Madison's Fundraiser
The First Message
Madison reached out after seeing our post about our Easter Egg Drive, which we have set up to donate to the Kings College Hospital children's cancer wards and support the KCH Play Team who are helping care for the children spending Easter having life-saving treatment.
She stated that she was a 'Community Champion - a completely true and well deserved role after seeing all the work she has for others - at TESCO!
She reached out to ask if we would be happy for the store to set up an Easter Egg drop off point for our first-ever Easter egg drive and of course we jumped at the chance as having a big name like Tesco backing our corner/fundraising is absolutely huge for us.
What this means for us
The emotions we felt from this message truly went from shock and disbelief to excitement and really feeling like we have finally made a little breakthrough as a charity with the most extreme gratitude and appreciation for Madison who found us and reached out - becoming an immediate UC Superhero!
There are no words really to explain just how big this is for us and how thankful we are, not just for the potential easter egg donations but all the small wins that come with this - the additional awareness of who we are, the new people we can reach and all the people who have been affected by cancer that we will be able to help support in some form
They say not all hero’s wear capes and Madison is one of those people - her superpower is her huge heart ♥️
The Fundraising
From day one, the support this stand was receiving was incredible. With donations from workers at the store as well as customers we were already receiving regular updates from Madison and we were shocked!
We set a final collection date with Madison as Monday 14th April as we were planning on doing a total drop off to the KCH Play Team on April 16th and we didn't expect so much support.
March 31st was the first day of the stand being within the Old Kent Road Tesco store and by April 7th, we had a message to see if we could come and do an early pick up as the collections stand had been COMPLETELY FILLED!! We were so shocked with this as it had only been a week, we were really expecting that message to be a little update and not a message to come and collect.
The Collections
March 31st was the first day of the stand being within the Old Kent Road Tesco store and by April 7th, we had a message to see if we could come and do an early pick up as the collections stand had been COMPLETELY FILLED!!
We were so shocked by this as it had only been a week, we were really expecting that message to be a little update and not a message to come and collect.
Upon that collection we received a total of 140 small eggs, 28 large eggs, 4 activity packs and some extra goodies too! This was really incredible and meant 140 children outside of other donations were going to be receiving something from us this Easter which was really something so special to us, as well as all the special staff members within the KCH Play Team who help make the experience a little bit easier and more colourful for these little ones who are experiencing everyone's worst nightmare
On Tuesday, 15th April, we did our final collection and again we were absolutely blown away with the support from the workers and the community about the amount of donations we were still receiving off this one little collection stand.
Within this collection we gathered another 70 eggs making the overall total from Madison, Tesco and the local community 250 donations!!
We were truly astonished by the love and support provided by the community at Tesco and the biggest appreciation to Madison - without her, we wouldn't have half as many donations!