5) Cake sales. A highly popular one. No one can say no to cakes.
6) Rabbit flannels. Myself and my two grandmothers made rabbits out of small flannels and then put Easter eggs inside of them. These were highly popular around Easter time, but now we're still doing this but with bath bombs instead as obviously the Easter eggs are now out of season.
7) Sweet jar. I bought a small jar and filled it with sweets and asked people to guess how many sweets were in the jar for 50p. This has raised quite a bit and I will be announcing who's won it on Friday! Woooooo!
8) Carboot sale. I haven't done this yet, but obviously this is a good way of getting rid of old belongings whilst also raising money for charity.
And that's about it, I think. I've thoroughly enjoyed fundraising and I cannot wait whatsoever to get to India already. Only 52 more days to go!
If you have the time, please like the Chennai Challenge page on Facebook. https://m.facebook.com/chennaichallenge
You can also still donate to my JustGiving page which you can visit by clicking this link here.
Au revoir.
