A big big thank you - we reached our target!!

Just wanted to say a very,  very  BIG thank you to everyone who has jumped on board and helped make our Trans Tasman project possible.  In particular to Giuseppe for contributing immensely and really managing the project for majority of the duration. To Allesha  for putting in so many of the hard yards with her students on 3east.  The project really wouldn’t have been so successful without  the work of you both.

Thank you so much to Andrew from Ties ‘n’ cuffs (donation of the pins), David and his staff at the Station Hotel in Prahran (selling our merchandise & the bbq)  and Martin from Recognition ID (donation of the pens). Your generosity is incredibly humbling and has allowed us to raise this wonderful amount.

To everyone else for selling, managing, eating, wearing, donating  and spreading the word – Fantastic and thank you!

AND FOR THE BIG NEWS…

Although we haven’t quite finished, we are pleased to inform you that we have actually surpassed our $1000 target!!!   We have approx $1300 and we still have a further  2 weeks of fundraising left. This is not including the fantastic Scholastic donation of books (thank you Glenda).

In the next 3-4 weeks the wellbeing activity for the students at Chisnallwood Intermediate School will be decided.  We will inform you  of the outcome and final amount raised.

Thank you again, you surely have contributed to brightening the day of these brave and resilient kids.

Greg Somerville BBQ a big success

On Sunday the 16th , before the Australia vs New Zealand Rugby World Cup semi final, Allesha and I went down to the Station Hotel in Prahran to support the BBQ that was being hosted by former All Black and Melbourne Rebels player Greg Somerville. The hotel manager Dave had organised the guest appearance, purchased the food and had very kindly decided that all proceeds would go to our Trans Tasman project. (THANK-YOU DAVE!!)  We found Greg to be a very warm  and personable person who was genuinely very interested in  our project.  From Christchurch, he has a very good understanding of the difficult times the community has and continues to go through and thought our project was great. Not only did he donate his time, he also made a donation which was fabulous:)

While Greg chatted to the patrons, Allesha and I took the opportunity to sell the merchandise throughout the venue. I must say the customers were exceptionally supportive and bought plenty of our merchandise. 

We left before the game but I think we raised an additonal $200 which is fantastic.

A big thank you to the Station Hotel and all the staff for supporting us so tremendously. As some of you would know, the New Zealand All Blacks were victorious over the Wallabies and play in this Sunday's final.  This will be the last week the merchandise is on sale so  we will then see how much we have raised:)

Thanks again everyone,  top job! 

Project Wrapping up

The last 3 weeks we have been continuing to sell our products.  We have almost reached out project funds goal which is fantastic!!  Thank you so much everyone who has been supporting our project, especially those who have helped devour over 2000 chocolates :)

We will be stepping up the selling process over the next 3-4 weeks to try and sell the remaining wristbands and pins.  And of course a big thanks to Recognition ID  who have donated a large quantity of  these fantastic pens 

Pens avaiable for a small donation

We are still waiting to hear from students at Chinallwood Intermediate  in regards to what they would like the money to go towards. We have asked them for their suggestions by October 17th whereby we will post  a poll on the blog for RCH students to vote for their preferred wellbeng activity.

The project will be wrapped up by the end of October and the money will be presented to the school or activity organisation early November. 

Thanks again everyone and we look forward to the end result :)



A big thank you to Dave and The Station Hotel

Last Monday  RCH teachers met with Dave, the manager from The Station Hotel. We had approached him the week before to see if he would be interested in supporting out project by selling our merchandise during the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
We took wristbands, pins ans chocolates to the meeting and Dave was  extremely kind and jumped aboard to support us.
Dave was very impressed with all the work from the students and thinks the public will get behind the project as it is such a worthy cause.
Thank you to all the hard work of students so far and thanks to the work experience girls who quickly whipped up some promotional posters.
Stay tuned as Dave is gong to email is weekly an let us know how our merchandise is selling.   A very big thank you again Dave!  Your generosity and kindness is very much appreciated and will make a huge difference to the students at Chisnallwood Intermediate.

THANK YOU

Recognition ID - recognising a wonderful & worthwhile project

Allesha presented at a conference a few weeks ago and was approached by a teacher whose husband was a director of the company Recognition ID. They were so moved by our project that they offered to support the project by donating merchandise. Allesha liaised with Mark on the adolescent ward and has arranged for some pens to be printed. Thanks so much Recognition ID for supporting our project. Thanks to Allesha for the ace networking and thanks to Mark for organising suitable products. Nice job everyone!

AGM & August round up

The Education Institute held their Annual General Meeting last Tuesday. Allesha did a fantastic job presenting our project and thank you to all the wonderful people who supported our fundraising appeal. There was lots of great feedback about the contributions of the students so thank you!

The last lot of chocolates will arrive tomorrow. Can you be believe we have sold over 1450 chocolates! Amazing!!! The Pins are selling well and the wristbands.. Well they have been a little slower. Hopefully we can sell some of these over the next month.

We sent wristbands to all of room 7 last week and they loved them. A few of the teachers also received the pins and they thought the logo was very cute.

the students have written another lot of letters to suggest ideas about what the money should go towards. Please keep your ideas coming.

We are hoping to wrap up the project around October so looking forward to seeing what wonderful wellbeing activity we will provide for students at Chisnallwood Intermediate.

Have a great week and keep up the good work promoting our project and our products!

What will we do with the money??

As our fundraising is in full swing we thought it was time to ask for suggestions as to what we should put the money towards.   We are almost 1/2 way to our target of $1000 and we hope to reach it  in the next few months.  We will be asking students in Room 7 at Chisnallwood Intermediate to tell us what they would like, however it would be great if we could offer some suggestions. It is our hope that the money goes towards improving the wellbeing of these students who have been through so much this  year. 
Things to remember are:

• Students are between 11-13 years of age
• There are approx 750 students
• Grass areas and fields may be closed due to the water damage  & liqufaction

Post your ideas and we will run a poll to vote in the next few weeks.

thanks