Fundraising

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Christmas Raffle

Our annual Christmas Prize draw is now under way. Tickets have been sent to all members but if anyone else would like to buy or sell tickets please contact us, they are available to purchase from Jackson Hall.  Tickets are £1 each and there will be 10 quality prizes including £250 1st Prize and a giant food Hamper for the 2nd prize and a meal for 2 at the Flavours of India. We have nearly sold £1500 lets make it to at least £2000 by December 2nd!  Due to a change in venue for our Christmas lunch after the tickets had been printed the draw will take place at Powder Mills Hotel, Battle on Tuesday 6th December at 3pm(ish).

Parachute Jump

Jo has decided that for her 30th Birthday in 2012 she would like to do a parachute jump and is inviting people to join her.  It costs about £130 which we expect the individuals to pay out of their own pocket so that all the sponsorship money comes directly to the charity.  We just think this is fair if people are sponsoring you to do something.  Please call Jo if you are interested. 

Open Garden

 We are seeking a beautiful garden with good accessibility to hold a fundraising event – can you help?  contact us if you can! Thank you.

Past Events

Winter Ball

We had a fantastic night on Friday 18th November at Leeford Place Hotal.  The Lucky Ones were brilliant and this year the venue was really lovely and warm!   Karen Austin had decorated it in white and lilac drapes with fairy lights in them, which looked really pretty.  Fleur de Lynn, Bellhurst Beauties and Balloons for events helped finish the look off with table flower and balloon arrangements, thanks to Martin who collected and delivered the balloons for us.  Lots of the guests had their photo taken with 1066 Photography so they had a memory of the night and how great they all looked.   We raised £666 from the ticket sales, £240 from selling raffle tickets and on the Auction we took £590 so in total we raised £1496!  Andy Knight did a great job hosting the Auction, the winners were:

Champagne Hot air Balloon ride for 2 – Jamie Cosson

A nights stay for 2 at Zanzibar International Hotel with a Champagne breakfast – Simon Bendle

A signed and framed photograph of a Kingfishertaken near Burwash by Dale Sutton  – Sue Palmer

A Forever Living Products make-up Consultation with a free Lipstick  – Rhiannon Oliver

One to one Pilates or Yoga  session  – Jo Oliver

10 Zumba lessons – Rob Channon

A trailing flower arrangement – Kim Clarke

Our special thanks to Peter Marshall, Max O’Rourke, 1066 Photography, Alison Purves, Al Corkran, Claire from Paragon Personal Training and Rhiannon from Bellhurst Beauties for all their Auction prizes.  We deeply appreciate their support and kindness.

Hastings Sainsbury’s and Tesco Collection Days

Thank you to all the Fundraising volunteers who supported us at Sainsbury’s and Tescos in September.  We did very well raising £408.13 at Sainsbury’s on 2nd & 3rd and £251.62 at Tesco on the 22nd.  Thank you to Liz and Michael who helped collect at Wadhurst, it was our first time here and we did quite well considering the road works raising £151.73!  Thank you for all the help collecting this year so far we have been donated £1465.03!

Bexhill Sainsbury’s Collection day

Well done to all the volunteers who helped over the weekend of the 6th & 7th August.  We did really well at Bexhill Sainsbury’s not only raising £406.81 but also promoting the service to local Carers and recruiting some new volunteers.  So in all it was a very successful weekend!

Charity Clay Shoot

Thank you to everyone who supported this year’s Charity Clay Shoot, in Broad Oak on Sunday July 3rd.  We had lots of lovely positive comments about the day and thankfully it was a beautiful summers day.  We had over 80 people attend and through their generousity we raised  £1613.80!

A special thanks must go to Brede Shooting Club, especially David, Gareth, Robin for arranging and setting up and to Shirley and Mike for working so hard all day on the Have-a-go stand.  We would also like to thank Nick and Margaret Jeffrey for the use of their land and to our generous sponsors Kingsview Optical, Frymans Feeds (local animal and bird, including pheasant feed suppliers) and Channon’s Country Store, we are very grateful for their support which has allowed us to promote the event more effectively.

Remembering Yesterday

Sarah and her musical friends led a fantastic afternoon of dancing and singing along with the Golden Oldies from the old time musicals and 1920′s-1960′s with a Cream Tea at Leeford Place on Sunday 5th June for all the Carers and their cared for and anyone else who wished to come to Celebrate Carers week.  The event which was free for our Carers and their cared for raised £231, thank you to everyone who helped on the day and supplied raffle prizes.

ASDA Collection day

Thank you to all the volunteers who helped collect on Saturday 2nd April and to all the customers of ASDA who gave so generously.  By the end of the day we had raised £246.74!

Hastings Half Marathon

Well done to Sue who managed to do the Hastings Half Marathon in 2 hours and 14 Minutes!  On top on this she raised £543.66 which is simply fantasic and hopefully worth all the agony!

