Hello all,
A big thank you to all who have donated jumble and food for our latest Grasmere Jumble sale. Thank you also to those who have put up posters; who have helped sort the jumble (especially the mountain of clothes!), who have helped set up and tidy up afterwards, and of course who have manned the stalls during the sale…
It was well worth the effort: the event brought in a whopping £1,794.76 for our school’s charity!
Here’s a break down of what we raised:
DOOR – £199.63
FRIDAY SALES – £38
DESIGNER CORNER – £334.08
BRIC-A-BRAC – £52.66
BOOKS – £242.08
TOYS – £136.55
SHOES – £38
CLOTHES – £257.35
FOOD – £276.41
PARENT MATCHED FUNDRAISING – £300
We hope those who attended enjoyed the new layout, with half of the stalls outside in the playground. To be able to do this (and to make our next events both less weather-dependent and more Covid-safe) we have invested £622 in buying two large gazebos with sides (as well as sand weights for the gazebos and the doors).
Our food offering was absolutely delicious (thank you to Grasmere parent business @onroot_ for supplying some of their butternut squash) and raised quite a big chunk of money; we’ll try to advertise this more to the local community next time.
Books-wise we sold lots, and we kepts two big Ikea bags of great books for the school library, and gave the teachers two more boxes of books to pick from for their classrooms.
If you have any suggestions on how we could improve the jumble sale please let us know. The area that we felt wasn’t working particularly well was the clothes section – there was just too much of it, and we need a better display system. If you have any idea on how to improve this, or if you have any clothes rails, shoe trees or folding plastic crates that you don’t need, please let us know for next time.
The next jumble sale is in the Spring – and the next FROGS meeting is on 3 November at 8 via Zoom. We’ll be confirming our November and December events very soon.
Thank you,
FROGS
PS: The school has sent out the Enrichment Clubs forms; these will be held from 1 November to 10 December, and from 10 January to 4 February (a total of 10 classes). There has been some cancellations from the teachers for clubs including cooking, skateboarding and tennis, but we will do our best to try and set them up for the Spring term.