Category: Fundraising

Lots of cheers and thank yous in our fundraising news this month…

We are delighted to announce that our Indulgence Evening on Friday 7 November raised £679.52. Thank you so much to everyone who supported us – no matter how small or great your contribution we couldn’t do it without you 🙂

So far we have raised over £350 on our Little House moneybox fundraiser and will be announcing the winners of the decorating and most money raised prizes later this week. We know that a few people still have their boxes – please can you return them to us as soon as possible so that we can add up the final amount and work out if we have raised enough to buy a sunshade tarpaulin to put over our sandpit area.

David Wilson (husband of Linda Wilson in playgroup), gained £105 for us in sponsorship donations by running the Great Eastern Run. This will go towards buying a new carpet for our quiet corner, to help make it a cosy and inviting place to read books and talk. Hope you’ve recovered now David!

Nationwide Building Society customers helped New Ark to receive a £500 donation in the last Community Match scheme.  Thank you to everyone who voted for us with their blue tokens.

We are super proud that Waitrose chose a New Ark playground regular, Lucas, to help open their new store in Peterborough recently. He also helped some of our staff to collect a cheque for £290, which was our share of Waitrose’s green token Community Matters scheme for October. Thank you also to Waitrose staff who are currently helping us to improve some of the facilities on our city farm – hopefully we can post some pictures of the improvements shortly…

We’ve recently heard that New Ark was chosen by Norwich and Peterborough Building Society to receive a donation of £100 as part of their Make a Difference Week. We’ll be attending a cheque presentation with local MP Stewart Jackson in a couple of weeks – keep an eye on our Facebook page for a picture.

Planning future fundraisers

We need people to join our fundraising team. Everyone is welcome to drop into our next fundraising meeting on Tuesday 9th December 4pm-5:30pm. If you’d like to come please call Charlotte on 01733 340605 or email charlottenewark@gmail.com. Your children are welcome to play in our adventure playground, supervised by our playworkers, while you attend this meeting. We’ll be planning a calendar of fundraising events for 2015/16 and so far the ideas pencilled in for the next year include:

• Saturday 7th February 2015, 11-2pm – Mother and child table top sale
• Friday 3rd April 2015, 11-3pm – Good Friday Easter Hunt
• Saturday 20th June 2015, 12-4pm – Midsummer Festival
• Saturday 28th November 2015, 1-3pm – Christmas Bazaar

After that our next fundraising planning meeting will be on Thursday 15th January, 1-3pm

There has been so much exciting fundraising news this week! Below is a handy summary for you – if you only do one thing for New Ark this week please vote for us in the YBS legacy.

YBS £10K Legacy
We need your help to get a £10,000 legacy grant from YBS group!  Please go to www.ybs.co.uk/legacy and vote for “New Ark Play Association”, and let your friends know  as we need as many votes as possible. If we are successful we will rebuild our outdoor play equipment including our climbing frame – fondly called the ‘banana board’ by the children – which is currently out of action.

Vote for us at Waitrose
New Ark is one of the 3 Community Matters charities this month in Waitrose, Queensgate. When you shop there the cashier will give you a green token – we’d love you to put it in our box on your way out of the store. The charity with the most tokens at the end of October gets the biggest share of £1,000.

Little House boxes
Our Little House fundraiser has brought in over £170 so far and boxes are still going out. Please remember to return your box by 31 October. More details at www.newarkplay.co.uk/little-house

Grow your tenner
Donate £10 to New Ark – we get £20! Local Giving is currently matching one-time donations pound-for-pound up to £10, and monthly donations up to £10 per month for 6 months. Donate now at www.localgiving.com/newarkplay

Indulgence Evening
Do you know anyone with a beauty or therapy business? We have a few spaces left for our Indulgence Evening on 7 November which are prioritised for treatment stalls. More details for stallholders are here. More details on the event itself are here – tickets (which include a light buffet) are available now costing £5 in advance or £7 on the night

Nationwide tokens
We’ve just heard that Nationwide in Long Causeway included New Ark in its September ‘blue token’ charity scheme. It was due to be taken down this week, but if anyone is in town this weekend please do pop in and vote for us if you’re able to. Customers are given a blue token to vote for one of 3 charities to receive £500. Fingers crossed we win something from it

Half marathon sponsorship
Last Sunday David Wilson (husband of Linda Wilson in playgroup) ran the Great Eastern Run to raise money so that we can buy a new carpet for our quiet corner, to help make it a cosy and inviting place to read books and talk. Thank David by making a donation here. Please remember to Gift Aid it.

Dates for your diary
Finally, remember we have our Christmas Bazaar on Saturday 29 November 12-4pm, and our next fundraising meeting is on Tuesday 11 November 1-3pm in Charlotte’s office. More details in next week’s newsletter

 

Double your donation to New Ark. You give £10 – we get £20!

