Back in February after all the tax returns had been submitted (well, almost all of them) a member of the tax team, although I still had work to do (contrary to popular belief that the tax team sit with there feet up for 11 months of the year and only work in January) I managed to squeeze some time in and come up with a simple yet brilliant fundraising ideas, which was to feel a jar full of mini Easter eggs and charge people a pound to guess with the closest winning all the Easter eggs.
I thought if we contacted chocolate companies they would be generous and donate a free pack here and there, which would lead us to filling a giant jar and help us with raising extra funds for the charity. However it appears that the chocolate companies are too driven by profits and making the next generation of British children clinically obese to help with our worthy cause. One company (I wont mention any names but I am sure you will be able to guess with a little thought) wrote back saying they only work with charities that help seahorses were therefore unable to help people in the UK with spinal injuries. Anyway now that I have ranted and let my frustration out, back to the task in hand. The weekend before Easter Deniz and I went shopping for mini chocolate eggs and a jar big enough to hold them. We purchased approximately 2.4kg worth of chocolate eggs (minus a few handfuls that Deniz and I ate :-D). We then decorated the jar to look like the Easter bunny (check out the picture on the right).
After Deniz and I had counted the eggs in a top secret location in London we began selling the idea to friends and family and by Sunday night had managed to raise enough money to recover our initial costs and actually started raising money for charity.
On Monday Adam started flogging the idea at work, then it was my turn on Tuesday and Danny’s on Wednesday. On Thursday, Danny & I decided to try and double team everyone with the hard sale. As the only team member that knew the actual amount in the jar the person with the closest guess at the end of each day changed more often than the British weather. On deadline day, 5mins before the results were to be announced, Deniz had one final sweep of the office as nobody still had the correct answer. Up steps Mr Andrew Wheeler with a last gasp entry just as the results were to be announced with a guess of 453 making him one out from the total of 454, stealing the eggs from under the nose of Muiz with now the second closest guess of 456.
Congratulations to Andrew. See picture on the right of Andrew holding the eggs like he just won the Copa del Rey (thank god Sergio Ramos didn’t win otherwise we would have been picking up the eggs off the floor). See next picture on the right where Andrew seems to be slightly over excited at the prospect of winning the eggs (get a room).
There were side bets going on to see how many eggs Andrew would be able to eat in one sitting before he was sick , however rumour has it he wasn’t sick as he warmed up with 4 KING size Easter eggs and washed the mini eggs down with a glass of pure melted chocolate!
Thanks to everyone who got involved and helped us raise £136 for charity. Our total so far is over £4000, we have almost guaranteed 3 team members seats on the boat.
Look out for future fundraising events coming to an office near you!!!
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