More fund raising and organizing support for our Christmas Appeal

During the past few weeks I arranged 2 Charity Sales.    These events take a lot of organizing in gathering, sorting and preparing the items for sale, then transporting them and laying everything out including our publicity stands.   The first in our village carnival proved somewhat of a trial with the weather.  We almost got blown away putting up our gazebo, then laid everything out beautifully before the skies opened and we had driving rain.  There we were holding down plastic covers in high winds - in between the showers I ventured out to gain support for naming my huge teddy bear who was a little damp by this time!.  Like all the other stall holders we wrapped up early a little bedraggled and set off home.  We were both shattered and made 35 pounds. 

A week later we held another sale at our Church and this time we managed to raise 200 pounds but could not have done it without the support of our dear friends who helped in many ways.  We had a lot of stock over and after lifting it all back into storage we came home and were ready for bed!!  However, it is all for God's work and we will do whatever we can to raise awareness and funds. 

We have 3 events coming up:  an Old Time Music Hall Sing a Long at Hirwaun OAP Association Hall at 2 pm on 22nd September including a Cake Stall (my mixers will be out again!!).  The 24th September sees our Annual Charity Walk from Hirwaun to Penderyn - up the Foel Mountain and return to a tasty buffet at our Church.  It is around 10 kilometres and we return to a tasty buffet lunch.    Please contact me if you are able to join us and support the Charity's Projects.    Here is a picture of last year's event.  It is a great fun day.  Please pray for good weather.

This year we have 4 runners enroled for the Cardiff Half Marathon (including hubbie Wayne) on 16th October.  If you would like to sponsor them then please contact me.

We also need further support for our Christmas Shoebox Appeal - this year we are down on our normal 600 children's boxes so if you can help then please contact me for a covered box.  In July we managed to fill around 200 boxes at our Church - thanks to our friend Sheila who covers all our boxes, to our Pastors, the Church elders & all our members, to everyone who supported with filled boxes,  with items to fill them and also to our friend Elizabeth Peters who does so much bargain shopping for us.   We also checked another 100 boxes .  All were packed into large boxes ready for transportation.