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Hello everyone!
 
I recently won the Vodafone World of Difference UK Competition and as a result Vodafone are sponsoring me to raise much needed funds for PASIC (for 8 WEEKS ONLY!!!!! ) Starting the 12th January 2010.
 
Vodafone have provided me with my own blog page on the Vodafone World of Difference Website which is now live!
 
My aim with your support is to raise £33,100 with the 8 week placement I have been sponsored for (WE HAVE LEFT THAN 3 WEEKS TO GO) My placement ends on the 12th March SO PLEASE SUPPORT IN ANY WAY THAT YOU CAN!
 
I have uplifted the content of my blog for those unable to access blog sites!
 
 
Vodafone Website Blog! :-)

Maria Tucker

A bit about me...

I was in floods of tears and jumping with joy. I am so looking forward to throwing all of my time into something that is worth every single second. I aim to raise £33,100 in the eight weeks I have by successfully completing a calendar of events and applying for grants!

Post | Bad Weather! Well I’m still smiling :-)

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 :-O Playing catch up in date order, because this week has been very busy! Plus I have added more events below and new collection points :-)  

Valantines Day/ Town Mill Mansfield!  

This was my first experience of a ceilidh! The fantastic people that came along, had a wonderful time and Odds and Sods were brilliant! I am now in serious need of another new camera, which will be purchased next week! So many apologies for the poor quality lighting and video but you will get the idea! Look out for the loud mouth so and so at the end! ME lol!

 

Morrisons at Mansfield Woodhouse: Store Collection

A massive thank you, to everyone who volunteered and donated at Mansfield Woodhouse + a big thank you for letting us collect at your store. The three day collection raised over 640.00… Thank you everyone!

 

Mansfield Town Football Club Collection

Saturday started initially :-) on a low note, due to the Mansfield Town Football Club Match being cancelled due to icy conditions. But the day was not all lost! :-) In-fact some of volunteers including myself ended up being recruited to take part in an advert for Kit Kat at the stags ground for the build up to the world cup this year!

So in a couple of months, you will see us all inside andoutside the ground collecting for PASIC :-) The chap did keep getting a bit too close with that camera though! Ahhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrr :-P

In between all of this I met Donna from the public bar at the stags ground, where I explained what my aim was and how difficult things are at the moment due to the time of year (financially) plus how the weather is currently hampering all of our efforts. 

Donna was fab! She popped off had a chat with her manager and on her return she offered me 3 family tickets worth £64 each + the opportunity to collect at the home matches in the bar + hold a monthly raffle. On top of this Donna confirmed that they would provide PASIC with a family ticket each month as a prize, over the next year! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

In regards to the match collection, this will resume once we have been informed of the rescheduled date, but I’m not holding my breath :-D after having 10 inches of snow land on planet Maria this morning!

What was funny, was that i thought I was doing the advert for the payment of a Kit Kat lol, so when I got handed £50, I headed straight to the local post office to buy some raffle tickets books :-D which will now be the next faze of my plan, if this snow goes away SOON!!

 

LOTS MORE NEW EVENTS!!!! :-) New events are in BOLD :-)

Run up to the 12th March :-O (Not long now)

26th Feb: Live Music Event/ Organised by The Punklets: Dundee Scotland

27th Feb – 5th March NJC Services Mansfield/ 149 Mountain Bike trek through the Scottish Mountains/ more details here! www.justgiving.com/nathanjon

27th Feb: Body & Soul FREE BOXASIZE SESSION IF YOU COLLECT SPONSORS FOR PASIC! Please get in touch if you would like to be involved in the boxathon! (VIEW THEIR PAGE)

Sat 28th Feb: Tracy Bond (Jacobs Mum) The reason I am doing all of this! lol Had to cancel her sponsored piano play, due to Jacob being ill. So she has now rescheduled her sponsored piano play for this Saturday! Please donate online @ www.justgiving.com/jacobsmum

Tues, 2nd March The Brown Cow in Mansfield, are holding a raffle on behalf of PASIC at the Mansfield Folk Club + there are collection tins in the bar, if you would like to make a donation to PASIC!

