Book sale Thursday 4th December 2008

We held our last book sale of the year on Thurs 4th Dec, in aid of the Cancer Laryngectomee Trust and the Charing Cross Breast Clinic, in the Hammersmith site Foyer. Thank you to all the staff and students who supported us in our fundraising efforts.

The amount raised was £215 from books and £61 from the Pot of Gold. Special thanks to Teresa Harkin who single-handedly sold £65 of Pot of Gold tickets for us at Acton. What a great help. Thank you too, to Liz Price and Chris Holland who gave up their time, once again, to run the stall and did such a great job raising the rest of the money for us.

Ivel English was the lucky winner of the Pot of Gold and this generous lady gave £11 of her winnings back to the charities bringing the total for the day to £287.

Jenny Parkin and I would once again like to thank Lynne Pearson who allowed the sale to take place and to Bora and Ola who transported the books for us.

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This brings the total raised for the Cancer Laryngectomee Trust to £2390.74

Barclay's Bank

Barlay's bank have promised £250. I will be making a presentation to the Cancer Laryngetomee Trust as soon as I receive this money. Thanks Barclays.

DVD's for sale

I've been donated some DVD's to sell for the Trust. Total raised with DVD's £39.00.

Total so far £2247.24

Book sale at Barons Court Thursday 25th Sept 12.00 - 4.00

The book sale on Thursday 25th Sept 12.00 - 4.00 in the students' common room raised £44.00. Thanks to everyone who came along.

Total raised £2208.24

Fun Bowling at AMF Purley

Many, many thanks to AMF Purley Bowling Club for allowing us to hold a fun bowling evening there tonight. The bowling centre gave us the use of 10 lanes for FREE so that each bowler could make a donation to the charity. With AMF's most generous support we raised £307.50 for the Trust. Thanks also to Diane Spence for organising the event and for Danielle who worked really hard, all evening, collecting money and selling the Pot of Gold tickets, you were brilliant. The £27.50 Pot of Gold was won by James Collingwood. Thanks everyone for bringing friends along, I hope you all had as much fun as I did.

Here's how much I have raised since March. I will be arranging to present a cheque to the Trust as soon as I receive the £750 from Barclay's Bank.


Total raised £2164.24

Quiz night held in memory of Fred and Mary Robinson

You know what it's like even when you have a party, you worry that no one will to turn up, well at least I do (maybe that's just because I'm a Billy-no-mates). I needn't have worried though as 11 teams took part in the quiz. Most of it went smoothly, had a dispute or two over the answers which were easily sorted. But it seems that everyone had a fun evening. Special thanks to Liam Peskett, Jamie Gillen and Charlotte Fogg who worked continuously all night. Teenagers often get bad press but here were three lovely, hard-working ones who each gave up their Saturday night to raise money for charity. I couldn't have done it without you.

Tony Harrison and Alan Carter were in the winning team - Well done to them and their 6 other team members. They won after a difficult tie-break question. Hope you enjoy your prizes. The team that came second did brilliantly too - there were only 3 people in their team! Well done - Remind me to be in your team next time we go to a quiz.

The Pot of Gold (£127) was won by Paul Law from South Thames College. Paul kindly donated £27 back to the CLT. Thanks Paul.

The main raffle prizes were won by: Mrs Dubis (Mobile phone), J. Sidwell (Wine selection), Mark Sellis (£20 Sainsbury's voucher), Marie Gillen (Bowling vouchers) and Fred Robinson (W.H. Smiths voucher - which was put back into the auction and raised a further £10). Sorry I didn't take down all the winners names for smaller prizes.

Thanks to everyone who donated items and their time to help me. In total the whole event cost only £12 to put on. Everything including the hall, food, bar, raffle, auction and tombola prizes was donated by individuals and companies.

I did well too in the auction - My husband, Mark, bid on and won the Green and Blacks chocolate hamper (Bang goes the diet - Hello chocolate heaven!) and my friend Paula surprised me by bidding on the floatation session and giving it to me at the end of the night. I must say I'm going to really enjoy that. Maybe I could eat the chocolate whilst in the floatation tank hmmmm......

The total raised was £1316, every penny of this will be donated to the Trust as there are no overheads to pay out. Barclay's Bank sponsored the event and matched the first £250, pound for pound. What a great donation. Thank you Paula Callanan for being their representative and thank you Barclay's.


Thanks for giving so generously, I hope you all had fun too. If you did please click on comment at the bottom of this article and write a message.

