A Sample Fundraising Letter You Can Copy

If you've been asked to write a letter to help with fundraising for a group or charity that you're involved with, you may be staring at a blank piece of paper wondering just what to write.

Here's an actual letter that was used to raise a substantial sum towards a refit of church equipment and was sent to local trusts and grant-making bodies.

It's important to keep your letter to just one page, with supporting information of no more than two pages. Include one photo if you wish and if it's relevant.

Don't resort to begging, but write an informative letter which helps the donor to understand what your projects aims and goals are.

Although this is an actual letter, names and information has been changed, for obvious reasons.

Dear Mr Bentley

I am writing to Bentley Charity Trust on behalf of Finedown Baptist Church, as your guidelines indicate that you offer support for churches.

Finedown is a rapidly growing town situated in central Flintshire. It has a thriving business centre, with some of the top financial companies in the country being based locally.

We have a thriving youth group for local young people. We have a 68 members and offer services in both the morning and evening.

The church building is used by a number of different local groups because of its good acoustics, this includes the Watley Moor singers and the Big Down band. We also host activities such as yoga, fitness club and local coffee mornings for the local community.

We refitted our entrance seven years ago. However, the entrance doors are now in need of substantial repair if we are to be able to continue using them and welcoming in the community. The estimated cost of this work is £9995.

We have already raised the sum of £7900 through our fundraising efforts but need a further £2095 to be able to carry out the necessary work.

As a Trust that is interested in supporting and preserving buildings which are of value to the local community, we would be most grateful if you could consider assisting us with this project.

Please feel free to call me on 1234 678910 if you would like any further information.

Yours faithfully,

Jen Carter

Chair of the Fundraising Committee

Do ensure that you print this on headed paper, if you have it.

It's important that it's signed by the person whose name is on the bottom of the letter, this is not the time to be in a hurry and "pp" the letter on someone elses behalf.

If you would like an acknowledgement that your application for funding has been received, add a stamped, self-addressed postcard or envelope.

Only send off letter to trusts that offer funding in your area and your type of project.

Once you've sent off your applications, be patient! Most of these boards only meet every two or three months, so it may be some time until you hear whether or not you've been successful.

If you are offered a grant, always write and say thank you. Write again once the project is up and running to let them know of your progress.

Halloween Costume Ideas For You and Your Mate

When couples are trying to decide what to be for Halloween. The decision is usually left up to the female. The only problem is the female wants to be something funny and cute that says were a couple and the man well he's a man. So getting them into the costume the woman chooses for him may not be so easy.

But here are a few great ideas and ways you can get your man to wear that Halloween costume. Your best chance to get this done is to compromise a little bit and choose something that is more manly. One great idea would be for you to go as a wench and for him to be your pirate. This way you can dress in hot and sexy dress and boustie and well him . Argh what man would want to be a pirate.

Another great idea is to go as a saloon girl and him to go as a cowboy. This way you can wear cowboy shirt and jeans. Along with six shooter and manly cowboy hat and you can dress as a hot slutty saloon girl, wearing high heeled boots, a knee-high dress and a sexy slip underneath.

More great ways to show your a couple is you can go dressed up as a sexy lion, and he could be your lion tamer with a whip. You don't think that would get him excited, one the most important things When you're trying to come up for a costume ideas for couples is to remember that being cute is great, and stupid well is stupid. And you don't want to make your man feel that way .

If you prefer, there is a more traditional costumes such as Jack and Jill. You can really get into it by having both of you carry pails and writing Jack and Jill on the back of each other shirts. Jack can go with a broken crown and Jill you can wear some short shirts ant tie your shirt in front. And then really dress it up by having tons of blood pouring from Jack head, and Jill should be all bruised up from tumbling down after him.

Just remember for him nothing really too fussy, and something that fits them comfortably. If you do this. You can even use the staples such as a Playboy bunny and Hef, a French maid, and his Butler or even a Football player and a hot high school cheerleader.

As long as he feels a little manly in his costume when you're not standing right by his side you should have no problem getting them into something cute and funny. Good Luck

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I Don't Want to Know

"No!" The sound of my own voice yelling brought me out of the nightmare. I pushed the covers off and sat on the side of the bed.

"Are you okay?" my husband asked as he rushed into the bedroom. "That dream again?"

Shivers caused goose bumps to rise on my skin. "Yes, the same dream. I can't go to sleep without dreaming about her stuffed on the floorboard of a car." The "she" I dreamed about night after night for nearly a week was our two-year-old granddaughter: stuffed on the floorboard of some car, her little face so pale, a blue ring around her mouth. I had to get her, had to save my baby. Always the dream ended when I woke in fear, trembling, crying, and filled with dread.

"Look, you notified her parents, and they will take special care. Everyone knows about your 'feelings'." Robert rubbed my back, soothing me.

Yes, everyone in the family knew about my "feelings." They knew that I sensed when something was wrong, often having dreams about "things." This time the same dream occurred over and over since Sunday night. I couldn't sleep for more than an hour or two. I needed rest. I stared at the clock.

