It’s forty days until I turn forty! This is my big push to reach my fundraising target for my urgently-needed neurosurgery that is not available in the UK.
We’ve thought of a way to break it down and make the target achievable. We just need 400 people, 400 of you who are reading this, to try to raise £1000 each in the next 40 days before I turn 40 on the 29th April.
Whether you do that through a bake sale, a pub quiz, a walk, a run, a cycle, a swim, a sail, a danceathon, a coffee morning, a mini golf tournament, a raffle, a knitathon, hosting a meal and charging per head, a concert, a talent show, or a fundraiser of your own choosing, is up to you. Or you could do a combination of these.
So that we know how many of you are doing this, please leave your name in a comment on this blog post, if you are going to be attempting to raise £1000.
My fundraising page is https://gofundme.com/savejenny
If you would rather donate via cheque (this would also avoid GoFundMe taking out any fees from your donation), please make your cheque payable to:
J K ROWBORY
(please make sure that you spell the surname correctly; it’s an unusual spelling)
and send it to the following P.O. Box address (this P.O. Box will only be available for a couple of months):
Jenny’s Neurosurgery Fund
PO Box Number 109,
MACHYNLLETH
SY20 0AS
If you would like an acknowledgement of the safe arrival of a postal donation, please enclose an address to which my Mum can send a reply. We will add the amount donated by your cheque as an ‘offline donation’ to the online fundraising page, to add to the total. Please let us know if you would like your postal donation to be anonymous or please state the name under which you would like it publicly displayed on the fundraising page.
If you need a video to show or explain to people what you are raising money for, you can share this video with them, which explains what is wrong with my neck, what I have to do every day to stay alive, and why it is getting more urgent that I get this neurosurgery as soon as possible:
https://youtu.be/4XbNiqMCMns:
That video will answer every question that you have. It’s also the first pinned video on my profile on Instagram (here: https://www.instagram.com/jennyrowbory), TikTok (here: https://www.tiktok.com/@jennyrowbory) and Facebook (here: https://www.facebook.com/JennyRowbory) so you can share the video from there, if need be.
We can do this together! It’s very achievable if just 400 people try to raise £1000.
Thank you so very much.
Feel free to use this photo of me at your fundraising endeavours:
I will try and put something together to raise money.
Thank you so much, Antonia. That’s really kind of you. 🫶
Jenny’s courage is unbelievable. The wait needs to end this year. I commit to raising 1000 GBP for her surgery.
Thank you, Dominic. It’s much appreciated. Very kind.
I’m quite ill and bedbound with ME myself, with a non existent social media presence. But I will think of ways to encourage the kind people I do know to help me raise this target.
I was completely bedbound several years ago and things were tough. Your blog was a shining light in those times. I would really like to be able to help in return.
Unfortunately I’m not well placed after a relapse but I will do my best for you Jenny!
This is so kind of you but please don’t worry about doing anything; you’re very ill yourself. Thank you for your kind words about my blog; I often felt like nobody was reading it so this is a real encouragement. Thank you. I’m glad that it helped. Look after yourself and take care. 🫶
Planning a bake sale
and encouraging friends to do their thing too.
Love Sarah
Remembering meeting your Dad at greenbelt festival for Jenny the giraffe exchange – really lovely genuine guy.
Thank you, Sarah. That’s so kind of you.
I hope to raise £1000 by offering photosessions for families, asking them to donate directly to the gofundme page.
Thank you so much, Kelly. This is incredibly kind of you.
Count me in. I’ll do my best to raise the money.
Thank you so much, Martyn. This is incredibly kind of you, especially since you’ve already been so generous. Thank you for bringing hope.
I’m struggling with time with my little one keeping me busy 24/7 but I will be planning a raffle for you to try and help a little bit! Xx
Thank you so much, Christine. I really appreciate it. xxx
I am pondering what to do… might ask people to sponsor me and vote for what I need to do (sign up for a run? Get a tattoo?!).
Hoping to raise you money!
Thank you, Ruth! Hope that you come up with an idea that you’re happy with! (The tattoo sounds a bit drastic 😮😅)
Haha! Well my brother is a tattoo artist so it’s not too left field… my brothers all have matching ones.
Bake sale date organised (Mon 27th April)
Also some people are donating money instead of coming to the day already.
And we are offering baked goods ahead of the event to friends by way of raising money in the lead up to the event. If we only had a raffled cake and drinks on the day (not likely) that’d be okay!
I hope this helps someone else with their plans.
Thank you so much! This sounds great. And yes, it’s helpful to encourage others with ideas for what they can do. Thank you!
Idea for fundraising which i am trialling now in readiness for part of of my fundraising bake sale is to make mug cakes in the microwave and freeze them for the day of fundraising.
If you are thinking of doing the same but worried about lots of leftovers: my local the pantry is taking the leftovers the next day but lets hope for maximum sales! Note that foodbanks will not take homemade food produce. Cheese Scones loaves and oat cakes already underway, my (American style!) freezer is filling up which is also something to think about.
How can you sell as you go…Friends, Family, Colleagues? Local groups?
ps my lovely husband is doing most of the more involved baking! He’s been amazing!