Wendy's Cancer Fundraising Blog

Book sale at Hammersmith Campus

2010-05-28T09:32:00.007+01:00

Thanks to everyone who bought from us (Jenny Parkin and Wendy Peskett) yesterday in the Hammersmith Foyer. We organised a pot of gold draw which was won by Louis Wood, who won £40.50. Louis generously donated £20 back to us towards the fundraising and needed a lot of convincing not to give us it all. We raised another £222.00 in total with the sale, pot of gold draw and donations made from staff. Thank you Paula for allowing us to hold the sale and drawing the winning ticket.

Jenny Parkin leaves to college today and I just wanted to say that it has been a pleasure working with her and our partnership in fund raising has been tremendous for all the charities we personally support. I am hoping that Jenny will be able to come back as a visitor to continue with these sales next year as they are so popular with both staff and students. Jenny I wish you all the very best in the future.

Wendy

Two day Book sale - Hammersmith Site

2009-11-22T13:10:00.020Z

Another fantastic fundraiser! On Thursday 19th and Friday 20th Jenny Parkin and myself, and three of our very kindhearted friends Chris Holland, Liz Price and Diane Spence ran another book sale in the Hammersmith Site Foyer. Many staff and students visited the stall and loved browsing through the vast array of books we had been donated. We had the most ever this time about 1000 books in total.

There was little sign of a recession as you all spent so enthusiastically and helped us to raise a whopping £535.60. All money will be divided in the following way: £267.80 for the Ealing Hospital Breast Cancer Clinic and the other £267.80 to be split between Macmillan Nurses and the Cancer Laryngectomee Trust.

What I love about these days is not only the vast amounts of money we raise, but the noteworthy discussions that go on about the books on sale; some to a very academic level and some not. Everyone just seems to love books which is wonderful. The one conversation that comes to mind this time is a deputy principal conversing with a teacher saying "oh yes get that one... Angelina Ballerina is a great book"

The Pot of Gold was won this time by Rachel Kirsch who was shocked when I told her she had won. In fact I don't think she believed me at first. Thank you to Satwant who drew the winning ticket. The prize was £63.00.

We would all like to thank you so much for your support in both donating and buying the books. We have already had 5 or 6 of you offer us more books (and some other lovely products - more to come on this later) for the next sale which will be in February or March.

Special thanks to Franco and the site care staff (especially Freddie) who helped to shift the many boxes and to Paula Whittle for her continued support in allowing us to hold the sales.

The total raised at book sales alone since we started in 2008 is £1739.07

If you have any books, DVDs or CDs that you would like to donate please contact one of us and we will happily take them off your hands.

Wendy Peskett and Jenny Parkin

Presenting a Cheque for £2718

2009-05-05T18:31:00.011+01:00

I have just left a meeting of the Dragon Club at St George's Hospital where I presented Phillipa Moll a cheque for £2718 for the Cancer Laryngectomee Trust. It was a real eye-opener; the meeting was lively, fun and informative and was attended by hospital staff, laryngectomees and their family. It offered loads of practical advice to the laryngectomees and also gave them a chance to share ideas and problems with the group. The Dragon Club is also a registered charity looking for funds and I have offered to be involved and give my support in any fund-raising they do in the future.

Book Sale 22nd April

2009-04-23T12:14:00.012+01:00

We raised a further £200 to split between the Cancer Laryngectomee Trust and the Charing Cross Breast Cancer Clinic with the book sale yesterday. Many thanks to all staff and students who donated and purchased items from us.

Liz Price kindly rounded the figure up to the nice sum of £200 and helped with the sales the whole day. We couldn't do these sales without her.

Glynnis Jenkins, Jackie Byrne and Diane Spence used their creativity to make some beautiful handmade cards for us to sell and we raised over £18 with these, they were really popular with staff.

The Pot of Gold was won by Richard Endacott who won with £34. Not as much as usual but we hope he enjoyed spending it.

Paula Whittle and Liz Price drawing the Pot of Gold

Thanks also to Lynne Pearson and Paula Whittle who allowed us to hold the sale at the Barons Court Site and also to Ola, Darren and Hafid from Site Care from transporting the books from Ealing.

I think I have covered all the thanks now, it's a bit like writing a speech for the Oscars!

Wendy Peskett and Jenny Parkin

Future events and many thanks for donations

2009-04-08T15:23:00.007+01:00

Next book sale and raffle - April 22nd at EHWLC
Quiz night and Auction October - April date cancelled - New Date to be announced.

Many thanks to Hasbro who have donated a huge box of Hasbro toys for me to auction and also to Clarion events who donated 10 tickets for the Spirit of Summer Fair Olympia May 14- 17.

These great items will help raise loads of cash later...... Will keep you posted.

I also sold a Debra Stephenson autograph/top this week for £15.00 on Ebay so that also goes into the funds raised.

Mothers Day Raffle

2009-03-27T07:52:00.007Z

The raffle raised £153.00. Many thanks to the organisers of the Vitality Show for donating the tickets and for Boots the chemist and my friends who donated the other prizes.

Special thanks to Jamie Gillen, Charlotte Fogg and Diane Spence who helped to sell tickets outside the college.

Fundraiser Ideas by EFI

Total raised £2603 which will be presented on 5th May at St George's Hospital.

Presenting the money

2009-03-25T09:08:00.002Z

I will be presenting the money raised so far on Tuesday 5th May from 2.30-4.30 in the Hyde Park Room at St. George's Hospital. Will add photos once I have attended.

Mother's Day Raffle

2009-03-10T19:28:00.006Z

I am organising a quick raffle in aid of the Cancer Laryngectomee Trust to be drawn on 22nd March.

Tickets are £1.00 per strip
Prizes

Pairs of Vitality show tickets (valid any day March 26th - April 1st) (face value £28)

Large box of Thorntons chocolates

Champagne

Simple gift set
L'oreal gift set
Rimmel colour pallette
and many more small prizes

If you would like to purchase tickets email wendy.peskett@wlc.ac.uk

Let's try to get another £50 to bring the total to £2500

2009-01-30T13:09:00.005Z

I'm desperately writing to a couple of the great companies who helped me last year with donations of products. If I get something nice I'll be raffling it soon to make the total up. Fingers Crossed!

Barclay's donation

2009-01-04T14:26:00.006Z

Thanks to Paula Callanan who presented me with the cheque from Barclay's Bank for £250.

Another £49.26 from donations brings the total raised for the Cancer Laryngectomee Trust to £2450.

Maybe I can squeeze in another £50 with a raffle or somethng to get to £2500

Book sale Thursday 4th December 2008

2008-12-04T19:05:00.012Z

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

2008-11-24T12:39:00.004Z

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

2008-10-08T10:20:00.005+01:00

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

2008-09-11T09:34:00.014+01:00

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

2008-08-27T23:07:00.015+01:00

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

2008-06-29T09:44:00.028+01:00

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

2008-06-19T20:49:00.007+01:00

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

2008-03-30T13:54:00.008+01:00

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!!!!

2008-03-13T17:22:00.028Z

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?

2008-03-06T09:17:00.002Z

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.