The Miracle Project

It’s been a while since I last blogged, and A LOT has changed!

By chance some miracle happened and Emma, Alice and I stuck gold with an idea for a project whilst thinking about fundraising and budgeting. We were given funding criteria and had to pitch an idea for a proposal to Liz and Helen including the budget (which slightly got left behind because the actual concept of the project took over in our priorities!)

Our project concepts aim is to enhance cultural cohesion and awareness of other cultures between different sections of the oxford community. Through the project we hope to celebrate and honour diversity and cross cultural interaction. At the moment the project is in the VERY early stages of development.

Were hoping to have some preliminary meetings with possible partners in early March once our idea is more concrete and we have had a few consultations with possible participants.

Time is ticking on, at a quite horrific speed, and our project is slowly picking up momentum, so I will keep you up to date with developments more regularly from now on!

The Fun Raiser

Last night, I volunteered at an event organised by OYAP. The Fun Raiser 2010, an evening of comedy in the aim to raise awareness and money for the charity. Some of the volunteers and myself started off by going out and handing flyers. It was interesting to see people’s reactions. Some people avoided us, some people didn’t really care and others were actually interested and asked questions. After handing out some flyers, we went back to the venue. What a beautiful venue! The Sheldonian theatre is simply stunning. It is such a grand building, with wonderful acoustics. I’ve helped at a couple of events at this venue and I have always loved the acoustics in there.

When we got to the venue Liz McCaffry, OYAP‘s general manager, gave us a quick briefing of what our tasks were. I was on box office with Caroline and Becca and the others were stewarding. Being on box office was nice. I always like seeing all the faces coming in. Seeing what kind of people come to events like this. It was good to see some people came because of the leaflets we had handed out just a couple of hours earlier. A lovely lady also told us she came to the event because she heard about it on the radio! She was the first one there she must have been really keen! I hope she had a good laugh. Everything on box office went according to plan, there were no problems and everything went smoothly. We also sold lots of raffle tickets which was great.

We then sat down to enjoy the show. Huw Thomas was our host for the evening. I really liked him!.He did a really good job at getting the audience involved and getting us in the mood for big giggles. The acts of the evening were Otiz Cannelonni, Mark Maier, Steve Best and Rob Deering. My personal favourite was the last act, Rob Deering. He was hilarious and I loved his singing. Steve Best confused me more than anything. I was thinking “what is going on here….” but then again, he made me laugh a lot! All in all, I’m very happy I got to be part of it even if it was helping in a small way. It was nice seeing the crowd have such a good time. It was also a good opportunity to mingle and meet new people.

At the end of the event we had a lovely group photo taken and packed up. Then went off to the pub! What a great evening. I look forward to many more events with OYAP.

Thanks you to all that helped and thank you to OYAP for putting in such an awsome event

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