Local Giving is currently matching one-time donations pound-for-pound up to £10, and monthly donations up to £10 per month for 6 months. So if you donate £5 to New Ark we get £10, and if you donate £10 we get £20! And if you are a UK taxpayer, remember to claim Gift Aid for us. This means that your donation is topped up by a further 25% by HMRC.

Donate now at www.localgiving.com/newarkplay

P.S. You can help us to raise awareness of the Grow your Tenner campaign by signing up to the Local Giving Thunderclap, which will go out on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr on the 21st October. Remember to include in your message the address of the New Ark donation page, which is www.localgiving.com/newarkplay

** Update ** We are pleased to announce that a grand total of £679.52 was raised at this event on 7 November. Thank you to all the people who supported us. Pictures taken on the night have been uploaded onto our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/newarkplay

 

♥ Advance ticket £5 includes entrance and light buffet available (£7 on the night)
♥ All profits for New Ark – bring your friends for a night out!
♥ Please note that this is a cash only event
♥ Get your tickets from New Ark now – call 01733 340605 or email Charlotte on charlottenewark@gmail.com

Come and pamper yourself at New Ark’s Christmas Indulgence Evening, with all profits going towards our fundraising target of £15,000. We’ll have a licensed bar and seating. All stalls will be charging for their goods/activities – some are donating all their profits to us (we’ll give them a New Ark poster to display so you know). We will also be running a raffle, with prizes donated by our stallholders.

A list of confirmed stallholders is below – keep an eye on this page and our Facebook page for updates:
♥ A & K Sweet Surrender (chocolate and sweet creations)
♥ Angel Card Readings (card readings)
♥ Angels Whispering (card readings/auragraph)
♥ Ashwood Artisan Accessories (handmade gemstone jewellery)
♥ Bagalicious (handbags, purses, wallets & scarves)
♥ Body Shop (Body Shop products)
♥ Bombtastic (bath and shower products)
♥ The Craft (handmade jewellery & accessories)
♥ The Craft Nest (make up and jewellery)
♥ Daisy Loves (jewellery and accessories)
♥ Daniele Caked and Baked (cakes)
♥ Dream Nails by Rose (gelish manicures)
♥ Feel Better Reiki (reiki products/ massage
♥ Flutterby bags (handbags, purses, scarfs and accessories)
♥ Forever Living (aloe vera products)
♥ Frances Green (secure nails, waxing and Indian head massage)
♥ Funky Bows ‘N’ Things (hair accessories)
♥ Glitzy Glam (jewellery)
♥ Lily Lush (gelish manicures)
♥ Lucy’s Lollies (handmade lollies)
♥ Massage for the Masses (chair massage)
♥ Miss Cherry Retro (vintage inspired dresses, cushions and accessories)
♥ Nail Envy/ Herbalife (gelish polish/herbal shakes)
♥ Nessa’s Handmade Jewellery (jewellery)
♥ Paintbox (handcrafted unique felt decorations)
♥ Pampered Chef (cookware and kitchen gadgets)
♥ Partylite (candles, holders)
♥ Scrappysonia (jams, preserves and sweets)
♥ Simply Beauty (brows, eyelashes, spray tans, scents)
♥ Thai Foot Massage (foot massage)
♥ Top Tots Boutique (hair and baby)
♥ Treats and Eats (homemade gifts)

For more information about our charitable objectives see: www.newarkplay.co.uk/about/

If you want to book a stall, see www.newarkplay.co.uk/stallbookingndulgence

Do you run a business that offers beauty, therapy or gifts and treats? We are taking stall bookings for our Christmas Indulgence evening, which is on the evening of Friday 7 November 2014 in the Executive Suite at the POSH ground. This event will be widely publicised on New Ark’s website, posters, social media etc. This is an ideal opportunity to grow your business.

Stalls are £10 plus a raffle prize which should be a product or service from your business (our raffle prize list will be publicised). Or you can choose to donate all your proceeds from the evening to New Ark. To book, please email fundraising.newark@gmail.com and request a booking form (or download it from here). The form needs to be returned with your £10 booking fee by 30 September 2014. Stalls will only be allocated on payment of booking fee.

In case of query please contact: Charlotte Griggs on 01733 340605 or email fundraising.newark@gmail.com if non urgent.

**Update** Do you see one of your Little House decorated boxes here? Then you’ve won a prize! Come and see a staff member next time you are in. And if you haven’t brought your moneybox back yet there is still time we haven’t counted the final total yet…

We are delighted to announce our latest Little House fundraising scheme, which is open to all our supporters to take part in.

You will be asked to pay a nominal fee of 50p and will be given a plastic house moneybox, to take home and fill with spare change and return it to New Ark on/before 31 October 2014. Your 50p will be returned to you on request.

