Season s Greetings

Stalls in November

We have the following stalls selling our hand made toys and clothes:

Community Market, The Octagon, Bar Hill, Cambridgeshire

Saturday 6th November 10.30am to 4.00pm
Takings were £25.50

Addenbrooke’s Outpatients, Cambridge

Tuesday 2nd November 10.00am to 4.00pm
Takings were £279.70

Affiliates Network

Friends of the Rosie are part of the Darwin Affiliates Network. Links to the stores we are affiliated with are on our website at http://www.rosieinstitches.org.uk/links.htm

Some offers you can take advantage of today are:

• Garden Bargains are offering 50% OFF membership to the Garden Bargains Discount Club (now only £10 per year)

When you shop with GLTC, IWOOT, Laura Ashley, Habitat, Domino Pizza, Farm and Cottage holidays, Garden Bargains, Oak Furniture Solutions, Moo cards, Great Days Out and Skate Hut go to their websites through ours at www.rosieinstitches.org.uk/links.htm and click on the shop you want. A percentage of your shopping bill will then come to The Friends of the Rosie Hospital as a donation.

Apple Festival, Ely, 16th October 2010 10am-4pm

The Ely branch of the Cambridge Ktog group are having a stall at the Apple Festival in Ely on Saturday 16th October. The event is on the Palace Green from 10am to 4pm and all the items for sale will have an apple theme.

The stall raised £393.50 and they won the trophy for “best dressed stall”.

Stalls in October

We have the following stalls selling our hand made toys and clothes:

Community Market, The Octagon, Bar Hill, Cambridgeshire

Saturday 2nd October 10.30am to 12.30pm

Apple Festival, Palace Green, Ely, Cambridgeshire

Saturday 16th October 2010 - 10:00am - 4:00pm
Raised £393.50 and won the trophy for “best dressed stall”

Addenbrooke’s Outpatients, Cambridge

Friday 15th October 10.00am to 4.00pm

Sold £198

Facebook

Have just created a page on Facebook
Have a look at our photo album at

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=29767&id=154676434572021&saved

Making a Donation

You can make a donation to our charity through the following methods:

On eBay at http://donations.ebay.co.uk/charity/charity.jsp?NP_ID=35736

On our own Rosie in Stitches website at http://www.rosieinstitches.org.uk/

Rosie in Stitches will receive donations if you:

Use Easysearch to search the internet at http://forh.easysearch.org.uk

Use Easyfundraising to shop online at http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/forh

Use the links to the stores we are affiliated with at http://www.rosieinstitches.org.uk/links.htm

You can buy new hand made items direct from us at http://www.rosieinstitches.org.uk/

or seconds through our eBay charity store at http://shop.ebay.co.uk/rosieinstitches2010/m.html

Every time you shop online with easyfundraising in October you get one entry into the prize draw for a £250 Habitat Giftcard. TWO entries when you make any purchase from Habitat through www.easyfundraising.org.uk/forh

Community Market, Octagon, Bar Hill Saturday 2nd October

Start your Christmas gift shopping now!

We shall have a display of toys and clothes at the market from 10.30am to 12.30pm. There will be sweets, cakes, witches, ghosts, pumpkins, spiders. We have discount clothes from £1 an item and full price items ranging in price from £5 to £7. We have a small selection of bobble hats in football team colours for Histon, Cambridge City, Cambridge United, Norwich, Liverpool, Chelsea.

Knitting Bee

We had a lovely day sheltering from the rain sewing designer labels into witches, ghosts, apples, spiders. Rummaging through our stash for yarns to knit ghostly towers and pizzas.

eBay favourite charity grant

Liquorice Allsorts

Today I have been knitting sweets for selling at the Farmland Museum Food Festival on 26th September 2010

New Arrival

I have just opened our blog account and will be spending my spare time filling in all the blanks. Will publicise this account widely once the majority of the important blanks have been filled.