Happy New Year to everyone and we hope everyone has a very happy and prosperous 2013.
I started a new job in September at Reckitt Benckiser in Slough, very different from my old job building TV broadcast facilities but back to my roots in FMCG.
SO ... if you are in London and want to support us please let me know and I will give you RRP £30 worth of Vanish, Finish and Durex for a £20 donation. I will even deliver. You get something in return for you donation and we all win.
With our fundraising minimum at $7500 and some real fears that we wouldn't be able to make it, I inquired about the companies sponsorship matching scheme. I was surprised to find that not only that company has a generous scheme but also that sexual health charities are looked upon favorably due to the fact that the company owns Durex.
On December 1st, World Aids Day, the company flyer'd all the desks with the 1-4-1 safe sex campaign leaflets and Red Ribbons so, ever the opportunist, I contacted Corporate Comms and asked if, given the Bike Rally is an HIV/Aids charity event, I could e-mail some colleagues appealing for support.
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| Teri and Sandra |
Not only did they agree that I could e-mail I also got a visit from Sandra and Teri from Corporate Comms who were touched by the e-mail and on behalf of RB made a donation. My boss also promised that there would more opportunities for me to fund raise. How heartening is that? With the the help of RB and my new colleagues we are at 40% of our minimum which is superb. I can't express how pleased and grateful I was to Sandra and Teri.
Also RB has regular staff sales where I can buy RB Products. All the money raised in the staff sales go to the company charity, Save the Children. We are fortunate that we can buy a fair amount and I am happy to pass on the (limited amount of) products that I have bought in return for a donation to our Friends for Life Bike Rally page. That way the products bought doubles-up in helping charities. Again thanks to RB for letting me do this.
SO ... if you are in London and want to support us please let me know and I will give you RRP £30 worth of Vanish, Finish and Durex for a £20 donation. I will even deliver. You get something in return for you donation and we all win.
Even Christmas was all about the Bike Rally
In prep for doing the ride the Grandparent's Christmas presents this year were bike bags and Christmas morning was spent building and testing the bike bags which will make life so much easier for us compared to the cardboard boxes we used last year.
I would like to introduce a young man who is the boyfriend of my eldest son son Richard.
His name is David and he has been going out with Richard for over a year. His family are from Columbia and moved to Spain 7 years ago where he where he lives with his mother. They are not in any way an affluent family in a very financially depressed Spain.
By anyone's definition David is a "good" boy. He studies and also worked as a kitchen assistant in a bar since he was 15. He gives half his pay to his mother and the other half pays for his studies. He rarely has a weekend off.
Until very recently his mother had been in denial about him being gay and has never acknowledged Richard as being part of his life.
Things changed this year when David came to London for New Year to be with Richard. He saved and paid for his own flights, refusing my offer to pay by saying he must "pay for his own things". He rang his mother on New Years Eve and his mother, to everyones surprise, asked to speak to Richard. She wished him Happy New year and explained she just wanted David to be happy and asked Richard to look after him. Tears and Vodkas all round.
So here is the deal .......
I would like David to come to the bike rally so that we give an opportunity to a young man who deserves it and would benefit enormously from the experience. He will buy his own bike and I will pay for his flights but we need help on the sponsorship as raising sponsorship money in Spain at the moment is impossible.
Therefore I am asking:-
If you are a supporter, please sponsor us and repost this blog to your friends or
if you are a rider who is fortunate enough to get past your minimum, please help us by publicizing what it is we are trying to do or
If you are a top fund raiser and already have 2 or 3 or 5 or 10 gold jerseys, please divert some of your sponsors to help us get David over to Canada to experience the Bike Rally and get the HIV/Aids education that we hope to propagate among the younger members of our community.
One more young, HIV accepting, safe sex advocate has to be a big part of what the Bike Rally is all about!
We have raised our target to $10,000 and I have put a deposit on David's flight and we will make a call at the end of March on whether or not we think his sponsorship will be covered.
If you would like more info on trying to get David on the Rally then email me at DavidEmbleton@gmail.com or press the "Make a Donation" button above. Every little helps.
TTFN
David, Richard, Adam and hopefully David. xxxx
We can do a good deed but we need your help....
I would like to introduce a young man who is the boyfriend of my eldest son son Richard. His name is David and he has been going out with Richard for over a year. His family are from Columbia and moved to Spain 7 years ago where he where he lives with his mother. They are not in any way an affluent family in a very financially depressed Spain.
By anyone's definition David is a "good" boy. He studies and also worked as a kitchen assistant in a bar since he was 15. He gives half his pay to his mother and the other half pays for his studies. He rarely has a weekend off.
Until very recently his mother had been in denial about him being gay and has never acknowledged Richard as being part of his life.
Things changed this year when David came to London for New Year to be with Richard. He saved and paid for his own flights, refusing my offer to pay by saying he must "pay for his own things". He rang his mother on New Years Eve and his mother, to everyones surprise, asked to speak to Richard. She wished him Happy New year and explained she just wanted David to be happy and asked Richard to look after him. Tears and Vodkas all round.
So here is the deal .......
I would like David to come to the bike rally so that we give an opportunity to a young man who deserves it and would benefit enormously from the experience. He will buy his own bike and I will pay for his flights but we need help on the sponsorship as raising sponsorship money in Spain at the moment is impossible.
Therefore I am asking:-
If you are a supporter, please sponsor us and repost this blog to your friends or
if you are a rider who is fortunate enough to get past your minimum, please help us by publicizing what it is we are trying to do or
If you are a top fund raiser and already have 2 or 3 or 5 or 10 gold jerseys, please divert some of your sponsors to help us get David over to Canada to experience the Bike Rally and get the HIV/Aids education that we hope to propagate among the younger members of our community.
One more young, HIV accepting, safe sex advocate has to be a big part of what the Bike Rally is all about!
We have raised our target to $10,000 and I have put a deposit on David's flight and we will make a call at the end of March on whether or not we think his sponsorship will be covered.
If you would like more info on trying to get David on the Rally then email me at DavidEmbleton@gmail.com or press the "Make a Donation" button above. Every little helps.
TTFN
David, Richard, Adam and hopefully David. xxxx