The moneybox comes inside a plain white box which may be decorated and returned to us. We will be offering prizes for the three highest amounts raised by the deadline, and also prizes for decorated boxes returned to us by the deadline

Please consider taking part – with the money raised we will be erecting a sunshade tarpaulin over our sandpit area. Ask Jodie Watson or Abbie Braines for details.

Here’s some of the houses decorated and returned already – they look fab!

 

We have lots of great fundraising events planned for the autumn. Please save the below dates, and read on for ideas on how you can help New Ark with our ongoing fundraising.

Our next fundraising drop in meeting is on Tuesday 23rd September 1-3pm in Charlotte’s office. Just pop along during that time, or if you can’t make it but would still like to help with fundraising please email fundraising.newark@gmail.com.

Open Day, Saturday 4 October 1-4pm
We welcome donations of baked cakes etc to sell on the day. Entry will be by donation to this annual community event.

Christmas Pamper & Indulgence Evening, Friday 7th November 7-11pm
Do you know a business who might donate a make-over, a hotel stay, or something equally attractive for our top raffle prize? If yes please do ask them on our behalf – top prize means lots of publicity opportunities! We are also seeking stallholders who should email fundraising.newark@gmail.com for further information.

Christmas Bazaar, Saturday 29 November noon-4pm
We are now collecting donations of small gifts that will fit inside a jam jar – either loose or inside a clean jar. Ideas include a handful of lego, loom bands, beauty products, wrapped sweets – it really could be anything small that is suitable for either children or adults. If you can volunteer on the day of the Bazaar to run a stall, please send an email with your name, phone number and availability to fundraising.newark@gmail.com.

We are about to launch a fun ‘Little House’ fundraiser that aims to raise money to buy a shelter/sunshade for our sandpit. Any New Ark child/supporter can take part – look out for information which will be starting to circulate next week!

Do you run/manage a local business that is willing to keep a New Ark fundraising collection tin by your till? If yes please drop us an email with “collection tin” in the title to fundraising.newark@gmail.com

And finally, please do consider buying your Back to School supplies online via www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/newark. Up to 15% of what you spend will be donated to us and there are lots of high street retailers involved including Tesco, John Lewis, Asda, Sainsbury’s, Argos and M+S.

Thanks for your ongoing support everyone.

 

New Ark couldn’t get by without the huge amount of help we get from local families and organisations. Below is a small list of some of those who have helped us recently – a full thank you list is published in our annual report each September.

Summer Fete and history day

We raised £2437.31 at our Summer Fete and History Day. The list of helpers is HUGE and we are almost afraid to publish it for fear or missing anyone out, but here goes:
– Vivacity for funding our history boards, Laura Barnard who did a wonderful job of illustrating our history, and our first playworker Toby Wood who, in true New Ark style, got children to proudly unveil the boards for us.
– All of our hard-working staff who gave up their weekend to help fundraise, and were back at work on Monday bright and cheery as always!
– Every single parent and supporter who helped to organise the fete, be there on the day or clear up afterwards. Your input is truly valued no matter how large or small.
– The following businesses who donated goods or services for the day: John Lewis Distribution (freezer), Sainsbury’s Oxney Road (gardening materials for tombola), and all those who donated a raffle prize (the list of donators and prizes is here).

Repairs and Maintenance help

We regularly have help from local organisations who provide working parties to help us with a particular project. Some recent examples are:
– Princes Trust Peterborough – general gardening and sprucing up of all areas
– Ben Fallows Painting and Decorating Ltd – redecorating our main playroom including donating all paint
– BGL Group – helping to spruce up our farm and orchard area.

Fundraising for our City Farm

The City Farm is a key part of what we do at New Ark, providing children with numerous opportunities to learn about the world, take responsibility, or simply relax by being around the animals. Some of the organisations who help us fundraise for our farm include:
Peterborough Regional College – send regular working parties and support students in fundraising for us
Pets at Home – donate ex shop stock and support our fundraising

Race Night event

We raised £674.96 at our Race Night fundraiser in April 2013. Thank you to everyone who sponsored a race or donated a prize…
Race sponsors
Peterborough Regional College, Eastfield Road – 0845 872 8722
The Elm Tree Tavern, Garton End Road – 01733 358134
The Peacock Pub, London Road – 01733 345637
D J Wilson School of Motoring – 07970 182555
Keeping HR Simple – 01487 815720
Somersby House Tack Shop, Great Gidding – 01832 293426
Blue Bell Inn, Welland Road – 01733 554890
Tu Qian & Helen Si
Prizes donated by…
Syvitta from Odiz, Hill Close Shops
Parcs Restaurant, Peterborough Regional College
Revive Hair, Peterborough Regional College
Complementary Therapies Salon, Peterborough Regional College
Lakeside Superbowl, New Road
Sheila Thompson
Julia and Mike Greene