Decisions...decisions!

With all the doom and gloom in the news...with contacts being made redundant......Woollies possible going into receivership.... the PANTS girls have thought long and hard about the date of the next fundrasing event and have decided to change the date to April 18th, 2009! By this time we hope that our supporters will be feeling a bit more confident about the future, spring will be in the air and people will be ready for a really good night out!
See you there!

Final Figure Raised at the Auction

Here are our trusty bankers keeping track of the finances on the night and collecting the cash. The total raised on the evening has now been totalled up and comes to a brilliant £5,630.51!! Well done to us and all our friends and family who helped us reach this amazing total.

Watch out for news of the Charity Ball, our next event, on 7th February 2009!

Promises Auction November 08

Well we did it - this is the four of us at end of a long day and evening! Over 50 lots and nearly £6,000 raised which means we've almost certainly hit our minimum target of £3,000 each - £12,000 total - which is fantastic in only 6 months. Lots of thanks to our friends, family and supporters who made the evening so special with particular thanks to our two auctioneers Tony and David. They were incredible!

Stand by for three more big events in 2009 and more!! £20,000 here we come. The PANTS girls - Karen, Alison, Helen and Fiona

Sally, Karen's Mum, celebrated a "special"

birthday recently and asked friends and

family to donate to PANTS instead of presents.

They did and donated over £670.00 which was

fantastic !





Many thanks to all who donated from Sally, PANTS, the Parkinson's Disease Society and

the Alzheimer's Society.

PANTS STAR AT EDINBURGH FRINGE!

Although not billed in the Fringe programme, PANTS took a star turn in Edinburgh this year. Paul Merton, Johnny Vegas, Christopher Biggins were amongst some of the stars who signed some PANTS! I'm not really sure they knew why they were signing Pants but they were happy to help! These valuable items will be available at our Promises Auction on November 15th!

PANTS abroad

Here's me on holiday in Greece at a 'P' themed party. With limited time and certainly no budgets spare sheets were used to make PANTS and I took the opportunity again to plug our charity venture!

Alison

PANTS shy get second popular airing!

Recent party held for our local Parkinson's Society friends at Helen and Paul's pad saw the second successful playing of our very own spin on the coconut shy!

Now a regular feature of all our events these pants have never been so popular (or profitable!)

Here we all are on Fete Day, a bit tired but very happy after helping village friends and family play on our PANTS shy, guess how many PANTS were in the jar and sign up a few supporters who had pledged a promises our Promises Auction to be held on 15th November

The four of us had great fun at our village fete last week. A novel take on the coconut shy saw keen villagers supporting us by throwing soft balls into pants trying to reach the pants with the points in an endeavour to hit the highest score! It was harder than it looked!

Our pants theme knew no bounds with pants bunting (sensible sort with logos as well as bunting made with 'comedy' pants from the market) as well as a very large and visible panty line marking the point at which participants stood!

We were so busy on the day we couldn't organise photos but the sun shone and we took over £150 not just on the Pants Shy but also on the 'guess the number of pants in the jar' competition.

Although there's clearly a serious side to our efforts, it's clear that the pants theme certainly attracts attention.

More news from PANTS soon as we build up to our Promises Auction on November 15th, also in Houghton.

Our Charity Challenge and how it works

Following our article in June’s Houghton and Wyton Parish Magazine and the great feedback we received from our stand at Houghton and Wyton Feast Week we would like to try and explain how our charity challenge works……

National charities raise significant funds from ‘event’ fundraising, usually organised treks, walks or bike rides – these are physical challenges. Everyone who takes part in these has to raise a minimum sponsorship of £3k, plus personally paying a registration fee. The sponsorship raised covers the remainder of the cost of the trip but more importantly raises money that the charity would not have received otherwise. In the case of PANTS we decided we wanted to undertake work for an African community rather than a physical challenge, so we’re donating our time and ‘skills’ to help build a school in Namibia, which we can only do through raising money for our nominated charities, the Parkinson’s Disease Society and the Alzheimer’s Society.