spreadsheets and comic relief!

My day off of work has been spent attached to my laptop with a telephone at my ear.

I have one fund-raiser booked for April and a provisional for June. there will be lots of little things in-between and a lot of hard work. However it will all be worth it!

In April we will be having a quiz and a raffle. I am meeting a nice man from  Tesco at the weekend who will be donating some eggs for our raffle!

I have spread sheets and documents open all over the place and have 8 tabs open for the Internet.
Fund raising is hard! Luckily there are 3 of us doing it.

its all %%%%%%! ok so if this is the cost price per head, what % can we raise per person? how much can I expect to raise from the raffle? This would be fine if I was any good at figures! Hence the mass  of spreadsheets.

It will all be worth it! I am looking forward to our cycle at the weekend.

As well as sorting out fundraising and pottering round the house, I have had Chris Moyles on all day. I had to forgo my women's hour day off treat. Chris Moyles is like a sausage and egg McMuffin, a guilty pleasure!

He is like Marmite, you either love him or hate him. He and Dave have just raised over 1,000,000 for comic relief as they have been going for 37 hours and will be keeping going till they reach 52 hours of broadcasting.

Well done Chris and Dave 

Day off tomorrow!

Day off tomorrow!!!!

I love having day's off, I usually like to have lunch with friend's or to go shopping.

Not this time though. I am meeting with my friends after work on Friday as there is a leaving do!
Tomorrow will be organising fund-raising and doing some work from home!

As you are aware we are doing this charity bike ride in November, the charity part of this includes raising a lot of money!!! Tomorrow, I will be arranging some events! contacting people for Donation's and prizes. etc. 

I am going to start off slow with an Easter Egg raffle!!!

I will be contacting chocolate selling shops asking them to donate some egg's.

Then go round all of my friends and start selling the tickets!

Well I will post my progress tomorrow!!

The start of an amazing journey

Today is the start of an 8 month journey, this journey will test, my creativity, endurance, perseverance, patience,stamina, commitment,  fitness ........ The Journey ends with a 400km cycle ride across Vietnam and Cambodia.

I am not doing this on my own, I am doing it with 2 very good friend's and 100 other women.

Why? you might ask, We are doing it to raise money for genesis research trust

Today, we went to the information day at Imperial College London.

It was amazing to be in a room with so many other women who are all doing the same thing. As I am on the large side I worried that I might be the largest in the room and everyone would look at me as if to say, What are you doing here? But no I was wrong, there were many women of all ages, shapes and sizes.

We had talks about the ride, how to prepare, more about the Charity including an address by Professor Robert Winston, The founding chairman of the Genesis Trust.

The journey between now and November is the training and fund-raising we need to do!

My personal reason's are contained in my bearded lady post I have been affected by gynaecological problem's my entire adult life and want to be able to give something back as I have benefited from the research that has gone into my condition's.

Their vision.
Advances in the well being of women and babies can only be achieved by research into the disorders which can affect anyone. Our primary aim is to improve the health of the unborn child and its mother.


Our successes include:
* One of the first screening programmes for cervical cancer
* One of the first pregnancy ultrasound screening programmes
* Early advances into placental physiology
* The prevention of premature labour
* Investigation into the genes involved in female cancers and embryo implantation
* The reduction of brain damage in babies born in a vulnerable state. 


I will still be doing my usual blogs but will be keeping a track of my fundraising and training progress. 


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