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Phenomenal support from The Body Shop At Home™

9/10/2014

 
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Here at Children on the Edge we love to shout about our supporters, not only our dedicated wonderful corporate supporters but also every single passionate individual who chooses to raise money for us. 

The Body Shop At Home™ is an eclectic mix of both of these. They are a long term corporate supporter full of inspiring and inventive individual fundraisers and we wanted to take this opportunity to tell everyone what they have already achieved this year.

We had the pleasure of being invited to attend their Christmas Conference in September and we were overwhelmed by the passion, enthusiasm and generosity that filled the room.

Ben got up on stage to a roaring reception and updated everyone on the progress of our project in Uganda and shared the huge amount of money that has been raised so far (see photo above). This of course included a huge spinning glitter ball, a (customary?!) Coldplay song, a beautiful and moving speech by Rose Schofield  (see photo bottom left) and a few tears. We don’t like to do things by halves here at Children on the Edge!

We were absolutely astounded by the huge amount that has been raised with Bev Ashton and Lou Daly’s regions already smashing their targets for the year with the busiest Christmas period in front of us. So far the Body Shop at Home team has together raised £31,000 from the recruitment and £50 challenge, £2000 on the day from selling raffle tickets and £500 raised through text donations.

There are also huge amount of individuals within The Body Shop At Home™ who put a lot of passion and enthusiasm into raising money for COTE, here are a few of their fundraising escapades to amaze and inspire you. A huge thank you needs to go to:

  • Emma Turner who is running the Run or Dye 5km in Oxford, Alice Blyers who ran the Plymouth Half Marathon and Hannah Dixon who is training for The Bupa Great Birmingham Run. The two potential Brighton marathon runners…
  • The amazing Justine Askew who walked 26 miles in 1 day to raise funds towards our project in Uganda that she was able to experience first hand.
  • Karen Cooney who got her Cycle Crew back together to complete the annual Manchester to Blackpool cycle which she and her partner completed, like true professionals in under 4 and a half hours.
  • Natasha Williams for organising a family fun day and to Rachael Young for getting a talk at her local WI and using that opportunity to shout about Children on the Edge.
  • Donna Hayes who organised the Norwich City Charity Event and raising £855 with a wide range of different activities such as a cake sale, a raffle, tarot card readings, massages, and a range of fashion and modelling shows all held at Senses bar. This looked like quite the organisational feat, well done for pulling it off in such brilliant style.
  • Rose Schofield, Justine Askew, Karina Edgeway and Rachel Jarrett-James who had the incredible opportunity to go out to visit our project in Uganda and take part in the Summer Play Scheme in May 2014 (see photo bottom right).
There are many more Body Shop At Home™ consultants who continue to do extraordinary things for us so please keep checking our website for more stories on these individuals as they happen. 

We’d also like to express our ongoing gratitude to every single one of you who faithfully mention Children on the Edge at your parties and continue to shout and scream about us to anyone who will listen.

The grand total so far this year is £60,780, the target for this year was £70,000. With Christmas coming up is anyone up for trying to smash the £100,000 target?!?

Thanks to Ani Evans photography for donating the photos for this article. Ani is a TBSAH consultant and long time supporter of our work.  Her support has included going out to Moldova to help on one of our play schemes!

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