Money for the Charity

After we have chosen our groups we had to come up with a creative idea and work with one of the local charity to raise money by showing our skills and qualities.

To raise money for the charity, we undertook following events:

1. Organised and set up our own stalls consisting of various activities fair at St. Peters secondary school.

2. Raffle competition for a large ‘Teddy bear' worth over £150.00.

3. Also Football ‘kick up' competition

Our trip to St Peters was not as good as our other two ideas but it did give us a chance to see what others thought of our ideas and had allot of different people involved in the activities, as allot of people took part in our games console competition which was played on various consoles including PS3, Xbox 360. We also had karaoke competition between the students but not many people took part in this, which was something we were surprised about as we expected nearly everyone to take part in this competition and main reason why we targeted that age group where people love dancing and singing.

One of our other idea was to give gift basket full of confectionary etc, but again that was something people were not interested in and had few comments about our ideas, as we thought our idea was not successful as we thought it will be we decided to do our next task as soon as possible so we have enough time to undertake another idea if rest of our ideas did not go to plan.

Raffle competition for the teddy bear was a success for us as allot of people took part in this, where we offered £1 for a raffle ticket and somebody wins a teddy bear worth £149.00, for this task we travelled to Walsall campus and spent few hours and then rest of the day at main city campus, after selling 80 to 90 raffle ticket we put the raffles into a hat and asked a random student to pull one ticket out and we had our winner who studies social policy from the main campus.

We also did kick up competition where most of the students from city campus took part and donated towards the charity, this competition was something different and easy for the group to organise, we had few people who showed us their skills and helped us to attract more people and get them to compete by setting higher and higher record for kick ups and asked other to beat the record where people gave money towards charity and had loads of turns to beat the record. And the prizes for these were:

1st Prize: A drive on a supercar

2nd Prize: Training session with a Brazilian squad.

As this was for charity our winner from this competition did not take the price and asked to put the money towards charity that we were meant to spend towards the prizes, but the supercar drive was offered by one of the group members friend who we asked to help us by letting us use the car as a test drive for our winner.

Brainstorming

We brainstormed all our ideas and picket out the best few where we aimed to spend less money as possible and make much as we can for the charity, by brainstorming we had allot of advantages as everyone put all their ideas down and we tried to choose one idea from each person then break them down and chose the best three which involved very little cost and something we can handle as well.

How we chose your group

As we started this lesson we were asked to do few tests in the class as a group, where we were put into random groups and we compared our ideas to see how different and how similar we are to each other by comparing our results with each other and one of the main exercise we