Bouncing Back and £4000

This month has been tough! Which is going to be hard to understand considering that I've just passed £3000 and £4000 all in one go!

A real serious quiet period left me really doubting my ability to do this for a while, I knew that this was going to be hard but refreshing my Virgin Money Giving thermometer daily and seeing no progress got tiring -
I felt a bit like I was aiming for the impossible and it really made me doubt everything! It's so tough because I feel like if I could sit back and KNOW that I've got all the funds - KNOW that my year is secure, then I could also know that it's what I really want to do. At times I feel like fundraising has clouded it all - like I'm confusing being really really sick of fundraising with being sick of the idea of going to Uganda!

But much like every other problem I woke up the next day and it felt like nothing! Of course Uganda is what I want to be doing! I told Project Trust on Selection that I had bouncebackability and I suppose this was the time to prove it!

So I got on with it and made a plan of action anyway, and soon enough the total was moving again. I organised some raffles at the Greyhound Stadium I work at and after completing my second one this month I made a total of £600! Also I got a couple more trust cheques and on top of that I was invited to present at the meeting of the local Soroptomists. As that moved me past the £3000 mark I was then blown away by a massive contribution from my school!

So I suppose in a way my worst month became one of my most beneficial and so out of no where I now only have about £1400 left to raise.

I'm happy anyway.
You have to take the good weeks with the bad; I'm bouncing back. It's all just part of the journey.