Wed 3rd March 2010 Tombola at the QMC Reception Area (VIEW QMC PAGE)

Friday 5th March: Market Tavern Sutton in Ashfield. Are having a Party Night!!!! & this is being arranged by liz and Phil with all of the local open mike crew, who will be bringing out the big PA lol, a lighting rig, live bands and musicians all to raise funds for PASIC! Liz has offered to donated £150 to PASIC on the night, plus she has been holding weekly tombolas and raffles which has already raised over £150, Liz will be continuing to hold raffles and tombola, plus this is a collection point for anyone wishing to shred their change and make a donation!

6th March: Sponsored Channel Swim (Relay) @ The Lenton Centre, Nottingham. Supported by Quackers Swim School.  We have now recruited Rebecca Adlington to come along on the day :-) (VIEW THEIR PAGE)

10th March 2010 Tombola at the QMC Reception Area (VIEW QMC PAGE)

11th March at the Cart and Horse Sutton in Ashfield! Roger and Debbie, will be holding a raffle on behalf of PASIC! The main prize will be a family of 4 tickets to go and see the stags play in 2010. The Cart and Horse is also a collection point, so if you have any spare change, then please pop in and make a donation!

12th March The Seven Stars in Hucknall. Live music event, to help raise funds for PASIC! There are collection tins in the bar, so please pop in and donate!

12th March: Town Mill Mansfield are holding a raffle to raise funds for PASIC!

 

All Of Our Collection Points!

The New Inn, Mansfield

The Town Mill, Mansfield!

The Brown Cow Mansfield!

The Cart and Horse Sutton in Ashfield

Station Road Post Office, Sutton in Ashfield

The Market Tavern Sutton in Ashfield

The Seven Stars, Hucknall

Nicks Chippy Chesterfield Road, Mansfield

Harrisons Garden Centre Shirebrook

Spar Shop, (sutton junction) Sutton in Ashfield

 

My best mate from School Rachael Faulkes, has kindly headed off with two collection tins and her mother in law is now baking PASIC a wonderful bear cake with balloons to raffle off on the last day! :-) Thank you Dorothy xx.

Volunteers

Thank you everyone who came along to the match collection, and those that were on their way, but found out the match had been cancelled prior to heading out! In total, we managed to raise the support of over 15 volunteers for the match collection, which was brilliant! Thank you everyone for wishing to give up your time for PASIC!

Also, as a result of my continual plea for support, a number of our volunteers are going to their schools on Monday or Tuesday {IF THEY ARE OPEN :-P } To find out if they could hold a non-uniform day! Thank you so much Zoe and James!!!

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13:02 on February 18th 2010

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Soundclick.com are sponsoring our bands and artists, who are supporting our eight weeks challenge for the whole year!!!!!

Soundclick.com are providing over 600.00 in services to the following artists:

10 o’ clock horses: http://www.soundclick.com/10oclockhorses

China Shop Bull: http://www.soundclick.com/chinashopbull

Tarantism: http://www.soundclick.com/tarantism

Damon Downs: http://www.soundclick.com/DamonDowns

Liam O’kane http://www.soundclick.com/liamokane

All funds raised from sales of tracks on each of these profiles will be donated to PASIC.

Main Members PAGE! http://members.soundclick.com/stanleyspider

Vodafone World of Difference UK Online Station Playlist http://members.soundclick.com/station/796302

 Please purchase a song and help raise funds for children with cancer, leukaemia or brain tumour!!!!! 

   SoundClick Stats!!! :-)  

3,721,162 songs
459,602 accepted bands
4,036,230 verified members

THANK YOU SOUNDCLICK.COM

If you want to promote our play list on your myspace please get in touch, or click the widget button and add these to your profile. Everytime the artists get a hit, they go up in the soundclick charts! THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!