Frog Race

 Thank you to Forestheath Engineering Ltd. for being this year’s main sponsor for the Frog Race on March 3rd.  Fast Print, Burstow and Hewett, John the cobbler, Astec Computing also sponsored the events races with Hastings Brewery and Sambalanco sponsoring a frog each.  Despite a terrible turn out thanks to these wonderful sponsors and to Liam from Fast Print for donating his prize money back, we made £263.60 all for Young Carers.  Thank you also to Tom at Venuu for giving us the club for the night and for helping us set it all up – although it turned I out I am better with Power tools then him!!!  – Jo  

Jumble Sale

Thank you to all the volunteers who helped at our Jumble Sale on Saturday 19th February and to all those who support us either by donating jumble or by coming on the day to have a good rummage.  Special thanks must go to St Lukes Church who kindly donated their hall for us to use for the Jumble which raised £282.48

Christmas Raffle 

The raffle was our best to date!   Well done everyone for buying and selling your tickets which paid for the Christmas lunch and for anyone not within Young Carers to go to the Panto.  We sold £2081 worth of tickets and at the ball we drew 10 tickets with 1st Prize  (£250) going to Mark Tanner, Hastings and 2nd Prize (Large Hamper) was won by Edna Luck, Bexhill,   Thank you to all who gave prizes for the raffle -  Lions Club of Hastings, Hastings Round Table,  Hastings Welsh society, Bannatyne’s spa Hotel, Rye Lions Club,    Hastings and St Leonards Muffin Club, 2nd Nature,  fleur de Lynn, Tesco and Sainsbury’s and members of the Association of Carers

Winter Ball

The winter Ball turned out to be a proper winter Ball, with the temperature plummeting, as forecasted, to below zero and snow falling only 10 miles away, it was a chilly night it could be said!   Everyone arrived, all dressed up and looking wonderful, ready for a  fantastic night.  Sadly though the temperature inside the marquee wasn’t much warmer than the temperature outside and every time a heater was plugged in the power went off!  The food was lovely and the band was ok )but the heating situation never improved. 

I am so sorry for putting everyone who came through the evening and I just want to say thank you so much for supporting us, I was assured on the Thursday before the Ball that the heating would be more than  adequate.  I was bitterly disappointed that it wasn’t and that the managers present that night didn’t even have the decency to apologise to you all.  I am especially sorry to those who have poor health and to the  people from Australia.  We had been in talks with the Managing Director from Bannatynes in regard to compensation, not for us, but for all the guests who attended, but they we never came to an agreement.  In the end they sent us the money they owed us  and we can tell you we raised £1266.51 after expenses had been paid out.   Thank you again for everyone who supported us.

Forever living Products 

Thank you to Alison Purves who in November gave a perctage of her takings to the Association of Carers which came to £18.48 and she also held an open day for us in September which raised £32.37 – Thanks Alison!

 Paint balling 

Thank you to 1066 Paintballing and all who came on 12th September, it was a painful experience but we raised £155.  

Autumn Sale

It was a sad sale this year as it was our last ever at  Filsham Hall and at the end we handed Sister Lucy and Joan Inskipp a  bouquet of flowers and thanked them for their help and support over the years.  We had a  good turn out this year and lots of exciting things including Forever Living Products, which raised £18.48 and thank you so much to everyone who baked cakes for us they alone raised £ 66.50 , the most since I came to work for the AoC in March 2008!  In total the sale raised £445.58 

Young Carers

Thank you to the Thornton Lodge who raised an amazing £2625 for us this year through fundraising activities.  We also received £450 from the Wellington Lodge ( these are both Masonic Lodges).  We have also been given £200 from coffee and Company who meet in Rush Lake Green and  a further £141 from Elaine Copeland who held a raffle to raise the money.

Hastings Half Marathon – 21st March 2010

John Pasco, Sue Palmer and Jo Oliver all did the Hastings half this year, we are still collecting the sponsorship but so far we have collectively raised £648 plus Gift Aid on top!  Thank you to everyone who supported us by sponsoring us. 

Frog Racing Night – corporate & public entertainment

We held on Thursday 21st Januray our first frog race, thank you goes to our sponsors, Kingsview Optical, Venuu, Astec computing, Fast Print and Studio Hastings and to all those who turned up!  In the end we raised £298 which is going towards our Young Carers project.  Please note no frogs were harmed during the event all frogs were wooden shapes, painted to look something like a frog with string through their heads!

Thank you to all the Volunteers who helped Collect money over the last year, it isn’t as easy this year with the recession hitting Hastings which was already a deprived area so thank you for your time and effort. We have raised from collections the amounts as follows : Jempson Peasmarsh £152,  Rye Budgens £234 and Battle Budgens £1663.77, Marks and Spencers £310.48, Bexhill Tesco £400!  THANK YOU!!!

Grants

Thank you to the following for providing us with Grants this Year:

ESCC £65,000 a year for 3 years (Respite & Befriending Service)

ESCC £ 4650 (over 6 months with a possibility of extra funding over 3 years from march 2012 for Young Carers Befriending service)

Lloyds TSB Foundation England and Wales £14,000 (£31,000 over 2 years for peer support project and Talk and Support expansion to cover all adult Carers and Young Carers Befriending)

Sobell Foundation £3000 (Respite & Befriending Service)

Sussex Community Foundation £2850  (Rye and Rother expansion)

Ted Baker Trust  £500 (Rye and Rother expansion)

ESCC £2215  (Talk and Support  – start up money)

Comic Relief £8775  ( Talk and Support  – £45k over 3 years)

Seed Corn Fund £2400 ( Computer Help at Home)

Our Fundraising Target for 2011/2012

We are very fortunate and a majority of the money we need to run our respite service comes from East Sussex County Coucil, but we are now having to become less reliant on this one funding stream.  Our total running costs this year are predicted to be £129, 500.  Last year we needed to raise an additional £34,000 for new, volunteers training and travel costs and our social occassions.  Thank you to everyone who help us achieve this amount so far.  Next year we

In total we need to find an extra  £36,500 on top of the Money given by the Local Authorities.

A gift in your will

If you are interested in leaving a legacy to the Association of Carers please contact us for details on how to do this or contact your Solicitor. Please make sure that you have our correct name & address: Association of Carers address: Jackson Hall, Portland Place, Hastings East Sussex TN34 1QN and Registered Charity Number: 1004055

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