Edging closer to the half-way mark all the time, my current total stands at £1846!
Today was my planned bag-packing event at my local Sainsbury's at Meadowbank. My fabulous friends Ruth, Laura, Tracy and Christine very kindly gave up their Saturdays to help me raise more money for WaterAid by carefully packing the grocery bags of Saturday shoppers. Dressed in our WaterAid T-shirts and armed with our leaflet, stickers and collecting buckets we hit the tills at 11am and worked tirelessly until 4, packing bags, making small chat and smiling throughout :-)
Many of the customers were very appreciative of our help, particularly the Mums with young children and others were particularly interested in our cause, keen to support the vision and work of WaterAid. Sainsburys appear to do a roaring trade on a Saturday as the queues at the tills were non-stop and the time passed quickly. The cashiers were really helpful too as promoting our services, which we really appreciated :-)
Back home Ruth, Laura and I spent a good half hour counting up all the money and bagging it for the bank. Throwing in a few coins to round it up, we raised £472, nearly £100 each for 5 hours work. This was a fantastic result and shows the dedication and support of my dear friends. Many, many thanks for all your help and commitment, it is greatly appreciated and I couldn't have done it without you! I wish I had remembered to take a photo of us all in our T-shirts for my blog, but at least we know who the Dream Team are!
Thank you also to Martin and Louisa for agreeing to today's bag-packing and to all the cashiers at Sainsburys who shared their tills with us today. Finally massive thanks to every single shopper that showed interest in WaterAid and who donated today, every penny counts, thank you!
Next event is my Quiz night on 24th May, spread the word, the more the merrier! Let's surpass the £2000 mark!
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