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Holidays Are Coming - Update! And Happy Christmas Jumper Day.
Hey guys,
Lots of you supported our designer James' recent blog post regarding our Holidays Are Coming Jumper so we just wanted to give you all an update!
For those of you who missed it, we found a very similar jumper to the one we designed available for sale at www.Boohoo.com and so James blogged about it. We were totally overwhelmed by all the support from you guys - our lovely customers and readers so a huge, huge thanks to everyone who got in touch.
BooHoo got in touch the same day the blog was posted and asked us to remove our original blog post while they investigated which we duly did (in case you wondered why it had disappeared.) BooHoo said they would remove the item from sale while they checked what had happened at their end.
We've now resolved things with Boohoo and as a gesture of goodwill, Boohoo has agreed to pay us a royalty which we will be donating to Save The Childrens Christmas Jumper Day.
They have also agreed to send the remaining stock to a charity of our choice so we will be donating these to the amazing One25 - a Bristol-based charity, specialising in enabling women to break free from street sex-work, addiction and other life-controlling issues and build new, independent lives.
Who'd have thunk it, Team TruffleShuffle raised £12,000 in ONE DAY for charity!
Two weeks ago, eight of us TruffleShufflers took a day out from our desk jobs to take part in an Apprentice style "Director's Challenge" for the lovely one25 charity. The aim of the day was to work through a list of challenges in order to raise as much money as humanly possible in an eight hour day for the charity, which aims to support street sex workers in changing their lives for the better - by giving up this street work, finding new jobs, new homes and ridding themselves of addictions. One25 provides an outreach van which engages street workers at night on the streets of Bristol, providing advice, support and all the details they need to feel welcome at the charity's drop-in centre. At the drop in centre, the women are welcome to come for a cuppa, do their laundry, meet counsellors, doctors and addiction specialists - with the ultimate aim of giving them the best possible chance to step away from the streets into a safer, healthier life.
Our Director's Challenges were as follows:
1. Recruit as many people as we could to run the Bristol Half Marathon or perform a sponsored SkyDive in aid of the charity. Each of these people would have to raise a minimum of £200 for one25 and that amount would go down on our scorecards.
2. Sell as many cake cook books as we could for £5 each.
3. Gather donated prizes for one25 to sell at their charity auction in November.
4. Collect corporate donations to the charity, trying our hardest to secure £125 from each generous donor.
5. Persuade people to text smaller donations to a special text number setup for the day.
Do your bit for One25 + get a free ticket to see Ed Sheeran in an exclusive charity concert!
A few weeks ago, TruffleShuffle was contacted by the Bristol based charity, One25.
A small charity with big ambitions, their mission is to reach out to women trapped in street sex work, supporting them to break free and build new lives away from violence, poverty and addiction. One25 gives them the intensive support needed to step away from the streets: whether for crisis support with the help of their night van, an afternoon at their drop-in centre, or permanently with the help of one-to-one caseworkers and their new mother and baby home, Naomi House.
In order to continue their amazing work and help more vulnerable women and their families, One25 are running a brilliant fundraising campaign called 'Give it up for One25'... - a challenge for people to give something up for 125 hours OR 125 days from 4th November 2011 or 3rd March 2012 in return for sponsorship or donations to this amazing charity.
To help promote the campaign, they asked us whether we would help them to design and make their campaign tee which we were honoured to do! Our designer James worked with the One25 team to create a range of designs based round the charities logo and the 'Give It Up' theme. The charities facebook fans then chose their favourite and plumped for this design (good choice guys!)
As well as designing the tee, the TruffleShuffle team will all be doing their best to give something up (hair straighteners, coffee, moaning and chocolate are some of the things we'll be sacrificing!) in order to help raise much needed funds for the charity! Our favourite though is One25 fundraiser Lu Willott who is giving up NOT wearing our campaign t-shirt! Yes, she'll be wearing it wherever she goes for four months, even on Christmas day and at a black-tie dinner! Good on you girl.
Anyone can take part in this fundraising event so if you guys fancy doing your bit and helping One25 reach out to even more women in need......