As many of you are aware Chris from Killerviral (aka z3r0kuwl) was the BBR2007 winner. The prize was a stonking big trophy and free entry into BBR08. In a massive gesture Chris donated the ticket to Team SMARTies.
The Ebay auction ended last night and made its £500 face value! So, £500 from the auction winner, £500 from Missionfish (Ebays charity arm) and £500 from a company that (currently) would like to remain nameless means (calculator out) £1,500 is added to our fund total (now at £7,731.86).
We can't thank Chris enough for his very generous donation (and of course his co driver Paul) and would also like to say a big thank you to all the websites who posted about the auction in their forums, we couldn't have done it without you all!
All the best,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
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December 2007 Update
What a year we have had! It was, of course, with deep sadness that we began our fundraising but, over the months we have taken great comfort from the people we have met, the kindness so many have shown and the opporunities we have had to talk to people about Rose and the Charities we are supporting.
Yesterday we watched our latest eBay auctions raise a fantastic £262 for Rose's Tribute Fund which means our fundraising total now stands at £6,101.76!
We couldn't have got this far without our many loyal supporters and it's only right that we say a BIG THANK YOU to you all and wish you a Merry Christmas from all here at rosemcgill.co.uk.
So what next? Well, 2008 has a lot instore for Team Smarties and RoseBuddies Auctions including an auction of a space in the BritBallRun 2008. More details about this will appear here in early January.
We will also be asking for ideas on what costumes we should wear for the BritBallRun. We will remain as Team SMARTies so we need some great ideas of costumes that fit in with this name...and can be easily worn in the Roadster!
2008 will also see a few projects coming together to help Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology directly. Again, we'll tell you more about this in the New Year!
For now we hope you all have a great Christmas and wish you all the best for 2008.
See you in the New Year,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies / RoseBuddies Auctions
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
Yesterday we watched our latest eBay auctions raise a fantastic £262 for Rose's Tribute Fund which means our fundraising total now stands at £6,101.76!
We couldn't have got this far without our many loyal supporters and it's only right that we say a BIG THANK YOU to you all and wish you a Merry Christmas from all here at rosemcgill.co.uk.
So what next? Well, 2008 has a lot instore for Team Smarties and RoseBuddies Auctions including an auction of a space in the BritBallRun 2008. More details about this will appear here in early January.
We will also be asking for ideas on what costumes we should wear for the BritBallRun. We will remain as Team SMARTies so we need some great ideas of costumes that fit in with this name...and can be easily worn in the Roadster!
2008 will also see a few projects coming together to help Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology directly. Again, we'll tell you more about this in the New Year!
For now we hope you all have a great Christmas and wish you all the best for 2008.
See you in the New Year,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies / RoseBuddies Auctions
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
October 2007 Update
Well, the BritBallRun seems so long ago now! According to the ticker we have 10 months, 2 weeks and 2 days till we do it all again! We are both quite excited about it already and hope that we have learnt from this year...for example, we need to bring a clipboard and smaller map!
We have now finished the auctions of all the items we were given for this years event and our fundraising total stands at a fantastic £5024.47! With this in mind and knowing we have no intention of stopping we have decided to increase our fundraising target to £10,000!
It's always great to have something to strive for and we are missing seeing our little bar increasing with each donation! So, here's hoping we smash through our target before the BritBallRun 2008! :o)
Our Christmas Cards will be going on sale from Sunday 21st October so don't forget to keep checking in on Our eBay Shop for further details!
Team SMARTies are off for a well deserved holiday this week, should you have any queries please use the Contact Us form on our website and Dave, our Web Guru, will get back to you!
See you all in a couple of weeks!
All the best,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
We have now finished the auctions of all the items we were given for this years event and our fundraising total stands at a fantastic £5024.47! With this in mind and knowing we have no intention of stopping we have decided to increase our fundraising target to £10,000!
It's always great to have something to strive for and we are missing seeing our little bar increasing with each donation! So, here's hoping we smash through our target before the BritBallRun 2008! :o)
Our Christmas Cards will be going on sale from Sunday 21st October so don't forget to keep checking in on Our eBay Shop for further details!
Team SMARTies are off for a well deserved holiday this week, should you have any queries please use the Contact Us form on our website and Dave, our Web Guru, will get back to you!
See you all in a couple of weeks!
All the best,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
We're Still Here!
We thought it was about time we popped in and let you all know that we are still around!
