FUNdraising (See what I did there, oh no...)

Hi one and all,
Thought I should post a recap of what we discussed during the meeting on Thursday.

- For New Designers we have set a base target for raising £100 for each person going to ND, hopefully it will be more, but this is just a figure to use to set some targets.

- So we have decided upon a date and venue for our FIRST EVER SURE TO BE SPECTACULAR TEXTILE MIXER NIGHT on Wednesday, October 13th at Drouthies, we'll smooth out details in next week's meeting regarding this. In the meantime, Lorri is collecting £2 for a 'business investment', which translates as money for the deposit at Drouthies and to purchase supplies for making things.

- We have avoided the idea of using the union as a fundraising tool instead utilizing our handy nature and with Lora's suggestion shall proceed to make some goods for a Christmas sale (or perhaps sooner?)

- Carrie has kindly looked into costs for Christmas cards, and currently they stand at 13p for card, 4.5p for envelopes and 25p for badge backs and £3 for chain for necklaces. Also for the potential of doing a valentines fundraiser Carrie also acquired the info from her lovely librarian that for 100 roses it's £14.

-There have been loads of great suggestions for things to do, most notably in my mind, Debbie's idea for scarves, Cathrine's tote bags and Sarah's calendar idea.

-Ashleigh is looking into the costs of printing, either for a class catalog (yearbook!?) or perhaps the calendar.

- We have lots of fantastic ideas and at the moment they are all floating about so this weekend I'll make up some suggestion boxes for fundraising and for general suggestions (even though my boxes certainly won't be as lurrrrvly as the one last year!)

SO FOR NEXT WEEK'S MEETING WHICH WILL HOPEFULLY BE AT THE SAME TIME IN ROOM 400 BRING BITS YOU HAVE LYING ABOUT SUCH AS: BUTTONS, BEADS, SCRAPS OF FABRIC, RIBBONS, FELT, WHATEVER (in andy's words) and SOME SEWING/GLUING/ADHESIVE SUPPLIES.

Great start ladies and let's make our year a year of textiles that NAEBODY WILL FORGET!
xo