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but BIG MASSIVE thanks to the following:

• Mark who has donated a wonderful prize of a BESPOKE PHOTOSHOOT. Check him out MIimagery
• Sophie Keegan who makes beautiful jewellery and clothing will donating one of her fantastic items as a raffle prize. She'll be at the Vintage Fair at Birmingham Pavillions this Saturday so go take a peepsy if you're around.
• Donna Scott of The Balloon Hub  has donated the biodegrabable ballons needed for the balloon release.
• Jo Coleman and Charlie Dunn who are donating fabulous (trust me I've tried them) cakes for you all to devour on the day.

Plus thank you to the other people who have offered raffle prizes. It's very much appreciated.


Thanks again all and again and keep em coming!

xxxxxx

Treats and Tweets

All good business meetings revolve around a good dinner. If you didn't know this then you need to get your boss to arrange your next team meeting over dinner and just see, it's far more successful when there is the prospect of good food and a glass of good wine. It's a fact. A lesser known fact; Dusty Springfield's song You Don't Have To Say You Love Me was written in cab on the way to a good dinner.

So with this in mind, I tempted my best friends into a Severn Valley Cycle Race 'Business Meeting' over an Aubergine Parmigiana, some wine and strawberries. How could they resist? And they did me proud I may add. Whilst the girls nattered marketing strategies, Nathan updated our blog look and got us tweeting. Now I just have to learn how to use it. Find us @svrcyclerace...

Among the various lists made there was the following and so - my begging call goes out again - if you can loan/lend/donate any of the items on the list or know someone who can please please get in touch. Some of the items may seem silly and small but every little thing adds up and we don't have a pot of money for supplies so any help, big or small, would be gratefully received!

The List - in pictures, I'm embracing handwriting again before I forget how to....

Happy Solstice all! xx

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Kindess, like a boomerang, always returns

You know, people never cease to amaze me. Mostly it's because I've seen or heard something so utterly stupid, such as a person faxing me a sample of card she wishes to use (really? yes really) or asking me to omit the lemon from the lemon sole because of a citrus allergy. However, today I say it completely respectfully and thankfully. I was canvassing for prize and event donations again yesterday. Having reached my limit in money I am prepared to give to royal mail in a week, I hit the High Street with my bag of begging letters and a wholesome smile. Now I'd like to think it was the latter that gave me the responses I had but if I'm truly honest, it's just that most people I have come across in this whole event have been truly wonderful. I came away with a voucher from a party shop with which we can buy balloons and helium for the release, a Waitrose voucher and the lovely owner of my local corner shop said "give me a list of things you need and I'll sort them." How nice. But it's not just the physical giving that's so lovely, it's the attitude and willingness to help with time or effort. Everyone I encountered on my begging trail wanted to help, even if they couldn't directly and were so encouraging. And that's not all, Stourbridge Fire Service have offered helped, a vehicle and their time. Friends and family are giving up so much time and effort to help as well and I'm certain it's not just for me, it's because people genuinely like to help. Maybe I'm naive or maybe I'm just lucky to have so many wonderful people around me. Whichever way it is, I really am thankful to every single person that has given me advice, an opinion, their time or energy.


Now, enough with the gushing, let's get practical again. The posters and invites are done! Working his mouse finger very hard yesterday, Nathan 'executive designer extradonaire' Carvell has done a fabulously fantastical job, as can be seen below.

If you would like any to help with advertising please let me know and when they're printed I shall send you some. Otherwise, feel free to advertise through facebook, twitter, etc.

S'all for now folks, tired myself out with all that sentimental spouting! Back soon for some more progress hopefully!!


xx

T minus 10 weeks!

Wow it's been a long time. I apologise, but it's certainly not a reflection of the work we've been doing!
So what's been going on? Well here's a little update:

• Have been in touch with Stourbridge Fire Station who very kindly, but not surprisingly, are fully on board and are getting together some more cyclists and mostly definitly some attendees for the day.
• Donations are still rolling in, the latest being from a fantastic company called Graze who have offered some of their products to keep our cyclists pumped and energised!
• Resident graphic designer Nathan Carvell of nthncreative is on the case with invitations and posters. They will be featured on here shortly but should you like any to help us advertise please let me know and I will post some out to you.
• Cyclist packs are on the way to any of you wonderful riders so please send them back as soon as you can.

So all in all, we're going well, but we can only continue to go well with your help. We're less than 10 weeks away so get on your promoting horses and gee up all you know to help us make the day fantastic.
Remember also - the JustGiving page is live so please feel free to promote it along with the event. At the end of the day we're aiming to raise some fantastic money for Macmillan to help them with the fantastic work they do and help people like Martin.

So that was just a quickie but we'll be back SHORTLY with more update and info. 

xx