After catching up on some well needed sleep we have spent a lot of time discussing where we go now with our fundraising! Over the coming weeks, with the help of our web guru, Dave, we will be setting up the next step in our fundraising. There is a lot of excitement here in the Team SMARTies camp, but, for now we'll have to keep you all in suspense! Keep checking in here and as soon as we have everything ready we'll make a post to fill you all in on the details!
In the meantime if you have any fundraising ideas of your own that you think we might be able to use please get in touch with us either via the Contact Us section on the website or by sending us an Email!
More from us soon!
All the best,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
After catching up on some well needed sleep we have spent a lot of time discussing where we go now with our fundraising! Over the coming weeks, with the help of our web guru, Dave, we will be setting up the next step in our fundraising. There is a lot of excitement here in the Team SMARTies camp, but, for now we'll have to keep you all in suspense! Keep checking in here and as soon as we have everything ready we'll make a post to fill you all in on the details!
In the meantime if you have any fundraising ideas of your own that you think we might be able to use please get in touch with us either via the Contact Us section on the website or by sending us an Email!
More from us soon!
All the best,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
What happens now?
A question we have asked ourselves numerous times this past week or so!
Here's a few of our thoughts:
All the best,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
Here's a few of our thoughts:
- Rose's Tribute Fund will carry on with all proceeds from our fundraising efforts continuing to be donated to Clatterbridge Cancer Campaign in memory of Rose.
- www.rosemcgill.co.uk will continue to be the base for Team SMARTies and any future RoseBuddies Auctions.
- Over the next few weeks various changes will be made to the website so that everything is up to date and people can find what they are looking for a little easier.
- Plans are currently underway for a BritBallrun get together near Christmas which we hope will allow us to meet up and have a beer, dinner and lots of laughs with the folks who took part this year. More about this as and when we get the details!
- At some point we will also make an annoucement regarding next years Britballrun!
All the best,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
Countdown...5...
5 days to go!
But just 2 and a bit days till we set off on our travels!
Andrew has a radio interview tomorrow and if technology works as it should we hope to make the interview available in the latest news section later this week.
The tutorial is now ready and will be up on the site in the next few days. It will help you all download and use the tracking software so you can keep an eye on where we are over the 3 days, send us messages of support or point out where we took that wrong turning!
That's it for today from Team Smarties world, I promise to make bigger updates tomorrow and Wednesday!
All the best,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
But just 2 and a bit days till we set off on our travels!
Andrew has a radio interview tomorrow and if technology works as it should we hope to make the interview available in the latest news section later this week.
The tutorial is now ready and will be up on the site in the next few days. It will help you all download and use the tracking software so you can keep an eye on where we are over the 3 days, send us messages of support or point out where we took that wrong turning!
That's it for today from Team Smarties world, I promise to make bigger updates tomorrow and Wednesday!
All the best,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
Countdown..7...
7 days to go!
This time next week Andrew and I should be reaching our 2nd checkpoint of the day. Hopefully we will still be talking to one another and we'll have collected all the things on the first list!
After a hard week at work Andrew said last night, "All day today I have been looking forward to the weekend when I can wash the little Roadster and begin putting the decals on her ready for the Britballrin". I hope it's not raining for him today!
Hopefully we'll get some pictures of the car over the next couple of days which I'll put in the photos section.
Today is my day off! Taking my little brother to a football match and then off to see the Simpsons movie...it's good to relax!
Thanks, as always, to all those who are supporting us. It means a lot to us.
All the best,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
This time next week Andrew and I should be reaching our 2nd checkpoint of the day. Hopefully we will still be talking to one another and we'll have collected all the things on the first list!
After a hard week at work Andrew said last night, "All day today I have been looking forward to the weekend when I can wash the little Roadster and begin putting the decals on her ready for the Britballrin". I hope it's not raining for him today!
Hopefully we'll get some pictures of the car over the next couple of days which I'll put in the photos section.
Today is my day off! Taking my little brother to a football match and then off to see the Simpsons movie...it's good to relax!
Thanks, as always, to all those who are supporting us. It means a lot to us.
All the best,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
Yorkshire Treasure Hunt
We'd like to send a BIG thank you to Graham, Trena and the family for all their hard work putting this together! We raised another £100 for Rose's Tribute Fund which is fantastic!!We had a great drive out, sat in the car in Wetherby in a thunderstorm (we didn't get the clues there for obvious reasons!), Andi wandered around a golf club car park searching for 2 different colour roses, we brought back something from outer space (dont ask!) and generally had a good laugh :)
Oh and....WE WON! :o)
Thanks to all those who lent their support, we really appreciated it!
