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The Mumsnet Christmas Appeal: let’s raise some money for the Meningitis Research Foundation in honour of CatThiefKeith

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JustineMumsnet · 01/12/2017 13:03

Hello all,

A merry December 1 to you all: to kick off the Christmas season (sorry but there’s just no avoiding it any longer) we’re pleased to announce the launch of this year’s Mumsnet Christmas fundraiser.

As some of you will hopefully remember, last Christmas you all raised money for Women’s Aid and Refuge, and we at MNHQ doubled the donations.

This year we’ll be raising money for the Meningitis Research Foundation, in honour of CatThiefKeith, a huge character much beloved of her fellow MNers (and of MNHQ), who died suddenly earlier this year.

As with last year’s appeal, we’ll double donations up to £10,000.

We know this is an expensive time of year, but any donation at all will be greatly appreciated and WILL make a difference.

Please have a look at this page for more information about the Meningitis Research Foundation and what they do.

We’ll keep you updated with running totals and we’ll also host a guest post from MRF.

Please click here to donate if you can. We’re looking forward to helping MRF this Christmas and we’re especially happy we can do so in CTK’s honour.

Thanks for reading everyone - wishing you all a happy and peaceful Christmas.

Thanks Xmas Smile
Justine

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JustineMumsnet · 04/12/2017 07:45

@Jaffalong

Could you including 'in honour of CatThiefKeith in the title? It might motivate more people to donate to this worthy cause.

Yes we'll do that - thanks for the suggestion Jaffa

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RowanMumsnet · 04/12/2017 13:47

@loveyouradvice

Really great thing to do... bit confused though why the target on the website is only £3,000 when you're doubling up to £10,000???? Surely the target should be £10,000? or even more given the power and generosity of Mumsnetters.....

Hello

You're quite right, we really want to hit £10k - but the advice in fundraising (as far as we know - some of you may know better!) is to start with a lower, more achievable target and then raise it if you're lucky enough to hit the lower target.

I think the idea is that £10k looks pretty overwhelming and individual donors may not feel that their £5 (or however much they're able to give) will make much of an impact on a target that large.

(Please rest assured that we very much treasure every £5 donated, and indeed every £1 donated)

Thanks to all who've chipped in so far!

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BojanaMumsnet · 21/12/2017 12:26

Hi everyone,

Thanks very, very much to everyone who has donated - we're really pleased to say we've (almost) hit our target! We've raised £2,999.27 so far, so we'll increase the target to £4,000 and hope we can raise even more money for this brilliant charity Xmas Smile

Thanks again for supporting our appeal, we're grateful for every £1 given. Flowers

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BojanaMumsnet · 29/12/2017 10:37

Hello,

Thank you to everyone who gave money to our Christmas appeal - we've raised £3,374.27! I'll post here again to let you know that we've made our donation matching this. Xmas Smile

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BojanaMumsnet · 05/01/2018 11:56

Hello - we've just made our donation and the total amount of money raised for the Meningitis Research Foundation is £6,748.54! Thanks so much to everyone who donated and shared the appeal, we really appreciate your support. Flowers

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