Event Day...

Hi,

It was event day yesterday for the HBF Run for a Reason. I was so excited, my second event in as many months. I think I was even more excited because of the tireless effort I had put in over the months from February to now. I was pleased when the event went of without a hitch and all participants had a great time.

Throughout the campaign I was able to go the monthly meetings held at HBF headquarters and log all data into rather organised spreadsheets (If I don't say so myself). Lifeline WA were holding a competition to increase fundraising and create an incentive, this is also where I came in. It was my responsibility to write up the terms and conditions and make sure they were clearly stated to all participants and posted online. I had to admit this was actually fun, it was tedious but something different from database work, what was better, was that Melissa barley had to edit them.

Although event day has been and gone, this does not mean the work is done. Fundraising still goes on for up to one month after the event and Lifeline WA's competition does not end until the 10th of June, this probably means we will not be done with HBF for at least the next month.

Along with working on the HBF Run, I have also been working on the BDSC, Lifeline WA's pinnacle event of the year. My tasks for the BDSC are EDM's and the wine wall, basically I am the one who writes up the EDM's and send them to the email database, I have also been researching the 1920's (so many interesting things happened in the 20's) so I can introduce fun facts of the 20's to the EDM. As well as EDM's I have also been working on the wine wall for the BDSC, I have been making cold calls and researching numerous wineries to gain donations of cartons of wine for the wine wall. Cold calling is very scary and I can safely say that it is a rather less enjoyable task I have to do. As much as I don't like it, I will admit it is great experience to which I am grateful for.

Till next time...

Regards,
Karla Cavalli