All the best,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
Weekly Update 6: 22nd June 2007
It's been another busy week with plenty to keep me out of trouble!
We are in the process of finalizing the GPS tracking which means you will all be able to visit the website anytime during the BritBallRun and check out our exact location! Many thanks to Simon at Vehicle Tracking Ltd for all his help in organising this.
This past week has seen the addition of a few more items for us to Auction...
* Thanks to Tom and Julie at Spotty Badger Productions we have an autographed copy of their book 'The Smart Scene' up for auction. More details on this item can be found HERE
* Thanks to Andy for donating a Odys 10.2" Multi Flat 51002 LCD-TV/DVD & Radio. To find out more and to place a bid CLICK HERE
The auction of the Everton FC Autographed Football is underway and the highest bid is currently £150! CLICK HERE for more details and to place a bid.
Thanks to Ben at www.nurburgring.org.uk for kindly agreeing to display our banner ad from now until the Britballrun. Anybody else interested in placing the banner on their website/blog or other internet based 'thing' just CONTACT US and we'll send you the details!
Once again we would like to thank all of you for your continued help and support, it means a lot to us!
All the best,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
We are in the process of finalizing the GPS tracking which means you will all be able to visit the website anytime during the BritBallRun and check out our exact location! Many thanks to Simon at Vehicle Tracking Ltd for all his help in organising this.
This past week has seen the addition of a few more items for us to Auction...
* Thanks to Tom and Julie at Spotty Badger Productions we have an autographed copy of their book 'The Smart Scene' up for auction. More details on this item can be found HERE
* Thanks to Andy for donating a Odys 10.2" Multi Flat 51002 LCD-TV/DVD & Radio. To find out more and to place a bid CLICK HERE
The auction of the Everton FC Autographed Football is underway and the highest bid is currently £150! CLICK HERE for more details and to place a bid.
Thanks to Ben at www.nurburgring.org.uk for kindly agreeing to display our banner ad from now until the Britballrun. Anybody else interested in placing the banner on their website/blog or other internet based 'thing' just CONTACT US and we'll send you the details!
Once again we would like to thank all of you for your continued help and support, it means a lot to us!
All the best,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
Weekly Update 4: 8th June 2007
2 months, 2 weeks, 3 days to go!
Just a quick post today as things are pretty busy here, but, I am unable to talk about most of it at the moment!
Andrew's sunburn has begun to ease and my first physio appointment yesterday went very well. If Andrew can keep his bouts of 'man flu' at bay then there is a good chance we might both be in fairly good health by August!
A reminder for anyone in the Yorkshire area on 1st July. The Treasure Hunt is shaping up nicely and we are looking forward to getting a little practice in before the Britballrun. If you fancy joining us check out THIS post.
We are currently working on a poster / leaflet with details of our fundraising on that can be placed on noticeboards so, if you know of somewhere you could place one (or more) then please CONTACT US and we'll arrange for you to get some copies!
Another BIG thank you to you all for your continued support. Our fundraising total currently stands at £3,197.99 and we both feel confident that we'll hit our target!
All the best,
Natalya
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
Just a quick post today as things are pretty busy here, but, I am unable to talk about most of it at the moment!
Andrew's sunburn has begun to ease and my first physio appointment yesterday went very well. If Andrew can keep his bouts of 'man flu' at bay then there is a good chance we might both be in fairly good health by August!
A reminder for anyone in the Yorkshire area on 1st July. The Treasure Hunt is shaping up nicely and we are looking forward to getting a little practice in before the Britballrun. If you fancy joining us check out THIS post.
We are currently working on a poster / leaflet with details of our fundraising on that can be placed on noticeboards so, if you know of somewhere you could place one (or more) then please CONTACT US and we'll arrange for you to get some copies!
Another BIG thank you to you all for your continued support. Our fundraising total currently stands at £3,197.99 and we both feel confident that we'll hit our target!
All the best,
Natalya
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
Weekly Update 3: 1st June 2007
I can't believe how quickly time is passing! The coming weeks are filled with lots of trips and plenty of things to get crossed off the 'to do' list but it's all good fun!
This week Andrew is sunning himself with some equally nutty Roadster owners - hopefully he's having a great time and taking a few pictures which we can stick in the gallery on the site!
