fundraise for flicker

i wrote this email and sent it to all my friends and more importantly... to my parents friends.



In November 2004, one of my best friends from University was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). George is the most active guy I know - the last thing I expected was for him to be hit with a debilitating illness. Over the course of the next 2 years he suffered 7 relapses each followed by periods of remittance. The relapses consisted of different symptoms each time, ranging from partial blindness and severe fatigue to the inability to move his arms or even walk. Over Easter 2006, George began a new chemotherapy based drug and since then things have thankfully appeared to be on an upward curve.

As a result of our shared experience of George’s illness we have decided to start Flicker, a charitable organization. Flicker is a web based charity that will increase awareness of MS for 18-35 year olds.

Please check out our website www.flicker.ms

- which currently gives details of our objectives and allows you to donate for the future development of the site. We hope it will become the most accessible and informative MS website to date.

In my role as trustee and Creative Director, I will be in charge of the development of the website. We are open to any help we can get; web developers, designers or anyone who would like to be involved - please get in contact.

Of course we would also welcome any donations. I am running the Amsterdam Half Marathon on October 15th with 20 other founder members of Flicker and would be hugely grateful of sponsorship no matter how small …or large!

I would love to hear any of your thoughts and comments,

Cheers

Freddie


If you would like to donate, Either;

Send a cheque made out to Flicker to

Freddie Yauner
115 Petherton Road
London N5 2RS

Or

if you would prefer, please put funds directly into the following account (please remember to reference ‘Freddie Amsterdam’ and your name) :

Account Name: Flicker
Bank: Natwest
Account Number: 45 68 71 10
Sort Code: 60-60-05






The funds are starting to come in and have had lots of people happy to offer other services to flicker and general support.


Also don't forget for every 100 pounds raised we will refund you £30 off your travel expense so get fundraising!!!

Feel free to copy and paste parts of my letter, its best to send out emails in small batches rather than one long list make people feel special!!! go on with half an hours plowing through your adress book and a super friedly email to your mum for a mailing list could earn us big bucks... have a go and see if we can put the fun back in fundraise!