Time for a Team Servants ’15 update

I think we are now 87 sleeps away from the event. The 300 t-shirts are on order. The Team tent for the day has been booked. 7 people to date have created fundraising pages – not a massive number at this stage but 7 more than this stage last year. Donations are trickling in. The first $100 donation arrived today. Being one of the ‘Special 35’ charities is clearly going to more than pay for itself based on the number of enquiries about our Team this has already created – inxs of 30 at this point. The trick here is to turn enquiries into fundraising pages. I recently spoke to a Captains of APS meeting re our Team and all these schools are going to support us in some way. Of all the schools who will be involved Scotch have been making the most noise to date – closely followed by Trinity and Strathcona. 2 local Rotary Clubs are heavily on board with RC North Balwyn not surprisingly leading the way. Connie and I are trying to make inroads into the local state high schools too – there is some success to talk of here with Balwyn High and MGC keen. A recycled brown paper bag style has been chosen for the show bags we are hoping to distribute on the day, 1500 max, and I am sourcing quotes for printing at the present time – a donor has generously offered to pay for all bags and printing. In total the event has 5000 people registered to run – they are expecting 30,000. If somehow we could have 300 people running for us on the day this would represent 1% of the field – this would doubtlessly create quite a splash. There will be significant efforts made to encourage as many resos as possible to participate. All in all, so far so good. There is still much to do as the event gets closer but I am as confident as I can be that we are nicely on track to bring in significant funds alongside gaining further exposure.

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