Volunteer Week Warehouse
Officially half way through celebrating National Volunteers Week! Today we interviewed Anthony, one of our volunteers that helps in our warehouse.
The Allstars are our Stars
On Friday 1st of June, the staff from the University of Stirling held their annual charity rounders tournament. This year, the staff decided to donate the proceeds to Start Up Stirling and we couldn’t be happier. Due to the unpredictable weather, it was held in the university gym hall and it was clear that the competitiveness between staff departments was intense. Out of the 8 teams competing only one could be victorious. After a very close fought match, including a sudden death decider, the Gannochy Allstars came out on top. All the members of the Allstars assured us that “they weren’t competitive or anything” and it was “only for the fun”. However, after witnessing their warm-ups and practising between games, we think they were more competitive than they were letting on! Massive thank you to everyone that took part and organised the event. All the money that we raised is going towards items for our Starter Packs which are really crucial! Here are some of the pictures from the event taken by our summer intern, Eilidh who was invited along to spectate.
Volunteer Week Board Members
Next up we are celebrating our superhero members of the board who are all volunteers. We interviewed Hazel and she has been loving it here at Start Up Stirling for 3 years!!
Tonne of Money
Its a well known fact that here at Start Up Stirling, we don’t do fundraising events in small measures. We always like the wackiest of ideas, or the biggest of goals so our latest campaign should be no surprise. We are aiming to raise a tonne of money!! That’s right, we are wanting to collect 1,000 kilos of money, all going towards our most needed items. Get involved with bake sales, raffles or something wacky to raise some money so we can raise a tonne of money and make a tonne of difference in Stirling.
Volunteer Week Drivers
This week is National Volunteers Week. To celebrate that, we are giving shout outs to our superhero volunteers. Today we interviewed Geoff, one of our lovely drivers who delivers our rural food deliveries:
Where to donate?
Here are the list of donation stations that we are regularly collecting from at this time:
Milky May
Each week we give out 140 litres of longlife / UHT milk to those we are supporting. We provide each family with 2 litres of long life milk and each single person 1 litre of long life milk a week.
TESCO BLUE COIN - UPDATE
We are 6 weeks into the vote and have got soooo many blue coins, thank you so much for your support.
WE NEED SAUCE
We have over 1700 bags of pasta in our warehouse. Pasta is a great donation - so versatile and can last a few meals for those we help.
Play it Forward
Last year, Stirling was granted its very own Monopoly board. You can visit Andy Murray’s gold post box, enjoy the scenery at Stirling Castle and finish off with a quiet night in at the Birds and Bee’s. Start Up Stirling are humbled and honoured to have been voted onto a Community Chest square on the board. Due to Stirling having such a vast amount of charities that all deserve recognition, we decided to start a new campaign, moulding from the well known proverb, “Pay It Forward”. Our campaign -”Play It Forward”- involves each member of our office staff nominating a Stirlingshire charity of their choice and donating a board to that charity. The board could be used for clients of the charity or to sell on as part of a fundraising raffle or tombola. It was totally up to the charity how to best use the board and we are so happy to have created this campaign.