Good evening all, did we all have a good weekend? I did because I went to see the 2nd best man in my life BON JOVI! So I had a late night Saturday got into bed at 2.30am and had to be in work for 9am! I did make it though. It was our giant craft fair at the Rarebreeds all weekend Emma also came in & volunteered to work, Emma & myself were on car park duty in the morning after that was completed we were promoting our trek and the charity. We had a really busy day & there was lots if visitors, we both did Pig Race with help from Adam, Anna & Nikki and we managed to Raise a whopping £103 so thank you to you if you were one of those who kindly donated.
I would also like to say a big thank you to Shelia Morgan a volunteer for the Rarebreeds Centre, Shelia also had a stall at the craft fair and kindly donated some of her money she had made to our cause.
Thank you to you all and thank you to all the people I met who wished us good luck with the trek.
Sarah and Emma say Bring On The Wall !!!! On the 12th may 2012 Sarah and Emma will take on a charity challenge Trekking The Great Wall of China. Sarah and Emma would like to thank you for visiting their blog and hope you pop back often.
Tuesday 28 June 2011
Wednesday 22 June 2011
Posted by Sarah 22-6-2011
Hello again,
Just to let you all know we have a giant craft fair taking place at The Rarebreeds Centre at the weekend (both days) with over 80 stalls booked and with a special entry price of just £5 each, so why not come along and treat yourself. Emma and I plan to be there on Sunday, again we will be promoting the charity and hopefully collecting lots of money for our much needed charity.
So we look forward to seeing you all and bring the sunshine!
Also below is Bagpuss, do fancy buying a ticket to win him?
If so do get in touch with Emma or I.
Just to let you all know we have a giant craft fair taking place at The Rarebreeds Centre at the weekend (both days) with over 80 stalls booked and with a special entry price of just £5 each, so why not come along and treat yourself. Emma and I plan to be there on Sunday, again we will be promoting the charity and hopefully collecting lots of money for our much needed charity.
So we look forward to seeing you all and bring the sunshine!
Also below is Bagpuss, do fancy buying a ticket to win him?
If so do get in touch with Emma or I.
Tuesday 21 June 2011
Posted by Sarah 21-6-2011
Good evening all
Sorry I haven't been in touch lately but I have been on my hols, recharged my China Trek batteries now I'm back on board! Well as you have read my 1st weekend back was a busy one, Emma and I attended the volunteers lunch held at the centre. We took along our mascot Bagpuss! he is lovely, he was kindly knitted and donated to us by Hazel Payne (shop volunteer.) Emma and I are selling tickets at £1 each so if you fancy having a go at winning him do get in touch with us. I will post a photo shortly of him.
We had a very successful day and met all the amazing volunteers that give up there time and help in all different areas of The Rarebreeds Centre and Canterbury Oast Trust. So it leaves me to say a huge Thank you to all that kindly donated or brought tickets on the day with the money we raised on the day our total now is £3314. Another big thank you goes to one of the trustees of The Canterbury Oast Trust who kindly gave Emma and I a cheque for £100, as you can see the support we are both receiving is truly amazing and for this we are very grateful.
We have also been donated a first aid kit each by Wallace and Cameron, this company supply our centre with first aid items, so for this we both say thank you and hope we won't have to make use of them! www.wallacecameron.com
Sorry I haven't been in touch lately but I have been on my hols, recharged my China Trek batteries now I'm back on board! Well as you have read my 1st weekend back was a busy one, Emma and I attended the volunteers lunch held at the centre. We took along our mascot Bagpuss! he is lovely, he was kindly knitted and donated to us by Hazel Payne (shop volunteer.) Emma and I are selling tickets at £1 each so if you fancy having a go at winning him do get in touch with us. I will post a photo shortly of him.
We had a very successful day and met all the amazing volunteers that give up there time and help in all different areas of The Rarebreeds Centre and Canterbury Oast Trust. So it leaves me to say a huge Thank you to all that kindly donated or brought tickets on the day with the money we raised on the day our total now is £3314. Another big thank you goes to one of the trustees of The Canterbury Oast Trust who kindly gave Emma and I a cheque for £100, as you can see the support we are both receiving is truly amazing and for this we are very grateful.
We have also been donated a first aid kit each by Wallace and Cameron, this company supply our centre with first aid items, so for this we both say thank you and hope we won't have to make use of them! www.wallacecameron.com
Sunday 19 June 2011
by Emma
Hello everyone,
Well what a weekend firstly Sarah and I made our way to Rye yesterday for our bucket collection, we received a permit last year so it was a much anticipated day, what a hugely disappointing day though as the Great British weather meant we had monsoon rain on arrival to Rye, We made a trip round all the car parks and up through the high street in the car and very soon realised it really would be silly to stand in the pouring rain (as much as we wanted to), as just no one was out and about in Rye. So over a cuppa and cookie in Jempsons we made the decision to head home. So onto today Sunday we decided to spend our time today amongst a wonderful group of people. These people are the volunteers of Canterbury oast trust, Sarah and I didn't think we would be able to make it to the event (volunteers lunch) but we are so glad that time allowed us to as we met so many people who's support means so much to Canterbury Oast Trust and to us. Aside from raising £187 which is simply amazing we met people who seemed so interested in what we are doing who asked questions to which we enjoyed answering and of course these people who give all this time to our charity as volunteers also gave money.
£187 is a fantastic amount of money from an event that was Canterbury Oast trust based, it really does show what this charity means to so many people including both Sarah and I.