Whilst 'The Driver' is away I've been keeping busy! Here's a quick run down of just a few things I've been working on:
Donation's are rising steadily which is really great to see! Our current total stands at £3,147.99! Thanks to all of you for your support, it is greatly appreciated.
A quick reminder that comments have been enabled on posts here in the latest news section so feel free to say hi and let us know any thoughts or ideas you may have!
So, another week closer! As I write this the 'ticker' tells me it's 2 months, 3 weeks and 3 days till the Britballrun!! I can't wait!
All the best,
Natalya
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
This week Andrew is sunning himself with some equally nutty Roadster owners - hopefully he's having a great time and taking a few pictures which we can stick in the gallery on the site!
Whilst 'The Driver' is away I've been keeping busy! Here's a quick run down of just a few things I've been working on:
- It was great to hear from Moss Bros in Norwich who have kindly agreed to loan Andrew his top hat and tails for as long as we need them, free of charge! They were extremely helpful and friendly - a real pleasure to talk to!
- I have 'sold' the front edges of the car - more about this in next weeks update!
- We annouced the 'Yorkshire Treasure Hunt' during the week . This is being held on 1st July 2007 starting here in Leeds. More information can be found in THIS post.
- I was lucky enough to get to speak to Matt Neal as part of my sponsorship efforts for the car. He was a really friendly guy and extremely helpful! He also gave me a well needed confidence boost - thanks Matt!
Donation's are rising steadily which is really great to see! Our current total stands at £3,147.99! Thanks to all of you for your support, it is greatly appreciated.
A quick reminder that comments have been enabled on posts here in the latest news section so feel free to say hi and let us know any thoughts or ideas you may have!
So, another week closer! As I write this the 'ticker' tells me it's 2 months, 3 weeks and 3 days till the Britballrun!! I can't wait!
All the best,
Natalya
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
Weekly Update 2: 25th May 2007
The ticker's telling us that today is exactly 3 months till the BritBallRun! Nervous? Actually yes, I am! I'm pretty sure Andrew is taking the one and only job he has in his stride, I however, am struggling to find a piece of paper large enough for my own list of jobs over the 3 days!!
In all seriousness, I am very excited about what the coming 3 months and beyond have in store for us. I have a few little surprises that not even Andrew is aware of but, all will be revealed in August!
Here' a run down of just some of the things going on right now...
Last, but by no means least, our total to date is standing at a fantastic £3,065! Thanks to everyone for their support, it really means a lot to us!
All the best,
Natalya
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
In all seriousness, I am very excited about what the coming 3 months and beyond have in store for us. I have a few little surprises that not even Andrew is aware of but, all will be revealed in August!
Here' a run down of just some of the things going on right now...
- I am currently working on sponsorship for the car and organising the outfits.
- We are looking in to getting GPS tracking for the event and ways of relaying it to an online map so that you will all be able to follow our progress from the website over the 3 days.
- For the time being comments have been enabled on each post here in the lastest news section. It would be great if when you read this post you left a message to us and let us know any thoughts, ideas or words of support you may have for us! The comments have been enabled temporarily and we'll see how things go over the next few weeks before making a decision about whether to leave them switched on permanently or not!
- We are in the process of planning a 'Spot the SMARTies' competition which will run over the 3 day event in August. I'm sure most of you can guess what this might entail?! If not you'll have to wait for further announcements over the coming weeks.
Last, but by no means least, our total to date is standing at a fantastic £3,065! Thanks to everyone for their support, it really means a lot to us!
All the best,
Natalya
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
Donate at www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill
Clatterbridge Newsletter
Today we received a copy of the Clatterbridge Cancer Campaign spring newsletter. We knew there was going to be a piece on Team SMARTies and were excited to see what had been written!
The first image is the front page of the newsletter...
And the second image is a close up of the article on our fundraising efforts, unfortunately the image on the newsletter hasn't come out very well in my photo, sorry! Hopefully you will be able to read the important bits though! If you have any problems just email us and we'll send you a larger version!
All the best,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
The first image is the front page of the newsletter...
And the second image is a close up of the article on our fundraising efforts, unfortunately the image on the newsletter hasn't come out very well in my photo, sorry! Hopefully you will be able to read the important bits though! If you have any problems just email us and we'll send you a larger version!Click on image to enlarge
All the best,
Natalya and Andrew
Team SMARTies
Email: fundraising@rosemcgill.co.uk
Website: www.rosemcgill.co.uk
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