Total raised £1856.74

Thanks to the generous companies and individuals who who supplied raffle and auction items

Sainsbury's - £20 gift voucher
Bar less - free buffet for all attending
AMF bowling Croydon
Diggerland - one adult voucher
Sealife - family pass
Colin Robinson mobile phone
Vue cinema - 8 tickets
Addington Palace - Floatation therapy
Green and Blacks - Chocolate hamper
Tony Harrison - 6 bottles of wine
Tesco - £10 gift Voucher
Somerfield - 4 bottles wine
Coronation Street - Cast costume and autograph
Fairfield Halls - family pantomime tickets
Nestle - chocolate samples box

The night was dedicated to dad and to mum, who would have so loved the raffle and tombola.

Book sale at EHWLC - Hammersmith Site

I have just spent another day off working alongside Jenny Parkin, Jean Fitzpatrick and Liz Price to raise money for The Charing Cross Breast Cancer Unit and The Cancer Laryngectomee Trust. Even though it was a quiet day around the college with many students offsite, we still raised another fanastic amount, £196 which we will split between the two charities. Thanks to all staff and students who showed such an interest and bought so many books from us.

Special thanks once again to the site care staff who transported books between sites for us and got the tables and books to the common room in the morning. Thanks also to Martin Giese who allowed us to use the Student Common room for the sale.

Here's how much has been raised for the Cancer Laryngectomee Trust to date

If any other staff would like to organise sales for a charity of their choice next year please contact Wendy or Martin to book a date.

Vitality show tickets

Another successful fundraiser. I hope all of you that were lucky enough to get tickets had a great day out at the Vitality Show. I know I did. These tickets, kindly donated by Maria at the show organisers DMG World Media, raised a total of £203.00 for the Cancer Laryngectomee Trust. Full steam ahead now organising the Quiz night to be held on 28th June,at the Cornerstone Roehampton.

See the barometer below to see all the money raised so far.

Booksale - What a result!!!!

I am really on a high. I have just spent my day off working alongside Jenny Parkin and her two friends: Liz Price and Chris Holland selling books, for charity, in the foyer of the Hammersmith site. We had a blast and raised a whopping £476.47 which will be split between The Cancer Laryngectomee Trust and The Charing Cross Breast Cancer Unit. We organised a pot of gold raffle which raised £103 and the books that were donated raised £373.47. Jenny's half of the funds means she now has another £1000 give to Charing Cross to support their research.



Maxine Warwick won £103 in the Pot of Gold raffle. She was so pleased as she says she had never won anything before. Well done Maxine, spend it on something nice for yourself. Thanks Lynne for drawing the winning ticket.



What was the best part of the day? Well I was amazed by the interest shown by both students and staff. We had so many of you buy books from us today and the students were asking if we were going to be a regular feature in the foyer.



We hadn't planned on doing more than this one sale, but after today Lynne Pearson has asked us back to do another ... date to be announced.... and many staff offered donations of more books. Thank you so much to all those of you who donated or bought books from us today and to Ola, the site care team, Bora and Darren who moved books between sites (no easy task).... I had a great time today.... I have always known I love selling and missed my true vocation..... hence my choice of profile photo on this page.

On a more educational note I liked this quote, about the sale, from Mike James "It takes about 5 hours to read a book and you sold a minimum of 300 books then you have really sold back to our learners at least 1500 hours of self development, specifically improving literacy skills."

The chart below shows the funds raised so far for the Cancer Laryngectomee Trust. I have Vitality Show ticket money to add once it is all in....

If you have any books to donate, or have particular types of books you would like us to try to get for the next sale please leave a comment on this article. The more you communicate with us the better we can make the next one.

What am I up to?

I am doing some fundraising for the Cancer Laryngectomee Trust so this blog is just to keep you all informed as to what I am up to at the moment.

For the past few months I have been writing to companies asking for prize donations. I've had lots of small prizes donated so far but nothing that would be suitable for a major first prize in a draw. Early days though. I have also written to many celebrities asking them for autographs which I will auction at the quiz night or on Ebay at a later date. I will do whichever I think will raise the most.

I also had some Vitality Show tickets donated by the Daily Mail Group which have been selling really well. Will post how much this raised when they are all gone. Contact me if you want a ticket.

If anyone has any contacts in companies that could donate something please help me out. Alternatively please contact me if you have any small items you would like to donate (unwanted gifts perhaps). What else will you do with them?

I have a quiz night booked at The Cornerstone Roehampton on 28th June 2008 7.00 (quiz to start promptly at 7.30). Tickets for this will be £5.00 per person. I would love it if the college staff could make up a couple of teams and come and support the Trust. More on this to follow.