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08:02 on February 18th 2010

Post | Where am I Today? :-)

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If you are anywhere near Mansfield Woodhouse today! I will be collecting at the new Morrisons in Mansfield Woodhouse today and tomorrow. I will be there from 9-11am and we  have some wonderful volunteers supporting PASIC for the rest of the day! So if you have any spare change, then please support children with cancer, leukaemia and brain tumour! Maria x.

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00:02 on February 18th 2010

Post | China Shop Bull!

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Cool! :-) I can’t help myself! Excellent Live Music!

THIS BAND ARE WICKED! JUST GOT THE VID! CHECK IT OUT!

CHINA SHOP BULL! TOWN MILL MANSFIELD :-)

One of the best weekends of live music I have ever had! :-) Brilliant Music and fantastic people!

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19:02 on February 17th 2010

Post | What my 8 year old little princess is doing for pasic :-)

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Please check out what my 8 year old little princess is doing for PASIC! xx

 

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08:02 on February 14th 2010

Post | Valantines Party Night Tonight!

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Tonight, we will be hosting a night of Irish dance at the Town Mill Mansfield, with live band, Odds and Sods :-) I’ve got my dancing shoes on!

 

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12:02 on February 13th 2010

Post | Please get the ball rolling! :-)

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OUR TARGET PAGE!!!

Our main just giving page can be found at the link below! So please help us reach our target! It’s an enoumous mountain to climb and we need to take as many small steps as possible to reach the top!! Maria x.

A Massive Thank you to:  

Steve Vernon

Sarah Spencer and Family

David Jack

Jim Mathews

Bea Brunton

 

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15:02 on February 11th 2010

Post | Gig Pictures!

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TOWN MILL MANSFIELD!

There has been so much happening, that keeping the blog upto date and doing this all quickly is proving tricky :-P Check out below some of the pictures from Friday, Saturday and Sunday Night’s Events at the Town Mill, Mansfield.

FRIDAY NIGHT!!!!

WAS PUNK NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Friday Night, presented a night of Mayhem at the Town Mill in Mansfield. Pictured left is everyone from the Underworld Shop on bridge Street! We also had the fantastic D.J Dan Underworld on the decks playing old school punk!! cheers guys! On the right, we have the fantastic Nerks, all the way from Brum.. Some might know Luke the singe from local band Riot Squad!  

 

Then we had the renowned old school punk band Resistance 77 and to the right Temporary Asylum, Cheers for the shower Kath!!! :-)

 

Meet the guys from Northern Lights and Sound, who set the lighting rig up for the whole of the weekend + James played our gig on Sunday night! ! Thank you SO MUCH for all of your hard work! To the left are the fantastic Apocalypse Babys! Thank you So Much!!!!

 

I aint got a clue as to everybody’s names lol :-) ! But we all had a fantastic night :-)

 

And finally local band A Multitude of Sins, finished off our night of mayhem off with a fantastic set! Thank you so much every one on the night! You were amazing!!!

 

Saturday Night!!!!!

WAS FESTIVAL NIGHT!!!!

 

Tarantism on the left have been headlining the festival scene for years! They have played Glastonbury and most of the UK’s best festivals, check out their gig listings! To the right is Georgie from the Dooberies, again a magnificent set, got the folks of Mansfield going crazy on the dance floor! :-)

Enlightning Strikes  

The we have Enlightning Strikes!! Will the Singer, is also the guitarist in London Based Urban Dub and now singing in his brand new band!! Thank you everyone for your support and coming all the way from Norwich! :-) to the right is DJ Santa himself! Who kept everyone boogieing away with some fantastic funky and festival style mixes! Thank you Alan :-)

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The the final band of the night was the amazing China Shop Bull! When I get the video I will get it up on the blog! You were absolutely amazing! We have now booked them back for September 11th at the Town Mill Mansfield! :-)

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 At the end of the evening!! We had the fabulous Dodgers Circus Workshop, entertaining the crowd at the Town Mill, with an excellent fire show! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

 

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