Time for a quick update on a reasonably eventful week in SBS-land. First of all, thanks a million to Charlie, Sophie and Ryan for organising the overlanding weekend up in Yorkshire - got a lot of great advice and was great to meet some of the other teams. I am a little concerned though, as our 500-mile round trip over 2 days meant I was a zombie at work on Monday - which doesn't bode well for the road ahead!
A quick glance to your left will tell you that we've pretty much hit our fund-raising target! Am amazed and stunned at everyone's generosity - thank you to each and every person who has donated to Go Help. To have one of the major milestones achieved with over 2 weeks still to go beyond our wildest expectations and means we can focus on equipping the van and taking care of the kind of dull admin that is necessary to make sure our bills are paid etc when we're away.
If anyone is in the area tomorrow, we are having a fund-raising / leaving do in the Prince Albert, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton. Hopefully we'll be able to get some more money for the charity and perhaps people might feel able to contribute to some of our petrol expenses as well. Unfortunately, Brixton being the kind of place it is, there is a strong possibility that 75% of the population has buggered off to some music festival in Somerset for the weekend; however given that we are combining our night with the regular and popular Offline club night we're hopeful there may be a few people in through the door. Finally for now, we appear to have finally got some equipment donated to us! The power of the internet connected me to receptive companies as far afield as Worcester and Manchester who loved what we are doing and have promised us a tyre repair kit and a new wing mirror respectively. I will of course give the relevant people a proper write up once in the very near future, but in the meantime - thank you. You wouldn't believe what a boost your generosity has given us.
Two weeks on Saturday!!!! Waaaah!
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