Nice one mick.
in order to raise more funds, 'cos you'll be amazed how generous people can be, have you:
1- sent a text with a link to your page to virtually everyone in your mobile phone's address book.
2 – sent an email to everyone in your email address book, especially business contacts with a link to your page( i amazingly recieved £100 from a a travel company based 200 miles away we had used twice!!!!! amazing!!!!!!)
3 – don't worry if your emails and texts duplicate, all's fair in love and charity fundraising…. plus many people mean to donate but then forget and appreciate the reminder,
4 – update your JG page.
5 – bang in a simple press release, pretty much what you wrote in your initial post would do, and email it to the editors of all your local rags, you know what they are, look em up online and get the email addy's, including the free ones, and send one of the photo's of yourself on your bike: they love free copy that's ready to cut and paste straight in to their pages when they're a bit slow, and during the holiday season they are ususaly slow and understaffed so you're a shoe in to get published and help raise support.
6 – Do you patronise a local corner shop/pub/postoffice? ask them if they would put up a poster for you, and if they give a positive reception, ask if they would even consider having a sponsor form on the counter, and or tin. Many places love to do this, and my local spar shop have made me over a ton on their own so far i reckon.
keep smiling and keep it up matey
Drillski
