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car rie r a i si ng plen t y
of f und s a nd e ven
m ore fun !
Carrie is 8 years old and goes to Nether Robertland
Primary School in Stewarton. She has been working
very hard fundraising for Yorkhill Hospital and has
now raised an amazing £1,000!
On her JustGiving page Carrie wrote this to explain why she had
chosen Yorkhill:
I am doing this for Yorkhill because they help so many people.
They looked after me when I was very sick with tonsillitis
and needed my tonsils taken out. They have helped some of
my friends too when they've needed operations, needed to
see doctors over and over again and special care that they
couldn't get from other hospitals or doctors.
When she started fundraising she wrote to Princess Kate, Provost Jim
Todd and Team Scotland to tell them she was going to do the Great
Scottish Family Mile. Not only did she get a reply from Princess Kate
but Provost Todd decided to surprise her at her school as well. In
addition to being sponsored for her run she sold raffle tickets at our
local Sainsburys raising a further £350.
Stewarton United and
TY Treks dog walkers
have also been supporting
Carrie through Facebook
and sharing all her posts
and achievements.
Nether Robertland School
have also very kindly
agreed to donate their Christmas Service Collection to Yorkhill in
recognition of Carrie’s fundraising.
She went to Yorkhill to present a cheque for £1010.20 on 9th October
and told them she would be back soon with more
money from the Bounceathon.
The Bounceathon for Yorkhill was held on 8th
November. They had a great turnout of people
coming along to help achieve 1000 bounces an
hour for 6 hours! Instead of getting sponsorship,
people were asked to make a donation to Yorkhill
on the day. As well as the trampolines, there were
stalls with home baking, loom bands, name the
bear, guess the number of sweets, a hula hoop and a
keepy-uppy competition.
By the day of the run, she had raised £800. She had decided she
would like to reach £1,000 for Yorkhill by the end of the year and
came up with the idea of doing a Bounceathon. She spoke to her
trampoline coach, Gemma, who kindly volunteered to help Carrie do a
Bounceathon at Stewarton Sports Centre to raise money for Yorkhill.
Two days after the run her total had risen to £840 and then she had
a surprise phone call from The Cobble Shop in Stewarton who have
given Carrie £160 to make her total up to £1000! They have been
supporting Carrie all the way using Facebook and were so impressed
with her hard work.
Carrie intends on continuing her fundraising next
year and her family have set up a page on Facebook
called Carrie’s Challenge. Not only is Carrie going
to do something every month but she is hoping
she can persuade other people to join in too raising
money for Yorkhill. Carrie wants to try and get other people involved as
well as there's only so many times she can ask people to sponsor her.
Her Facebook page is: www.facebook.com/carriescharitychallenge
Carrie is continuing her challenge with a 3km fun run in Hyde Park
on New Year’s Day while visiting family in London. She will be asking
people to use their New Year resolutions as fundraising opportunities.
The Review will be keeping in touch with Carrie so look out for future
events to get involved in!
Clare has set up a Just Giving Team page to which she can add anybody
who’d like to be part of Team Fun-Raiser and raise money for Yorkhill.
The website address is: www.justgiving.com/teams/teamfunraiser