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
