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CMT Awareness Month!!!
Well, it's over... We've been very pleased with all the articles that have been published over the month of September, and if you're interested in reading them, you can find a full list of all the articles here http://www.cmt.org.uk/news.php
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Fundraising
We had a bit of a "master class" over dinner with a professional fundraiser just before the Scottish Conference, and have come to realise that we're really not doing NEARLY enough to ensure the long-term stability (and even survival) of CMT United Kingdom. This is not a call for you all to start running marathons, but just a bit of a wake up call for us. We need to become much less reliant on you lovely people for our income, and do much more to seek funding outside of our walls, so to speak. If anyone has any ideas as to where we can start, it would be appreciated. In particular, if anyone has any experience of seeking "core funding" (for salaries, rent and the like), that would be very helpful. Most grant funders will fund "projects" but not those essential core costs.
But if you are interested in helping us, we will be able to set up monthly direct debits for donations very shortly. Regular, ongoing, giving is what we need!
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Fundraising - part 2!
Meanwhile....
Hello
I am writing to you to let you know that for the whole month of October every Barclays Corporate Banking team across The Midlands, Wales and the South West are challenging each other to the 10,000 steps a day challenge!
Every mem ber of each of the teams will be walking, running or cycling 10,000 steps a day for 31 days in a bid to raise monies for their nominated charities.
How far is 10,000 steps anyway? The average person's stride length is approximately 2.5 feet long. That means it takes just over 2,000 steps to walk one mile, and 10,000 steps is close to 5 miles. So......... 5 miles per day over 31 days is a total of 155 miles or the equivalent of just under 6 marathons each!
Amazingly there are a total of 308 members of Barclays Staff taking part who over 31 days will have covered a distance of 92,184,700 steps which equates to approximately 46,092 miles!!!!
The challenge is how will I do it when a sedentary person may only average 1,000 to 3,000 steps a day??
In the Hereford & Worcester Corporate team we have decided to raise funds for CMT UK (and another charity)
If you feel you could donate a few pounds please visit our web page and click to ' donate' to the charity of your choice. Barclays will match every £1 you give.
http://www.justgiving.com/companyteams/herefordworcester
Thank you for your support it is much appreciated.
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FUNDRAISING - Part 3!
Do you get a feeling there's a theme to this newsletter .... sorry!! No - I take that back, I'm not sorry - fundraising is a hot topic for us at the moment, as you'll have gathered, and if there is one thing that I've learned so far - if you don't ask, you don't get!!
Anyhow, this idea could be fun, and helpful with Christmas coming up - and pretty painless too!
 STATUS JEWELLERY is an online Jewellery shop, based in Glasgow, run by Ken McFadzean, who has CMT. He would like to launch a "jewellery party" scheme - whereby you would contact him, he'd send you a selection of jewellery from his stock and you invite your friends, family and colleagues to have a look, and buy.... Anything unsold, you'd send back to him postage paid. The good part for us is - we would get 20% commission on all your purchases. Basically, you'd send him two cheques for the total sold - one for 80% made payable to him, the second for the balance, made payable to us, which he'd forward. If you're interested, please contact Ken direct on kenmcfstatus@aol.com - the only restriction is you must be a registered (paid up) member of CMT United Kingdom in order to host your party. He can obviously only provide stock for a limited number of parties at one time, so if you'd like one before Christmas, please do contact Ken quickly.
Incidentally, we get 20% commission from ALL sales from the website too! Ken came to the Scottish Conference with lots of his beautiful products, and donated £50 to us from the sales he made on the day.
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Membership of CMT United Kingdom
So what are the benefits of membership?
Access to our members only section of the CMT website with its huge library of publications
Three editions of our full colour magazine. ComMenT, per year
Monthly e-ComMenT's with lots of extra news.
Local groups around the country
Local contacts - there are almost 30 members around the country who are happy to talk to you by phone or by email - find the list on the website in the Member's Area
Discounted attendance at our fantastic Annual Conference - next one on 20th April 2013 at the Holiday Inn, Runcorn, Cheshire.
And all this for only £22per year, or £27 for families! (New rates as from 1st October 2012)
Join at www.cmt.org.uk - if you sign up for an direct debit, you can even have the first year free! |
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