We must make two special thank you's firstly to a gentleman who very kindly wrote a cheque for £100.00.....wow this kind of generosity makes such a difference to our fundraising efforts and will of course help us reach and exceed our fundraising pledge of £5000 and also a thank you to Hazel Payne a volunteer who has kindly knitted and donated a large 'bag puss' teddy, we are selling raffle tickets at £1 a ticket to win 'bag puss'. The competition will be running till august so plenty of time to see Sarah or me and purchase tickets.
In all a fantastic fundraising day amongst people who are Canterbury oast trust, people who care and people who showed us so much support. Thank you.
Well what a weekend firstly Sarah and I made our way to Rye yesterday for our bucket collection, we received a permit last year so it was a much anticipated day, what a hugely disappointing day though as the Great British weather meant we had monsoon rain on arrival to Rye, We made a trip round all the car parks and up through the high street in the car and very soon realised it really would be silly to stand in the pouring rain (as much as we wanted to), as just no one was out and about in Rye. So over a cuppa and cookie in Jempsons we made the decision to head home. So onto today Sunday we decided to spend our time today amongst a wonderful group of people. These people are the volunteers of Canterbury oast trust, Sarah and I didn't think we would be able to make it to the event (volunteers lunch) but we are so glad that time allowed us to as we met so many people who's support means so much to Canterbury Oast Trust and to us. Aside from raising £187 which is simply amazing we met people who seemed so interested in what we are doing who asked questions to which we enjoyed answering and of course these people who give all this time to our charity as volunteers also gave money.
£187 is a fantastic amount of money from an event that was Canterbury Oast trust based, it really does show what this charity means to so many people including both Sarah and I.
We must make two special thank you's firstly to a gentleman who very kindly wrote a cheque for £100.00.....wow this kind of generosity makes such a difference to our fundraising efforts and will of course help us reach and exceed our fundraising pledge of £5000 and also a thank you to Hazel Payne a volunteer who has kindly knitted and donated a large 'bag puss' teddy, we are selling raffle tickets at £1 a ticket to win 'bag puss'. The competition will be running till august so plenty of time to see Sarah or me and purchase tickets.
In all a fantastic fundraising day amongst people who are Canterbury oast trust, people who care and people who showed us so much support. Thank you.
Thursday 9 June 2011
By Emma 09 June
Hi everyone,
so sorry its been a while since my last post, as you can see we have exceeded £3000 in money raised which is amazing as we still have over 11 months to go before we head to china. sarah is on her holidays at the moment in Turkey with her sister (our personal trainer Anna), i hope there having a good time.
I have just enjoyed a really lovely couple of days of work as its my Birthday today. In all newspaper reports sarah has informed the reporter of my age, telling them all im 28, well finally now that is correct. (im getting old).
I treated myself today to some new trekking boots, we purchased boots a few months ago but neither sarah or i was happy with them so we now both have another pair to wear in, i have a good feeling these will be the ones that take me along The Great Wall of China, they appear much better quality.
I will wait for sarahs return and head somewhere for a old good trek to try them out.
We are both running in the London 10k this july so with 4 weeks to go i will start training for this event on saturday with a good run and then regular running for 4 weeks till the day we participate.
any money raisied will go towards are china trek fundraising as its all for our charity.
well I will enjoy whats left of my birthday with a slice of cake, i mean if you cant indulge on your birthday then when can you.
Just another little note but we have our exciting day in rye on the 18th where we have been given a permit to street collect for the day, we are so lucky to recieve a permit and cant wait to meet the people of east sussex. come and say hello if your local we will be situated in the hight street all day.
take care all
so sorry its been a while since my last post, as you can see we have exceeded £3000 in money raised which is amazing as we still have over 11 months to go before we head to china. sarah is on her holidays at the moment in Turkey with her sister (our personal trainer Anna), i hope there having a good time.
I have just enjoyed a really lovely couple of days of work as its my Birthday today. In all newspaper reports sarah has informed the reporter of my age, telling them all im 28, well finally now that is correct. (im getting old).
I treated myself today to some new trekking boots, we purchased boots a few months ago but neither sarah or i was happy with them so we now both have another pair to wear in, i have a good feeling these will be the ones that take me along The Great Wall of China, they appear much better quality.
I will wait for sarahs return and head somewhere for a old good trek to try them out.
We are both running in the London 10k this july so with 4 weeks to go i will start training for this event on saturday with a good run and then regular running for 4 weeks till the day we participate.
any money raisied will go towards are china trek fundraising as its all for our charity.
well I will enjoy whats left of my birthday with a slice of cake, i mean if you cant indulge on your birthday then when can you.
Just another little note but we have our exciting day in rye on the 18th where we have been given a permit to street collect for the day, we are so lucky to recieve a permit and cant wait to meet the people of east sussex. come and say hello if your local we will be situated in the hight street all day.
take care all
Wednesday 1 June 2011
Posted by Sarah 01-06-2011
Its the 1st June and the lovely weather continues another busy day at the centre, I think the sun brought out the visitors today. Well good news from our Pig Racing Event today Emma joined me so it was a joint effort we managed to collect £50.51, now that's amazing and better still that takes us over our £3000 mark.
So many thanks to all those people who kindly donated today and also wished us luck with the trek, we can't thank you enough.
So many thanks to all those people who kindly donated today and also wished us luck with the trek, we can't thank you enough.
WELL WE BOTH HAVE NOW REACHED THE GRAND TOTAL OF £3000
SO HAPPY AND WE HAVE ANOTHER YEAR TO YET!
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