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Thank you from TheGivingMachine

An update for TheGivingMachine - Be The Key

Feb 20 2017

Last year, you kindly backed TheGivingMachine's fundraising project on Fundsurfer.  The money we raised contributed towards the development and launch of our mobile app for iPhone and iPad.  

Over £9.4m in goods and services were purchased via TheGivingMachine in 2016 - this generated over £200k in free donations to support schools, charities and other community organisations over the UK.  Our app only started rolling out in April 2016 but is already contributing almost 8% of donations generated.

We have an exciting year planned for 2017 and hope to secure additional explansion funding to help roll out an Android app as well.

Thanks for joining us on our journey to convert even more spending into good deeds,

Richard

Your ideas and suggestions

An update for Outdoor Cinema in Teignmouth

Feb 13 2017

I just wanted to say thank you for backing the Teignmouth Outdoor Cinema Project. I cannot thank you enough for your help and support it really does mean a lot.

We have been getting a lot of media attention and people think this is a great idea but we need to convert interest into pledges.

We have 70 backers which is fantastic but we have only 27 days left to meet our target to get other people to make a pledge.

If you have any ideas to suggestions on how to get more people to pledge, please do not hesitate to e-mail your ideas.

Regards

Paul

Book Your Visit

An update for Bristol's First Cat Cafe

Feb 10 2017

Dear Supporters,

As promised here is our booking system LIVE for you all.

Book your visit here at www.bookeo.com/youandmeow

Good luck with your booking.

Ewa

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Crowdfund Extension Date

An update for Outdoor Cinema in Teignmouth

Feb 10 2017

Good Evening

We have been contacted by lots of people who did not relise that the only way to get tickets for the outdoor cinema was to make a pledge ... some thought that we would sell tickets at Bitton House and the Pavillions etc

In response to this we have by, popular demand, as they say extended the date of the crowdfund to end of March in order to get the remaining £2k required and ensure that no one misses out on tickets.

If you have any questions regarding this please e-mail me or call  01626 775700

Regards

Paul

Get ready - booking system is going LIVE tomorrow.

An update for Bristol's First Cat Cafe

Feb 9 2017

Dear Supporters,

As most of you follow us on Facebook and know the recent news, our Official Opening is happening on 25th of February.

Our booking system is going Live on 11th at 10 pm.

However...

You have been the first who have contributed towards our project and believed in us to bring this project to life. For this reason and as a thank you from my side I will open the booking system exclusively for all of you 24 hrs before announcing it to the public.

The booking system will be shared here via Fundsurfer at 10 pm tomorrow (10th of Feb), so please watch your email box.

We got over 800 people waiting to book, so please be aware that who books first comes first. But hopefully with this advantage of having access to booking system 24hrs before, you will be able to book very first days.

Regarding an Opening date and it's booking - I will be sending separate email tomorrow to each of you who have purchased Grand Opening Date as also Behind The Scenes with further details how to book as it will be a different process of booking a slot for that day. So please watch for your email tomorrow at 10 pm too!

Ewa

1 Day to go- and good news

An update for Outdoor Cinema in Teignmouth

Feb 9 2017

Just 1 day to go and things are looking good 

We have £4000 and an off line pledge we have will go live to day

A very big thanks for your help... we will have some god news latter !

We just need a few more people 

Regards

Paul

A touch of gold ..

An update for St George's Bristol Crowdfund

Feb 8 2017

Many congratulations to our first two Golden Ticket winners, Katie McConochie and Patrick Royston, whose names were drawn from a top hat of all eligible crowdfund backers as part of our new season launch reception at our Soloists of the OAE concert on January 20. We will be in contact by email regarding all outstanding rewards in the course of next week.  

A touch of gold also applies to a forthcoming announcment that our main project contractor, Midas, is about to start construction work on our new extension.. on February 20.

As well as the crowdfund about to reach its next milestone target of £50,000, a further £100,000 has been raised towards our overall capital appeal in the last two weeks. This includes a further major contribution to our matching fund, which enables a second phase of the crowdfund to go ahead with an increased match from the current 50% to 100% on every donation made. That means for a future donation of £100, this will secure a further £100 matched funding, which together with gift aid on the original donation makes for a total gift to our appeal of £225.  