"It's just 9:30," I mused aloud. "I slept less than thirty minutes."

"You need to sleep. You can't go on like this and keep up with your classes." Robert voiced the same thoughts I had. "Why don't you call the doctor in the morning and see if he will get you something to help you sleep?"

"You know the doctor's office closes at noon on Fridays. I can't get to the phone until after that." I sighed. "I'll just manage some way." I stood. "I may as well find something to do. I guess I could work some more on my lesson plans." I gave a humorless laugh. "I've already finished them through this semester. I've never been so organized before."

After working several hours on lesson plans for the six classes I taught, I couldn't hold my eyes open. Glancing at my watch, I noticed the time was 2:15. I made my way back to bed, where now Robert slept. I crawled in beside him, fell asleep almost immediately, and didn't dream.

I overslept and had to rush to get ready to leave for school. Robert honked the bus horn as I grabbed my bag and hurried from the house. He drove a bus, picking up students at the school where I taught and at another town before transporting them to the vocational technical school in a third town. The district allowed him to drive the bus home, and I rode with him home and back to school the next morning.

I arrived at school to find teachers talking about a girl who had gone missing the night before. Apparently she was to meet her father in the parking lot after a junior high football game, but she never showed. The superintendent walked in the teacher's lounge and handed me a slip of paper.

"I was asked to give you this as soon as you arrived. Your brother said it's very important," Mr. Tomlinson told me.

I glanced at the note, "Have you seen J.J.? She disappeared last night." Suddenly I knew who I had dreamed about. My granddaughter and J.J. resembled each other, and a photo of J.J. when she was two could be one of Macayla now. I had been concerned about the wrong little girl.

By that night, every news program, every newspaper screamed the message: Twelve-year-old Cheerleader's Body Found. A recently released sex offender had been arrested, but too late to save a bright, beautiful young girl. She had been kidnaped, tortured, molested, and strangled. Jenipher J. Gilbert died about 2:10 that Friday morning.

Sometimes I hate these "feelings" I have. I really don't want to know.

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Cheerleading Summer Camps

An activity to cheer at sports teams, games or any other competitive performances using dance or gymnastics as an element is called cheerleading. The participants in cheerleading activities are called cheerleaders. Cheerleading summer camps are designed to develop cheerleading skills and teaching them new techniques of cheerleading.

Cheerleading camps have a day packed with instructions and practice for their participants. Teams are termed as squads. These squads are encouraged to participate as a team and learn new cheering techniques. Practice sessions are conducted to evaluate their performances based on the training sessions. Squads are evaluated on their performance on the final day when a cheerleading competition is organized.

Campers are given written evaluations. These ratings lay stress on the achievements and areas of improvement. Two aspects are taken into consideration while evaluating. One is the leadership quality of the cheerleader to involve the crowd in the activity and the second is the technique used in cheerleading.

Cheerleading techniques include cheer chanting, tumbling and stunting. Chants are usually a repetitive process that involves group participation.

These camps are usually day camps and participants need to bring along snacks with them. If it is an all-inclusive camp then it might be a little more expensive than one that doesn?t supply as many additional services Most of these camps also do a show or presentation for the parents towards the end of the camp to exhibit the skills acquired by the cheerleaders during these camps.

Before enrolling for these camps it is necessary to see if the camps are safe. Cheerleading stunts could involve gymnastics, stunts or other such techniques. The coaches should be professionally qualified. They should be able to deal with emergencies and ensure the safety of the participants.

In America cheerleading is very popular-- especially at football and basketball matches. Cheerleading is a spectacular event off the grounds by itself. There are some squads that have become as popular as the sports stars themselves, although the cheerleaders are present to mainly motivate the team and fans.

New Soccer Coach's Sample Letter to Parents

You are a young or inexperienced youth soccer coach, and you have a bunch of excited and excitable parents who are yelling at their kids or who are simoply eager to help. What do you say to them to get them on your side? How can we enlist them to be part of a great organization? If we don't manage their expectations and focus their energy we are missing a great opportunity or worse, running th risk of drama. Drama is not good for the team!

Don't worry! All will be well! Here is a technique I have used with great success: a Coach's Letter To Parents" which establishes firmly the expectations of parents, players and coaches for the season. You can easily adapt this to suit your own needs. It has worked like a charm for me. It's gratifying to see the parents using the right language of support and encouragement for their girls and it lets me focus on the job of coaching.

Here's the letter:

Memo for: Parents of ___________Girls soccer team for _________ Subject: My coaching goals, perspectives and intent

1. I will coach the U10Gs as a volunteer. I have a lifelong love of soccer, played on a really good club team for a couple years in college and am competent in building skills and managing practices/games. I've coached many of the girls on the team already through 2 outdoor and 1 futsal (indoor) season, with excellent results as measured by our Big 5 (see below).

2. My focus for the girls are the Big 5, and it's how we as a team will keep our focus and evaluate ourselves during and after every game:

1. Play hard

2. Have fun

3. Support your team

4. Love the game

5. Respect the other team and the referees

We are winners when we do that. I will keep asking them to express what these mean to them in their own words.

