Upperby Gala!

I never want to see another cake again!! Haha. Today went so well! The weather was amazing and place was heaving, I reckon there was a better turn out than the Spring Show. We had a really good stall because it was in a prime spot, literally everyone passed by and the canopy we had was red which fitted with the red, yellow and black colour scheme we had going on.

I met some really nice people who came over to ask some questions and find out even more. There was a lot of little extra donnations and quite a few more sponsors for my run at Talkin Tarn with Tess. My mum and my younger sister stayed with me to help with the stall and my friend Chris came by to help to which was nice because it's been a good year since I saw him.
Overall we raised £139.27 so i'm really happy as that brings my total fundraising this week to over £200.
- Rosie

Preparing for Upperby Gala

The Team has a couple of fundraisers this week, tomorrow (Monday 31st June) we're kick starting the week with a stall at Upperby Gala.
At the stall we'll be selling a selection of cakes, muffins and tray bakes as well as our summer quiz competition and various 'kids fun fact sheets'.
The Gala is held at Hammonds Pond and is held between 1-4pm. Our team stall is situated by the playgrouds and cafe. (There will be maps on site)
My aim of the day is to continue raising awareness of our project and to add as much money as possible to my target.
Get there early for the best cakes, you know you want them :P
- Rosie

Cake Sale

Don’t pull me up on the accuracy but I’d say that by tomorrow (Thursday) we will have been doing the weekly Uganda Cake Sale for thirty-two consecutive school weeks!! If that doesn't have tradition written all over it, I don't know what does.

Tomorrow is the Year 11 Leavers Day, so as requested there will be more chocolate cake and the iced cakes will be back too.

Usual time, The Square, see you there.

- Rosie

Bag Pack

Last Saturday the team headed off to Morrisons on what I can quite safely say was the hottest day of the year... so far, fingers crossed. In our Uganda hoodies, (I know you haven’t seen those yet) photos will be up soon, we made our way to the tills with our buckets and began the six hour bag pack.

The weather meant that everyone was buying food for barbeques and that meant easy conversation with the customers. Throughout the day I met a variety of different people who were more than happy to share anecdotes, give tips and opinions about travel and culture they had experienced on their own travels to Africa. One man I met told me that his daughter is currently studying international relations at a university in Ghana, but will be back home in England by the end of the week because she has recently contracted malaria. If he could give me any advice it would be to ‘TAKE MY MALARIA TABLETS’. Or I will be taking tablets every day, three times a day for a year. Awesome.

In total we raised an amazing £840.00 I know we all saw some familiar faces throughout the day, so a big thanks to them and to everyone else who donated money, thank you also to; Mr McCardle, Mrs Mills, Mr Blakemore and Mrs Bushby, who came and gave an extra hand with packing.
- Rosie

Team Building

We decided to have a get together on friday night and have some fun with some team building exercises.

Julianna, Kat, Irene, Kay, Rosie, Alex