Look out for further updates as we count down to this second phase launch to co-incide with the start of the building works, and please do continue to spread the word about our campaign, as we aim towards our next milestone target of £100,000. Remember that once we reach our final crowdfund appeal target of £200,000 we will have secured the remaining target for our overall Building a Sound Future appeal, so fully funding the new extension and transformation for all visitors to St George's Bristol. 

Thank you again for all your support. 

We've raised our target after an amazing weekend of Stories and Songs for Syrians!

An update for Stories and Songs for Syrians

Feb 7 2017

Dear friends and supporters of Stories and Songs for Syrians,

Thank you so much for your generous donation to our fundraising appeal for Hands Up Foundation's urgent humanitarian and medical support to Syrian victims of war.

Our Stories and Songs for Syrians event last weekend was a great success, with many participants asking us when we’ll run another!

Babel Babies founder Cate Hamilton got everyone singing and doing the actions to songs in French, English and Arabic, impressing the Syrians with her music group's own version of Arabic classic children's song Has Sasan and getting all the kids doing the animal actions to Emily Gravett's Monkey and Me, in Arabic as 'Ana wa qirdi'. 

Nadine Kaadan gave an animated reading of The Jasmine Sneeze in Arabic, with Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp reading the English version, followed by a tutorial on how to draw Haroun the sneezy Damascus street cat, and how to render emotions with his huge, expressive eyes. Many in the audience were deeply moved by her reading of Ghadan (Tomorrow) in Arabic with Ruth reading the unpublished English version, and there were countless requests about when it would be out in English. Watch this space! We finished the session with Nadine teaching the children how to draw a traditional Damascus house and the children creating a mural together celebrating the ancient heritage of the 'Jasmine City', which has been hung in the window of the Suffolk Anthology bookshop.

We were overwhelmed by the generosity of guests, bringing Haroun-shaped biscuits, falafel and baklava, and also by local cafe Baker & Graze, who donated a tray of delicious rose and pistachio donuts! Over the course of the weekend and at Monday's Babel Babies session we raised £400 for the Hands Up Foundation. All the buzz around the Stories and Songs events among friends and in the local paper, The Gloucestershire Echo, clearly boosted the visibility of this online appeal, and we exceeded our £2000 target with a fortnight still to go!

Please help us raise as much as we can for the Hands Up Foundation: this UK-based charity funds many humanitarian and development projects for displaced Syrians in refugee camps, including emergency relief to survive the harsh winter and a prosthetic limb clinic for Syrian victims of war.

We achieved our target of £2000 and have now raised our goal to £3000. Perhaps with your help and the support of your friends we can raise even more to help Syrian refugees to rebuild their lives.

Thank you! Shukran! شكرا

Ruth, Hanan and Nadine

Back to work but you can cheer everyone up!

An update for Outdoor Cinema in Teignmouth

Feb 6 2017

Hello

I hope you had a very good weekend… but its Monday so its back to work now

BUT  why not chat to your work colleagues and your boss to see if they would like to take advantage of these rewards designed to treat customers and staff?

Group Reward

12 tickets for use by YOUR customers, staff OR for a large group of friends. Aimed at large groups of friends and companies or organisations who want to treat their staff and customers

Corporate One Reward

25 tickets for use of YOUR customers and staff. Aimed at companies and organisations who want to treat their staff and customers or for a large group of friends

Corporate Two Reward

50 tickets for use of YOUR customers and staff PLUS Your organisations name on the big screen. Aimed at companies and organisations who want to treat their staff and customers with some promotion of your brand

The ONLY way to obtain tickets is to make a pledge by visiting  www.fundsurfer.com/outdoorcinema

Regards

Paul

We have now reached a very important funding

An update for Outdoor Cinema in Teignmouth

Feb 4 2017

We have now reached a very important funding level which means one of our main costs has been covered which, make this project a very realistic possibility!

However, some people (obviously, those who have not made a pledge) think that they will be able to get tickets on the night. THIS IS NOT THE CASE

The ONLY way to obtain tickets is to make a pledge by visiting  www.fundsurfer.com/outdoorcinema

If you could please can you kindly suggest to 5 of your friends that they make a small pledge that would make over 300 people who we can contact.

It would help enormously if you could forward this email 5 friends to ask them to join you on these special nights

Regards and a very big thanks

Paul

Proceeds will go to the Helen Foundation and the mayor’s charity fund (which will be to help local people