catch up...

After the Halloween fundraiser night, I came up with the idea of hosting a Swap Shop event. This was well received and other members of the class soon came up with other suggestions on how we could make the event really big.
Claire came up with the idea of coupling the swap shop with a Christmas fair, where businesses could come and sell their goods for the fee of a table.
After a few meetings, we booked out the theatre, studio theatre and square cat for the 9th of December. Sadly this was the second date we decided on as the first date (a week previous to this) was double booked, but it meant that we had an extra week to plan the event, so it wasn't such a bad thing.
Collectively it was decided that Claire and I were to be the 'organisers' of the event, which means we have to delegate jobs and make sure everything is running smoothly, both before and on the night of the event.
The businesses that we have signed up to the event are:
Rock Your Billy
Sparkles
Terry
Emma
Be Gorgeous
Fair Child's
The Cake Hole

All together we have raised £96 for the Third Year Fund just from table sales alone. The Mayor has also agreed to come for a short while on the evening, and we are going to be getting publicity from the Scarborough Evening News and Yorkshire Coast Radio.

The admission charge on the evening is £2 and 50p for under 12s, and this includes a raffle ticket for all the adults.
We have also asked that each stall holder brings a raffle prize in addition to their table charge.

I have enjoyed organising the event so far, and have run into more problems that I thought, for example people not pulling their weight in the organisation of the event, but i have overcome this and learnt a lot about event planning and managing others.

Below is a copy of the poster which we are using to advertise the event: