Fundraising is going really well!

I went to Peckforton Castle last night for their 5th year anniversary (my stepdad works for them). It was great to see such an excellent party held despite the chaos the Naylor's have endured this weekend with the great fire. All the best to them with that. It was also a brilliant night because I was given my T-shirts (shown in pic below). Thanks to Simon Hanna, General Manager at Peckforton, for arranging these to be made. They have my charities on them, and they're very stylish and comfortable. I'll be wearing them throughout the event (one per mountain if they get sweaty!). I just need to add my other sponsors logos onto them, but I'm very chuffed with them. The night also went very well because legendary footballer and sport pundit John Barnes, ex-Liverpool and England player who was also manager of the Jamaican football team was there as I believe he is a frequent visitor. I had brought a form with me, and whilst smiling with my new t-shirts on, I approached him and told him what he was doing and asked if he would sponsor me. He was a very friendly chap and I told him about my challenge and how I wanted to raise a lot of money for my two charities. As he's a sportsman I thought he may be interested- and he was. He very very kindly gave me a £50 note straight away after signing my form- fantastic! He wished me luck and asked for an update. He told me to focus on two things at my age- schoolwork and sport! A top bloke who's certainly changed my opinion of footballers. It was also good to meet the team at Peckforton who had sponsored me. I also made another £15 that night from the kind lady whose partner had designed my t-shirts and from Jean @ Beanies Taxi's who took us home! Thanks go to them too!

Thanks go to Jenny and Den Ware, friends of my parents, who aswell as letting me borrow their walkie talkies for the event- have sponsored me £60 online! Brilliant! £60 has been pledged by both of my grandparents too :) My new banner is also on it's way, the old one with the error on will be stuck to the back window of the minibus during the event.

So, so far I've collected £373.27 (not including the £75 online from Jenny and Den Ware). I still need to collect money from Barbara Wilkie (who has very kindly raised £50 for me!), the money pledged by my family and grandparents, the money from my various sponsorship forms in various locations of which I have no idea how much has been raised by them yet, the £100 from my sponsor Peckforton Castle as well as the chance of donations from the general public and a few people on my sponsor forms.

My stepdad's just transferred all my cash donations onto my fundraising page. So my confirmed total now is £447. I've totalled up and estimated how much I've got still to collect and I reckon I've raised £757 so far!

Thanks for all the support guys. You're all awesome and I really appreciate it. Sorry for the long posts. 2 weeks today we'll be driving down to Scotland! Getting nervous but very excited.