Mud, Money & A Duck Race
Senior prefects at Llangatwg Community School in Neath Port Talbot got cold, wet and muddy for charity!
We were giving a challenge to raise at least £50 for a charity of our choice. We chose Barnardo's Cymru.
We exceeded this and raised £125 in one day! We decided to have a 'duck race' but there were no ducks, just ball-pit balls.
Both head girl and deputy were giving the boring job of numbering the balls, one to two hundred.
After that, both of us went around asking pupils to buy a ball for 50p, but for teachers we charged £1, ha ha! We had lots of donations, from £5 to £40 worth of Argos vouchers from our local tuck shop.
The gruelling work took place soon after. There is a brook that flows through the middle of our school grounds. We had to clean the mud and dam the stream so no balls got caught.
We spent two hours cutting bushes, shovelling mud, damming the stream and also collecting fallen change that was in the stream for our jar of money. We were all soaked, frozen and very mucky.
There was a lot of banter from our teachers. Our PE teacher happily donated our biology teacher's money. As they passed they dropped cheeky comments like "I though I'd never see the day when you scrubbed the floors". There were also one or two slips which also added laughs.
At one o'clock, both head prefects released all 200 balls and everyone cheered their number. All the seniors had jobs such as coaxing the balls down the shallow stream, catching the balls in nets, and picking the winners.
I was given a brush to give the water a bit of momentum, like a sweeper playing a game of curling. I had to reach for the balls that were stuck and was literally up to my elbows in mud.
We had to crawl under three bridges on which spectators jumped on. Joe, head boy, pulled up the dam and the balls came gushing through, finally.
Then we had to restart the race because some drip forgot to put the balls in order. We restarted the race and this time it went well without any hiccups. The winners were three pupils and Will, a senior prefect's dad.
We were left with mud heaps, dirty brooms and shovels, wood, soaked clothes and a jar full of money. A duck race is the perfect way to gain good skin (mud bath), huge biceps (from all the shovelling) and is a fun way to fundraise.
The head prefects (Joe and I) will be presenting Barnardo's Cymru with the money later this week, also with a few more pound after we finish our treasure hunt.
Everybody should be fundraising for charities and for people less fortunate than ourselves. Especially at this time of year, Christmas.
Have you been fundraising? Comment below.
Merry Christmas everyone!
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Commented 17 months ago - 17th December 2010 - 08:49am
Well done Jess, you raised so much money!!