Grants, Rabbits, Violins, Saxophones, Monopoly & Dartmoor Legends!! March so far.....

Spot the stripes - can you see what is hidden in part of the branding for the UK contingent?

Sophie's Unit 78 have revealed their name - Dartmoor Legends. This is good but obviously not as good as James' Unit 77 name will be! Hopefully this will be announced soon too. We also have another WSJ meet up in the diary at the end of the month to make up for the day missed due to the storms. A Monopoly Run in Exeter.... What's that - well to be honest we didn't know too but the blurb says......

“WHAT IS A MONOPOLY RUN?” Well, each unit (nine participants) will be given a map, game board and instructions and (post safety brief) will sent off on their adventure (on foot) around the city. There may not be time to go everywhere on the board, so patrols will have to use tactics to choose where to go based on a locations in game “value”.  The game will work best if every patrol (nine participants) has at least one mobile phone in order to take photographs but if this is not possible for some, that is absolutely fine as there should be someone in the patrol who has a phone (that said... as a standby we will have an offline option, so don’t worry)! 

We will also get our UK contingent neckers and get to spend the day with our unit patrols so we are really looking forward to it!

Meanwhile fundraising has been marching on, the March payment of £1100 was due, we had squirrelled away a large chunk of it but then received a grant for £200 from a local charity. We are so happy as firstly it means our grant letters weren't rubbish and it has given us such a massive boost. We sent a thankyou card immediately and posted the cheque on to scout HQ to be banked.

We were almost there, under £100 to go so Mum got her violin out but instead of playing it (thankfully) we sold it and then March payment was made with a little bit left over for the next £1100 payment in May.

Next we heard that 1st Bow Scout group are going to support us by making a donation from what they raise for the group from their Easter Rabbit trail in Crediton. Over the next few weeks ceramic rabbits are going to be designed, decorated and hidden in shop windows in Crediton High Street. People can then buy a trail sheet and go on a bunny hunt over the Easter holidays - how cool is that! Then the Bunnies will be auctioned off. More on this soon - we have to design a Korea bunny so watch this space! We really hope this goes well so that it raises lots of money for 1st Bow.

Sophie has had her birthday which put another chunk of money in the pot for May from grandparents, aunties and uncles, friends and godparents - thankyou people - you know who you are! 

Finally Dad has let us sell his tenor saxophone which has released it from the bottom of the wardrobe where it has lived for the last ten years. Hopefully with a bit more of a push we will be ready for the May payment and on the way to thinking about the August one too!