Cant have the good without the bad!

Well we have had a lot of successes so far so I guess we were due some not so successful ventures!

The riverbank market thing never really worked out. We found out you have to have a hygene licence to sell food at the market and the cost of the stall has gone up to $20. We felt like it would'nt really be worth it if we were just selling Joyah's bracelets. Probably just as well anyways as the two Saturdays we were going to do were both cold and rainy!

We had to cancel the movie night due to a lack of sales. This was disappointing as potentially we could have made over $1000 profit and in the end we were looking at making a loss so we made the decision to cancel.

We had a sausage sizzle at the races in the weekend. One of Joyah's leaders was able to get us a spot at the races. However we were placed in a really bad position and made very little sales.

However we still have one more sausage sizzle at The Warehouse in Petone this Sunday. We are hoping to sell more than normal with the xmas crowds plus since The Warehouse will be open till 10 we are allowed to stay till 9.30. It will be along day but should be worth it ;)

As always we would appreciate some volunteers to help us out. Especially since Joyah and I need to get to the uniform shop at Sacred Heart on Sunday as well ( the only time that it is open that is not during the day on a week day! ). Please let us know if you can help.

Thanks once again for everybody's help and support :)

Hi all

We had a busy and successful Labour weekend and made a profit of approx $1200 over both days. We were knackered by the end of it LOL! Many thanks to Delma, Taryn, Kirstin, Rose, Debbie and Gemma our wonderful willing helpers :) We wouldn't be able to do this without your support, it is much appreciated.

Its harder now to keep a track of the amount we have raised as we have spent some of it LOL Now Joyah has a nice warm and compact sleeping bag and a shiny new travel pack. However we have raised approx $6000 so far :) As we have not yet got a final amount that we need we will keep going till we feel we have enough but the end is definitely in sight.

Our next focus is our New Moon movie night. In the email with the link to this page is an attachment of a flyer Joyah designed about the movie night.

We need your help in 2 ways, if you are interested we would love it if you bought some tickets also we need goodies for spot prizes etc. Do you have any contacts that we could use to acquire goods. In particular we are after lollies, chocolate, Twilight merchandise, make up , books ,vouchers and anything else that would be attractive to our main target audience teenage girls and their mothers LOL!

Joyah and I plan to go down to the riverbank market on 21 & 28 Nov to sell her button bracelets and some baking, let me know if you are able to help with the baking. If you are down at the markets make sure you come by and say hello :)

Joyah and Nimue are of to a Girl Guide camp this weekend so lets hope for good weather!

A plea for help

Before our plea will keep you update with what we have been upto. We had another successful sausage sizzle on 20 Sept, thanks to Mum who helped on the day ;) We raised $360 :)

Joyah also had a big TradeMe blitz in the holidays and listed a whole pile of stuff. We were very happy with how the auctions went and will be depositing close to $300 to her account from the TradeMe auctions. Thanks to those people who donated goods :)

We are now close to $5500 raised ;)

We have booked a fundraising session of New Moon at Skycity Queensgate on the 9th of December. We will selling tickets for $20 at the beginning of Nov with lots of lucky seat and spot prizes. We would really appreciate some help in getting some goods for prizes. First of all we would like lots of lollies to give away as prizes so anyone who would like to donate a bag of lollies please get them to me or Joyah. Also we would love someone to help Joyah approach shops and business's to donate Twilight merchandise for us to give away. Joyah has also written a letter to Robert Pattisons agent asking for his autograph, you never know our luck :) Basically the more prizes that we have to give away the more attractive the tickets will be to buy for our target audience , teenage girls!

Now for our big plea for help, We have a very busy labour weekend with sausage sizzles! We have a sausage sizzle booked on Sunday 25th at Petone Warehouse. Then we have a sausage sizzle booked on the Mon 26th at Mitre 10 Mega! I have been told we could sell up to 1000 sausages on a sunny public holiday at Mitre 10 Mega!! Thats more than double what we normally sell!

Obviously if this is going to be the case we will need help! More so than ever! Normally we can mange by ourselves if there are no volunteers for help and we will be there all day on the Monday but we will also need extra volunteers. So if you are not going away and can spare a few hours on the Sun or Mon please let us know. We will also need help on the Sat preparing the bread and onions.

In November we have no sausage sizzles booked. Joyah and I will be spending a couple of Saturday mornings at the market. We will be selling baking and Joyah's bracelets plus whatever else we can organise. Closer to the time we will be asking if anyone can provide baking we have ingredients that we can give to people to use :)

In Dec as I mentioned we have the New Moon screening and what we would hope to be our last sausage sizzle! Apart from Joyah's bike ride which will probably happen in March ( we still need someone to help her train ) that should be our fundraising finished!

As always we appreciate all support and help from our family and friends.

Another sausage sizzle and some good news

Hello our wonderful family,friends and supporters

We have a sausage sizzle coming up this Sunday. If anyone can volunteer a couple hours of their time it would be much appreciated :)

Also some very good news, we have just heard that Joyah will receive a $500 cheque from Lions towards her fundraising. That is fantastic news for us :):):):)

We will give you more details later but we have an exciting fundraising event coming up in December. This will be of particular interest to all the Twilight fans out there =)

Good ole sausage sizzles!

I did wonder how the nicer weather would affect our sales and it looks like for Sunday any it made a difference. We made $450 profit on Sunday :) Many thanks to Angie and her kids and Joyah's Guide leaders Debbie and Gemma for their time and support.
We are now very close to $4000 raised, well on our way to our target. We have another sausage sizzle in about a months time. With the warmer weather we also look into having a couple of stalls at the riverbank market selling the bracelets Joyah has been making and also baking.
Also with the finer weather Joyah will have to start her training for her bike ride. As yet we still dont have anyone to help her with this, if you know of anyone who can please let us know.

Lots of news

First of all some good news. Last Friday Joyah's guide unit organised a neon 80's disco for her. It was a wonderful night and they raised $251 for Joyah :) The night was well supported by leaders and girls. The Girl Guides from Joyahs unit put in a lot of time and effort and did a great job. Here's some photos of the night. You can see Joyah in a pastel green top and Nimue is wearing a yellow t-shirt with pink hearts on it.

We are having a small half way there party on Sat night as we as we now have raised $3500!!!!! Big thanks to EVERYONE that has helped and supported us we are thrilled with the results so far!

Some sad news though. The night before the disco Joyah's guide unit's hall was badly burned in an arson attack. It will have to be demolished and have been told by the council that the hall will not be allowed to be replaced on the land where it was . So at the moment her unit has nowhere to meet! All their resources and work was lost. That included all the decorations for the disco that girls had spent the previous 2 weeks making :(

We have another sausage sizzle on Sun 23rd August. This will be a tricky one to organise as both girls will be in 2 concerts that afternoon! So any volunteers will be much appreciated :)

Another successful sausage sizzle

Hi all

Well we made a $350 profit on Sunday , many thanks to the Anderson family for their help ) We now have just over $3000, woohoo!!!!!

Joyah's Nan rashly promised earlier on a half way there party, we're gonna have to hold her to it very soon as I'm sure it wont be long before we have raised $3500 :) Only another $3500 to go, phew!

Thanks to all the people who have donated goods for TradeMe we have a few auctions going at the moment. Unfortunately they haven't been as successful as our previous ones but every bit helps.