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Group Meeting - March

 On Sunday, March the 22nd, the Cumbria Rungwe Community Link gathered for yet another productive group meeting. Students took part in team building activities, such as speaking to one another in Swahili. Afterwards, we spent some time developing our journalistic skills, which will help in allowing us to promote ourselves, in social media and in the local news. We then split off into groups, where we explored the benefits and potential issues while hosting our visitors from Tanzania. The group are all looking forward to the arrival of the exchange students, even though our Swahili needs some work.

Luke 

ASDA bag pack!

On Saturday the 21st of March, we hosted a bag packing event at Asda Workington as another part of our fundraising. We spilt the day into two halves but some people volunteered to participate for the full day. This was from 10am to 4pm! This was a great day to talk to lots of people and let them know what we do, the benefits of doing it and why we all take part. Overall the day was a huge success as we were able to raise a total of £766.41!

Jack

WLA Numeracy Event Cale Sale

On Thursday the 22nd January a parent/student numeracy event was being held at Westlakes academy. We hadn't started any fundraising for the link within school yet, and we thought it would be a good opportunity to sell cakes at the entrance to the people walking in an out of the building for the numeracy event. We built up a force of 9 cake-loving girls and organised a delicious cake stall and information board about the Cumbria Rungwe Community Link for the people passing by to read and learn from. Each cake cost just a donation and was brought in by students involved. It's fair to say, the turn-out wasn't as large as we had anticipated, there was a lot of waiting around between sales in the beginning, and the majority of those who did pass us seemed to be rushing to get to the event. We were in need of a solution to our situation, when somebody had the brilliant idea of going mobile with our little stall, we packed a tray full of delicious cake and ventured around the school looking for other people who were also enthusiastic about the charity (and of course the cake). It was a success! We sold cakes at a much faster pace than we had done all evening (especially the ever-faithful cake-lovers from the English department). With more optimistic spirits the night eventually came to a close, there was still quite a bit of cake left, so we packaged it all up and waited for the next school day to come around. At break time on Friday the 23rd we resumed the mobile cake-stall technique and took to the sixth form common room to finish off our sale, it turns out teenagers and cake are a good mix (who would've thought?) and soon, with the word about the cake sale for the Tanzania link flooding around the sixth form centre, there were no more cakes left to sell! Our team of 9 had been successful and £72.70 was added to the funds for the inward visit this summer. Tip for all future cake sales: if all else fails, go mobile!

Emily A

Christmas Quiz at St Bees

On 28th November 2014, we held a Christmas quiz at St Bees School in order to raise money. We sold tickets for family and all ages a couple of weeks before and there was a bar and snacks on the night. As well as this, we had a raffle and many people very kindly donated lots of gifts. The quiz was a great success and it was enjoyed by everyone. 

As well as this, on 3rd November 2014, we held a fireworks night at St Bees School. Lots of families came along in order to support the Tanzania Link. We sold food, drinks, cakes and we had small competitions for children. Also, we sold glow sticks which went down well with the kids. Then, the night ended with a firework show which everyone enjoyed. 

Finally, we have held two cake sales at St Bees School also to raise more money. We has one cake sale for a week in October 2014, and also a cake sale for a week in January 2015 which began on Monday 19th January. Many people kindly donated cakes for us to sell and we also sold cans of soft drinks. We sold the cakes at break time and all the students and teachers enjoyed the cakes and lots of money was made. 

Abbey C

Valentine's Card Fundraiser ❤️😍

Whilst brainstorming ideas to help fundraise for the Cumbria-Rungwe Link, me and Beth realised that Valentine's Day was coming up and it would be a perfect opportunity to do something seasonal to raise money. We knew straight away that we wanted to hand-make something that we could sell, and since chocolates and roses were already being sold at our school (Westlakes Academy) we decided to design and make a handful of cards that were influenced by last years fundraising. We printed one of each card as a sample and set up a 'stall' kind of table in the school to advertise and take orders for the cards which were 50p each. The cards proved extremely popular, and Emily and Sarah wanted to get involved as soon as they saw we were selling them, which helped us because the cards were a lot of work and took up a lot of time to hand write, colour in and add glitter to, not to mention tallying each design, printing and collecting money from people who purchased them. We hand delivered all cards on the last day of term and eventually raised £35.

Emily Ward

January SASRA

Everyone made lovely cakes to sell at the Sasra all different varieties, and hot chocolate, tea and coffees were also prepared to sell. At half time when the music had finished we served the drinks and the cakes asking for a donations for the cakes which was great because the audience was keen donators and then we washed and packed up together as a group. 

In total we raised £75.65.

Sophie F