Hello!
In this newsletter you’ll find information on our October events, including the Garden Party and the Jumble Sale, as well as on our main fundraisers this year: the Grasmere Cookbook and teatowel.
But first, huge congratulations to the Summer fair team again – they raised way more than initially thought, due to late transfer of Square card takings. The fair raised over £3,000 for the school, congratulations Megan and Sally and co!
Don’t forget the first cake sale of the year, the Year 6 cake sale today at 3.30. Cash, cards and FROGS stamp cards accepted, most cakes £1.
Here is a copy of the FROGS AGM minutes, and below what we were up to last year:
We’ll update you as soon as possible on all our current projects, but in the meantime, please take a look at our main fundraisers for this year…
GRASMERE COOKBOOK AND TEATOWEL
As voted at our AGM our two main fundraising projects this year will hopefully be a community cookbook and portrait tea towels. Please help if you can!
Have a look at the 2020 edition of the school’s cookbook here to have an idea of what we’re planning. We’ll need help collating the recipes, quotes and portraits, contacting local restaurants to ask for their recipes, and taking high-resolution images of the dishes, so if you want to help with any of this, please look out for a link on your Whatsapp Group to join Team Cookbook. The team will then be sending out some information on how to submit your recipes.
We’re also looking for helpers to coordinate the Tea Towel project, which will be a teatowel printed with self-portraits of all the children at Grasmere this year. The goal is to get each child to draw a self-portrait (or thumbprint for nursery!) with a black pen on a bit of square paper. If you have time to help with this, please lookout for the WhatsApp Group invite to join Team Teatowel.
The aim is to have these done in time to sell before Christmas, so expect more info about these very soon. As ever these projects cannot happen without your help, so please volunteer if you can!
The Garden Party
Please join us on Friday 4 October after school for FROGS’ Garden Party! There will be drinks and snacks as well as free pizza, squash and kids activities. It’s a great opportunity to meet other Grasmere parents and carers. If you can help with this event (we need volunteers for the firepit and setting-up/tidying up), please sign up here.
Members of the FROGS committee will also be there to answer your questions about our charity, and listen to your suggestions.
The Jumble Sale
Please note that the Jumble Sale now has a new date: it will now be held on Saturday 12 October. We need enough jumble to fill the blue container, and lots and lots of volunteers.
Please sign up here if you can help.
Thank you and take care,
FROGS
DONATE TO FROGS
Donations to FROGS are always welcome. Please take a look at latest projects to see how your money might be used. You can also set up a monthly direct debit donation on Kindlink.
Find out more on how to help here, including more info about the matched funding and workplace giving schemes, which are available for employees of some large companies.