After many hours spend in Bangor library and pouring through the Directory of Grant Making Trusts I had approx. 100 names of trusts.
After further Internet research on each of these I have whittled it down to 35 who I am in with a chance of getting funding from. While PT recommended we sent at least 100, I think it is better to send a few good ones and save the stamps.
The letter has been written and now just comes addressing all 35 and posting them off.
Something that surprised me was the lack of funding in Northern Ireland. I found full lists of trusts for many different area's in England/Scotland/Wales but everywhere seemed to forget us! Seeing that most trusts are area specific this was quite a problem.
Strathearn's got Talent is still in the process of being agreed to by school (fingers crossed) and I really hope I am able to do it because a) it would be so much fun to organise and b) would help fundraising enormously.
I am also trying to organise bag packing but I can't do it in either Tesco's or Sainsburys, Iceland maybe? My friend going to Rwanda was at Iceland bag-packing on Christmas Eve and raised over £300, so if we got something like that it would be good!
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