Sophia-Kilimanjournal

Almost two weeks since I started my blog and, although confined to my house because of whooping cough, thanks to the generosity of a number of people I’ve been able to start fundraising – even if I haven’t begun training yet!

The first fundraising event that took place was the sale of my Mum’s delicious curry puffs to family and friends. We were able to sell 240 of these at £10 for 20 – meaning my mum was in the kitchen all weekend, but this was worth it for the £120 that was raised!

A surprise donation came last night after my Auntie’s Jamie at Home party, from Elizabeth, the consultant, who, after hearing about our challenge kindly offered to donate 10% of the sales raised on the night to my chosen charity! This meant that after everyone had had a good spend I was given £35 for Rays of Sunshine!

If you would like to host a Jamie at Home party get in touch with me and I’ll pass your details onto Elizabeth! Alternatively if you’d like to come to my Mum’s Jamie at Home party on the 11 November, or if you can’t make it but would like to look at the catalogue just let me know. Anything you can do to help me reach my target of £3,000 for Rays of Sunshine will be FANTASTIC! My cousin Chloe lives in Birmingham so can’t make it to the party, but she and her friends have given mum  their orders from the catalogue…the more orders we get the better because mum is donating all the commission she would have earned from sales to Rays of Sunshine.

A lot of family and friends have also been kind enough to give me early sponsorship for the climb as well – (Thank you Nan and Granddad, Mum and Dad, Auntie Trish and Uncle Phil, Chloe and John Sheron!) – Your generosity equals £471.30. I’m really grateful, thank you so much!

Wow! This gives me with the grand total so far of… £626.30

Thank you everyone who has been generous enough to sponsor me so far! If you haven’t yet and would like to… or would like to sponsor me again (!) please visit http://thekiliklimbers.weebly.com/sophia.html!

Training starts next week! (I hope…)

About me

The baby of the group; when I agreed to climb Kilimanjaro I was caught up in the excitement of Zaida’s ‘random’ suggestion! 

I was working in London through the summer which is where I met Rebecca, Lucy and Zaida. Not believing the climb would ever go ahead…I have now passed the point of no return!

For those of you who know me, you’ll know of my hatred of spiders, snakes and any crawling or flying insect, as well as my lack of experience of sleeping in a tent outside (not even in my own back garden have I been able to do this)! Add to this my inability to go anywhere without my make up, nail varnish, hair dryer or GHDs and you’ll see what a challenge this is going to be! 

But I’m up for the challenge! I know I’ll gain a lot from this adventure and with your help I’m hoping to give a lot back.  I am supporting a children’s charity, I suppose because I’m not much more than one myself…but I’m lucky enough to have my whole life ahead of me…

My charity

https://www.raysofsunshine.org.uk/

Rays of Sunshine was set up in 2004 to help children between the ages of 3 and 18 who are living with serious or life limiting illnesses by granting their wishes, however impossible the wish may seem.  

Imagine a child…terminally ill…wanting more than anything to have a giant teddy bear named after her care nurse…imagine you making this little girl’s dream come true.

With your donation you can turn wishes into happy memories…please make a donation today. 

Our website to read all about the challenge and to make a donation is http:thekiliklimbers.weebly.com

Thank you so much for your support…and keep in touch…follow my blog on facebook or at Sophia-kilimanjournal.tumblr.com…Oh! And feel free to let your friends know…all donations are welcome and will be very gratefully received.