More fundraising

Last Friday (1st March) I ran a murder mystery with a three course meal for 18 of my friends, raising £275 towards my total! It was great fun, even if it entailed much more planning than I had  originally presumed there would be. As the 'host', or 'events manager' I was in charge of the evening, and when you've got people trying to kill each other (rock-paper-scissors style, obviously) in three different rooms at once and a proposal then things can disintegrate slightly, but I just about managed to stay in control! In the end only one person died... I have since had requests to repeat the evening every weekend, but this (extremely) unlikely to happen.

Anyway, this, along with a £250 grant from a school fund, brings my total to nearly £2,500 - still a long way short of the total of £5,400. Although I won't meet Project Trust's deadline of £3000 by Easter, I have a wine tasting planned that will take me well past that amount some time in April.

Oh, and you might have noticed how much I like using brackets.

You can help!

I've just set up an account at www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/thomassykes so that you can all help me raise money! Whenever you do any online shopping you can do it via this website, and the company that you buy from will donate a percentage of your payment to me. It incurs no extra cost for you, and will help me to raise the £5,400 that I need!

The cause that you enter to support is 'Voluntary teaching in Guyana with Project Trust - Thomas Sykes'. 

If you make it your homepage you'll remember whenever you go online to shop.....

Another step along the way

Around a week ago I found out my training dates for my year away; the 10th - 15th of July. Although it was promised that this would be an intensive and demanding few days, I am hugely looking forward to going back to Coll and Project Trust's Hebridean Centre. I was also recently sent a list of inoculations that Project Trust requires all their volunteers to have:

• Polio
• Tetanus
• Typhoid
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Rabies

I've already started on these, with hepatitis A and typhoid, as well as my first (of three!) for hepatitis B done last week.... And then I'll need three for rabies. It also transpired that (according to the doctors' records) I might have missed a couple of jabs for polio and tetanus when I was younger. Blame the parents. Oh, and according to the doctor I need yellow fever jabs. Whoopee.

Thank You!!

Thank you very much to everyone who come to my breakfast today and donated! It was great fun,and raised an outstanding total of £827, which is absolutely fantastic! I can't thank everyone enough, and I'm really pleased to make such a brilliant start.

Thank you, you're all beautiful!

Just a quick update..

A massive thank you to those who have already donated! I'm extremely grateful, as every little bit makes next year seem ever closer and heightens my excitement.

On New Years' Day I'm running a breakfast/brunch at my house between 9am-2pm as my first fundraising event. If you'd like to come and I haven't emailed you yet, drop me an email at tomtom.sykes@googlemail.com for info. If you do intend to come, please let me know as soon as possible so I can get the mountains of bacon prepared...