fantastic weekend

Had a great weekend raised over £1000 this weekend thanks to Beth and Sarah and Morrisons Supermarkets so far we have raised £2700 just under 4 weeks to the challenge we should get to about £6500-£7000 by then thanks everyone for your fantastic support next weekend very busy Friday out and about the streets with our buckets Saturday at Rotherham Interchange Saturday evening at Napoleons Casino Hillsborough and Sunday at ASDA Handsworth my lady is going to be well pleased with me but you do what you have to do.

5 weeks to the challenge

With 5 weeks to go we have currently raised £1700. The hardest thing about any charity event is raising the money we have a Morrisons Weekend coming up next weekend where we will be in Morrisons Catcliffe Friday & Saturday and Morrisons Hillsborough Sunday. A big thankyou to all those people who have supported us up to now.

The Week ahead

Well this week we will be in the Co-Op in Hillsborough that being Friday MORNING if anyone wants to come down and see James & Me that would be good got our total up to £500 so hopefully by next weekend we should be at £1000. If you go onto Facebook you can sign up to the group we are hoping to get over 1000 members if you wish to leave a comment that is great.
regards

JOHN

1 week on and we have taken our first step

If we said that twenty steps were needed to get to £10,000 then we have just taken our first step after 7 days collecting we are at £500 a big thank you to those who are supporting our challenge.You can also keep up with the event on facebook and you can sign up to the group also you can also give support by giving us the thumbs up. If you would like to donate to the challenge you can by sending a cheque payable to THE 48 HOUR CHALLENGE and it can be sent to JOHN BAVERSTOCK 133 VAUXHALL ROAD
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OUR FIRST DAY COLLECTING

Friday the 20th March was the start of our fundraising campaign. We had some bad news Asda at chapeltown wont let us go and collect in there store ans morrisons at ecclesfield have said the same thing this is a real shame as both stores have supported us in the past but this must be the credit crunch kicking in. James and I have decided to go to Darnall and try our luck there we got off to a good start and all ready people are remembering our previous trek we collect for two hours and manage £120.00 this with £50 from N.D.Saftey and £50 from Cargill have got us £220 so not a bad start. £10,000 seems a long way off had some good news on Monday Asda at Handsworth have allocated us a day being 3rd May and Morrisons at Hillsborough have said we can have a couple of days in there store and catcliffe morrisons have stated the same. Decided to e-mail as many people that supply simpkins hopefully e-mails cost nothing and you never know if twenty companies reply with offers of £50 then that is £1000.I am going to e-mail two companies every day up to the challenge in all 78 companies.This Friday we are going to collect in Firth Park and Fir Vale and Page Hall still havent had anyone to challenge us by going the opposite way to us but it is early days

2 MEN 2 BUCKETS 2 GOALS

Well we intend to set out again on this wonderful fund raising experience on the 22nd May.The difference this time we are soley hitch hiking all the trip.For those of you who dont know what the challenge is about i will explain.What my mate James Wood and myself John Baverstock have to do is to get from Sheffield to John O Groats then from John O Groats to Lands End then back to Sheffield within 48 hours.We are aiming to raise £10,000 for the charities St Lukes Hospice, The Childrens Hospital.Blue Bell Wood Childrens Hospice,The Retired Greyhound Trust Wortley and 2 junior football teams.We hope our charities appeal to all the public we enlist the 2 football teams who will help bag pack in supermarkets as we aim to troll the streets of Sheffield in 9 weeks trying to raise £10,000. You can follow how we get on by reading the blog I aim to put on as much information and how we are doing in our quest. You can also send messages of support and if you want to donate to our cause drop me an e-mail at jjmatt1@blueyonder.co.uk and I wil e-mail you back with the best way you can do this

48 HOUR CHALLENGE 2009

Yes we are going again James and I are going to do the origanol challenge SHEFFIELD TO JOHN O GROATS TO LANDS END AND BACK TO SHEFFIELD by HITCH HIKING IN 48 HOURS we are doing the event on 22nd May 2009 aiming to raise £10,000 for Sheffield based charities. A challenge within a challenge we have 10 weeks to raise £10,000 and hopefuuly the good old Sheffield public will get behind us.