After all our preparation and hard work the day of the
Positivity Treasure hunt finally arrived. I was up bright and early to collect
some bread rolls from Brumby’s for our sausage sizzle and made my way to the
Swan Valley the location of the hunt.
My job leading up to the treasure hunt was to hand out flyers
and promote the event, email day cares and invite them to the event as well as
organising the stage and dance acts. Kristal and I were also in charge of
scouting for volunteers and I managed to convince some of my friends to come
along for the day.
After calling numerous amounts of stage companies asking for
a in kind donation of stages and other equipment, I was unlucky in finding a
stage as most companies did not want to make such a large donation.
On the day everything ran pretty smoothly and we were all
really happy at how it turned out. It was really nice to see everyone joining
in and I loved teaching the little kids about positivity as we handed out
positivity show bags with tips about how to be positive.
We received some really good feedback from those who attended
the event as well as some constructive criticism. After the treasure hunt my
intern team and I reported to the office with our campaign manager Jessica and
the owner of the AELC Tracey to compile a list of pros and cons of how we think
the event went and what we could do better next time.
As a group we said that overall we thought the event ran
smoothly, however we thought it was important to address some constructive
criticism as we would like this event to be a yearly one make it as successful
as possible.
We thought that we could have started organising and
promoting the event a lot early than we did and maybe even using the money that
we raised at the quiz night to publish an advertisement in the newspaper,
to make more people aware of the event
and the campaign itself.
After arriving at the Swan Valley we realised that we had
forgotten to put a finish time on the hunt instructions and some participants
were unaware of what time it finished and arrived at locations after the
activities were packed up.
Personally I would love to be involved even in a small way in
the organisation of the event next year if it does continue as it was a great
experience.
