{"id":520,"date":"2008-11-20T04:30:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T04:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=520"},"modified":"2008-11-19T15:41:21","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T15:41:21","slug":"fundraising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:499,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.sainsburys.co.uk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:114,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.asda.co.uk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190106021134\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.asda.co.uk\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 09:27:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 05:39:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 05:39:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"157\" alt=\"Pound\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/pound.png\" width=\"158\" border=\"0\"> One of the joys of being in a volunteer organisation is that we have to raise our own funds, we don&#8217;t just get money thrown at us. Our Group doesn&#8217;t own its own buildings so we are not constantly having to raise money to pay for its upkeep. Having your own buildings are both a blessing and a curse as you have the flexibility of having the full use of the building whenever the Group wants, but they are a tremendous financial burden. The same applies to mini buses. We&#8217;ve had three at various times in the past and very useful they were too, but we didn&#8217;t use them often enough to justify them and we didn&#8217;t have a secure place to keep them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">But no matter what you own, you have to have a healthy bank balance to ensure that the Beavers, Cubs and Scouts have all the equipment they need.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">This year we&#8217;ve been offered the opportunity to do some bag packing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sainsburys.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Sainsbury&#8217;s<\/a> the weekend before Christmas. Now personally, I HATE bag packing. This has a lot to do with the 13 years I spent working for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asda.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Asda<\/a> and the fact I spent my 30th birthday doing it on my day off! However, putting my personal grumbles aside, we cannot pass up this opportunity to fund raise in this way as I&#8217;m guessing that we will be able to make around \u00a31500 or more over the two days! If this guess is correct then we won&#8217;t need to do any more fundraising in the coming year unless we come up with idea that&#8217;s going to cost a lot!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">So that weekend will see me bag packing and hopefully collecting loads of cash for the Group, not my favourite way of spending a weekend, but the outcome will be worthwhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the joys of being in a volunteer organisation is that we have to raise our own funds, we don&#8217;t just get money thrown at us. Our Group doesn&#8217;t own its own buildings so we are not constantly having to raise money to pay for its upkeep. Having your own buildings are both a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=520\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fundraising&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouts","tag-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-8o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}