Teddy Collection for GOSH - Final total was 173!!!

Gem+Dave+Kaci

New total = 80!!!

Gem+Dave+Kaci

Hey everyone,

3 things:  Firstly I wanted to say a huge thanks to everyone who has donated and also everyone who has PMed me with messages of encouragement (including the people that keep telling me I should get the reward for post of the month, although I'm sure there's more deserving people on here)

Secondly, I've finally managed to upload a pic of the teddies we've collected so far!  The pic's hosted HERE and as you can see in the pic, the box (which measures 2 ft by 1.5 ft by 1 ft) is full to the brim!!

Thirdly, a few people have asked me why we decided to do this collection.  Well my partner and I had a baby girl 5 months ago (Kaci) and while we were collecting our teddies one day from boots someone instore mentioned that any tokens left behind were being collected by the store and would be donated to local charities.  This made us think how great it'd be if we all clubbed together (and by the looks of it a lot of people on here love boots!!) and collected for some of the kids who would really appreciate receiving these teddies this christmas!

And now, only 4 weeks later we've got 80 teddies with about 8 or 9 more envelopes arriving every day!!

Anyway, as I said before, thanks to everyone who has helped and this website has been so helpful to us all that it's great to be giving something back as a kind of thank-you.

Dave, Gem and Kaci.

Everton_1878

Weldone, your doing a great job, you will be putting a smile on them childrens faces at GOSH ;D
The picture looks great.
Hope my 12 arrived to you in time.

juno

Are you going to donate them as soon as the promotion ends, or will you wait til Christmas?

Gem+Dave+Kaci

We're planning to take them down there when the promotion has ended (we were originally going to go by train but I think we'll have to drive there now because the boxes are too big!)

fairy_kisses

i just wanted say well done on your collection. ive only just joined the site but ive been watching your thread as a guest for a few days now and i think its a brilliant thing youre doing. ive nominated you for post of the month and i hope that everyone else on here does too because you deserve it. congratulations.

angelcake

Are you still collecting?

RCB28

Well done on your collection - it was a fantastic idea and I'm happy to have donated some tokens. My kids certainly don't need the toys - far better that they go where they're needed and appreciated! Hope you'll do this next year too!!!

Gem+Dave+Kaci

Hey everyone,

Thanks for the lovely messages and all the words of encouragement! We're gonna try to do this all over again next time boots or someone else has a really good promotion like this but it's definitly been loads more work than we thought it'd be (we were only expecting to collect about 20 teddies!!) - definitly all worth it though!

By the way, the new total is 85 teddies, we've got about 80 tokens here to redeem still, and judging by the amount of tokens that have been arriving every day it looks like we're gonna break 100!!

Gem+Dave+Kaci

Major update:

Collected another 16 teddies today bringing the total up to (drum-roll please...) '101 teddies!!!'

And they still keep coming!