Arnside Days for Girls

This cause was part of Christmas Shopping Race
This unique race URL is https://ecoracing.co/cause/arnside-days-for-girls-2000/


Buy an imaginary balloon (or several), enjoy tracking its progress on maps for a week, and help us to help women and girls. You might even win a prize, too.

The "Christmas Shopping" virtual balloon race, supporting a wide range of charities, will "launch" at Tiffany's, New York, at 12 noon on Wednesday 1st December 2021, and you can buy balloons up to half an hour before that time. You can choose the shape, colour(s), and pattern of your balloon, write a name or message on it, and alter the thickness of rubber and amount of helium which affect how it "flies" (different weather patterns at different heights), and then watch its progress for a week, updated every half hour. All totally imaginary (except the weather data), no litter or harm to wildlife, no use of the earth's precious helium, just a very entertaining computer programme! At the end of the week, there are prizes of £500, an iPad, and 10 x £10 book tokens, for the balloons which "fly" furthest (as the crow flies).

The Arnside Days for Girls / Stitch-in-Time team is part of an international organisation which works to increase access to menstrual products and vital health information for women and girls around the world. We meet twice a month to sew reusable sanitary protection, with an associated knitting group making items for people in need. We need to raise funds for materials (including a specialised waterproof breathable layer) and other expenses. Read more about Days for Girls UK at https://www.daysforgirls.org/uk/.

Each balloon costs you £3, and £2.35 of this comes directly to help our work. You can even buy a balloon for someone else - you pay, you get a code to send them, they buy the balloon and they have the fun of tracking it: a little extra postage-free present for someone, perhaps?

Our fundraising target is: £200

Gross monies raised so far: £48

Supporters so far: 6

Tagged in: Days for girls DFG Arnside reusable sanitary protection Days for Girls Women Girls Menstruation StichinTime

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Supporter Balloons (16)

  • Rudolph joined the race on December 1, 2021, 8:35 AM

  • Elf 1 joined the race on November 26, 2021, 9:03 PM

  • Elf 2 joined the race on November 26, 2021, 9:03 PM

  • Elf 3 joined the race on November 26, 2021, 9:03 PM

  • D4Gheart joined the race on November 26, 2021, 9:55 AM

  • Rudy joined the race on November 26, 2021, 9:55 AM

  • Snowy joined the race on November 26, 2021, 9:55 AM

  • Santa joined the race on November 26, 2021, 9:55 AM

  • Jolly joined the race on November 26, 2021, 9:55 AM

  • Cheers joined the race on November 20, 2021, 3:27 PM