The Mighty Month Of May

This month, as the title suggests has been awesome!

I was allowed to hold a non uniform day and sell cakes in my high school in return for doing two assemblies explaining to the students in school what I was doing, where I was going and why we were having a non uniform day! Everyone had to wear an element of blue and/or white to symbolise the Honduras flag, and it was a great success! I am yet to receive the money from this fundrasing event but it was about £500 which is an enormous help. Thank you especially to one teacher, Dr Neal Jones who wrote me a check for £54.00 1% of the money that I have to raise in total, it was a very kind gesture and proved that he had listened to my assembly as well!

We then had the Zumbathon last sunday! I had been worrying about the event all week, fearing that nobody would actually come and we would have 100's of cakes to split between me and my family! This however was not the case, and everyone had a wonderful if not exhausting day and helped me raise £854 which is amazing!

I have just received two cheques in the post, one from my auntie Wendy, so thank you auntie wendy and uncle steve, and another from my dentist's practice donating £50 to my cause! I wrote him a letter months ago, so it's nice to have some unexpected money through the post! Thank you Clifton Dental Practice Newtown

April

This month has been spent publicising the Zumbathon, getting posters out to people, selling tickets, Zumbathon team meetings and the gathering of raffle prizes!

We had a Zumbathon meeting in Newtown's Exchange, and got the tickets and posters to instructors, and sorted out the playlist and schedule for the event, it was all very exciting to meet everyone who would be helping, and it's humbling to think they are willing to give up their sunday to help me raise money!

My school have finally given me a date for the non-uniform day that I am allowed to hold, 3rd of May, provided that I do two assemblies to explain what it is I'm doing and why we are having a non-uniform day for me..this will be very scary but I need to man up and accept that I will need to get used to talking to large groups of people, even my peers. I will also be holding a cake sale, some of my friends have volunteered to make cakes which is always helpful!


School work and revision is starting to pile up now, and it doesn't help that Ive managed to lose my memory stick but it will hopefully be returned to me soon. Fund-raising is still a major priority although I am happy to have reached £2,000!

Valentine's Day!

So last night i hired a local club to host a Valentine's dance for people in the area. At the beginning of the night i was stressing out, worried that no one would come and i would have to pay for everything myself

Luckily, just as my friends and family had predicted, people did come, lots of people in fact! I ended up covering my costs of hire and staff, and still make £199.50.. which although does not seem like a great deal of money, every little does in fact help!

So thank you to all those who attended :)

£1000

I've finally hit the £1000 mark, and it has made me feel a lot more confident about raising all this money!

Last month I held a raffle in my school, the prize being two tickets to the Wales vs Ireland 6Nations Game in Cardiff. I raised a total of £191.26 (I have no idea where the 26p came from but every little helps) Unfortunately the game didn't see Wales as victorious however the winners of the tickets had a brilliant time!

Diolch yn fawr i Sioned Bowen am ei gyfraniad!
Thank you to Sioned Bowen for her contribution!

Also my auntie Jeanie and Uncle John for their recent help towards reaching my goal!

Newtown Rotary Club were kind enough to sponsor me a total of £250, a massive help so thank you very much! I will be going to do a talk there upon my return from Honduras, so not only have you helped me get to my project but you are allowing me to talk about it when i come back as well!

I have the Valentine's Dance booked on thursday and arrangements are going well for that!