Choosing a Charity

One of my tasks requires me to raise a substantial amount of money for charity.  Didnt realise how hard it would be to actually pick a charity.  There are so many out there and I wish I could help all of them.

 I have decided that I want the charity to be a local one as the money will make more of a difference to them than a larger organisation.

At the moment I think that I have decided to choose the Essex Air Ambulance.

Now that I have chose the charity that I want to donate the money to I have started brain storming what I can do to raise the minimum £3,000 that I want to give to them by the time the 1001 days are up.

At the moment I have 4 ideas at the moment.  Hopefully all of them will pan out!


1. Host a bake sale - this should be easy enough (she says).  Bake some cupcakes, brownies, caramel short bread etc and then take them to work to sell. Let friends know so they can get some if they want.

2. Have another quiz night - this would be similar to the one that I held before for my mum.

3. 5' a side football tornament - this is where I am starting to struggle.  Although there are many people willing to help so I dont think it would be to much of a mountain

4. Sponsership - for running the Brentwood half marathon (not definate yet)

Any other ideas I would be more than happy to hear because I dont think that this will be enough. Also on other news does anyone know where any where that would let me use 8 5 a-side football pitches for the football tornament.