3. It's very important for you to be the parents of your girls, and let me be their coach. They thrive on knowing they have your unconditional love, admiration and enthusiasm, and letting me challenge them on the technical aspects of the game. The Big 5 would be an excellent set of discussion points with your girls to reinforce what's really important for them at this age.

4. My goals are to provide a supportive environment for the girls to grow strong character through healthy competition and to develop their individual and team skills in soccer. I want them to contribute to and value the strength of their team. We know that strong, positive, social groups are an important source of moral strength for our girls in the teen years.

5. My focus on the girls as players is to give them equal time to play, and to help each girl grow her skills each practice, game and week. We measure success by our effort, our attitude and how far we have come.

6. My relationship with parents has been very good and I appreciate your help in reinforcing the lessons above through positive language and good sportsmanship.

7. I strongly encourage you to be active with your daughter in between practices. Soccer is great fun and kicking the ball around is a great way to burn some calories and enjoy playing together. If you'd like to help at practice, we can make that work too.

Sincerely,

_______.

Cheerleading Clothes - Their Style And Durability

When you were in school you likely noticed that there were a number of your female classmates who wore cheerleading clothes most of the school year. Of course, probably not for fun, but because there was always a sport in need of cheerleaders. The colors on these clothes were always brilliant and cheerful looking. You could also see the most important item on their cheerleading clothes. This was the school's team emblem.

Although there are many sports that require cheerleaders, it is almost always true that the most significant event in schools is that of football. So many of the cheerleading teams are formed to promote these young men into giving their very best at football games - both at the school field and when they travel to other schools. So to stand out from the assorted people on the field, cheerleaders can be seen wearing cheerleading uniforms.

Also, it never seized to amaze me about football cheerleaders. It often times didn't matter if it was pouring down rain or small wind storm these girls and their uniforms stood up to the test. This leads me to my next notion, that is cheerleading clothes must be rough and rugged.

These cheerleading clothes are designed to withstand lots of wear and tear. For instance the young women would be doing cheer movements like a pyramid structure. At other times they will do handstands and cartwheels. As you see these are movements that involve using the whole body. Therefore their cheerleading clothes need to be supple and lightweight. They need to also be able to withstand rain and wind.

There are many different types of cheerleading clothes that are worn by cheerleaders. These outfits can be a short pleated skirt, briefs and close fitting top, a body hugging short sleeveless dress, bright colored top and shorts. The main characteristic of these cheerleading clothes is that they are short so that the legs have copious room to perform all of the cheer movements without being restricted. Also, that the tops are form fitting. This is to elevate them getting in the way of the movements of their cheers.

The other fact that is evident in these cheerleading clothes is that the school's squad and emblem are brilliantly emblazoned on the front of the clothes. Again, this is the to support the comradery. Some of the other pieces that generally go with the outfit are the other accessories such as pom poms, hair accessories and of course, sneakers that won't clash with their schools colors. As you can see part of the attraction that cheerleading holds for young women is these clothes.

There are many places where you can get cheerleading clothes, but you must check with your schools cheer instructor if the cheer uniform will be purchased by the school or if you should go about purchasing the outfit yourself. More often then not, the school does the purchasing of the uniforms. One of the major reasons for this is to have uniformity. One of the main concerns in cheerleading clothes is that the uniforms should not only fit comfortably but they must not look like another team or school's cheer costume. The schools cheer instructor usually has a pretty good hand on all this, that is why they have here in that role.

So, a few tips to remember are; form fitting tops, short skirts and briefs. This is for the freedom to be able to perform all their cheers. Also, mothers, remember part of the appeal of cheerleading clothes is that they let your daughter express her inner feelings in a safe, positive and comfortable environment.

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Lombardi Trophy Tour

Indiana residents have recently received a chance in a lifetime. The Indianapolis Colts have the Vince Lombardi Trophy on tour in Indiana. Some of the Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders and some very high security are traveling along side the trophy and are signing autographs.

Waiting lines were reported to be over 2 hours long, but many people were willing to wait for this chance in a lifetime opportunity. Most people realize that they will never have this chance again, and wanted to touch it and get their pictures taken with the trophy.

The Indianapolis Colts say that the Lombardi Trophy will have 50 stops to make all over the state of Indiana and some parts of Illinois and Kentucky, before it returns home to them. The Indianapolis Colts are very pleased to have this trophy and simply want to share the experience with the whole state.

Along with the Lombardi tour, there are Colts merchandise giveaways, Blue mascot autographs, photo frames with proceeds going to the United Way and as mentioned before, Colts cheerleader autographs.
The Indianapolis Colts will allow you to take one picture with the Lombardi trophy, and more pictures from a further distance. They have told fans to please get the picture taken and move on, due to the very long lines.

This Lombardi Trophy Tour just goes to show you how much the Indianapolis Colts appreciates their fans, and their glory. Their generosity has made it possible for thousands of Colts fans to fulfill a dream, and they will not be forgotten for it.

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