Posted in fundraising, secondlife, stuff4sam, virtualworlds on September 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For a two and a half years myself and some friends have been fundraising for a 3 year old friend called Sam who was severely disabled after a car crash. So far, with the £21,o000 raised, we’ve been able to buy him a specially adapted wheelchair so he can get out and about, an [...]
Posted in accessibility, fundraising, secondlife, stuff4sam, virtualworlds on July 25, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been hanging out in the virtual world Second Life a lot recently wrapping my head around all the amazing things you can do there. Something that’s really struck me however is how this could be a real opportunity for people who are restricted in some way in their day to day lives.
Working as a [...]
Posted in fundraising, stuff4sam on February 16, 2006 | No Comments »
The magic number of 8k has been hit, tipped over the balance by 80 quid from the office swear box! So it’s goodbye to swearing on tick, 4 for a pound and a string of expletives for your lunch money. What a relief (it’s not all good though as the swear box has been a [...]
Posted in fundraising, stuff4sam on January 27, 2006 | No Comments »
285 strips later (I know it’s been a busy week, especially in this weather, but it’s all part of the training), £500 has been raised from the raffle and £500 from the unwanted Christmas present sale. This has tipped the balance of money raised to a whopping total of £6,817!
Right, that’s it, I’m off to [...]
Posted in fundraising, stuff4sam on January 23, 2006 | 1 Comment »
A million thanks to everybody who’s sponsored me dog sledding. Thanks to the contributions from people both online and offline plus a crack team of fundraisers the target has been overshot by 2k. So I’ve upped it to 6k. Cheeky I know but worth it.
I had an email today confirming that an order has been [...]
