Arnside Days for Girls

This cause was part of International Women's Day Race
This unique race URL is https://ecoracing.co/cause/arnside-days-for-girls-2025/

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 International Women's Day virtual balloon race, supporting a wide range of charities, will "launch" beside Emmeline Pankhurst's statue in St Peter's Square, Manchester, at 12 noon on Tuesday 8th March 2022, 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 the international Days for Girls 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 kits, 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 £4, and £3.088 of this comes directly to Arnside Days for Girls. 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. It's an entertaining, and totally contactless, way to support our work.

Our fundraising target is: £500

Gross monies raised so far: £212

Supporters so far: 25

Tagged in: Days for Girls DFG DfG Arnside Stitch in Time Stitchintime Reusable sanitary protection Menstrual health Girls Women

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Top 20 balloons within cause

  • #1 PMD Silverdale 2: travelled 1,417.51km FINISHED
    Race position: 1
    Cause position: 1

  • #2 AGD Silverdale 2: travelled 1,412.99km FINISHED
    Race position: 2
    Cause position: 2

  • #3 AGD Silverdale 1: travelled 1,181.37km FINISHED
    Race position: 14
    Cause position: 3

  • #4 PMD Silverdale 1: travelled 1,177.88km FINISHED
    Race position: 16
    Cause position: 4

  • #5 Rosss racer: travelled 1,071.32km FINISHED
    Race position: 36
    Cause position: 5

  • #6 Balloon: travelled 1,051.29km POPPED
    Race position: 40
    Cause position: 6

  • #7 Balloon: travelled 918.46km FINISHED
    Race position: 77
    Cause position: 7

  • #8 RWH: travelled 905.32km POPPED
    Race position: 78
    Cause position: 8

  • #9 Balloon: travelled 886.60km FINISHED
    Race position: 84
    Cause position: 9

  • #10 Balloon: travelled 799.74km FINISHED
    Race position: 97
    Cause position: 10

  • #11 Balloon: travelled 681.38km FINISHED
    Race position: 167
    Cause position: 11

  • #12 Golokwati : travelled 674.66km POPPED
    Race position: 174
    Cause position: 12

  • #13 Hohoe: travelled 654.06km POPPED
    Race position: 193
    Cause position: 13

  • #14 DaisieTaylors Version: travelled 635.06km FINISHED
    Race position: 220
    Cause position: 14

  • #15 Balloon: travelled 629.38km FINISHED
    Race position: 224
    Cause position: 15

  • #16 Sky Blue: travelled 617.08km FINISHED
    Race position: 243
    Cause position: 16

  • #17 Balloon: travelled 609.06km FINISHED
    Race position: 256
    Cause position: 17

  • #18 Ginty: travelled 594.38km FINISHED
    Race position: 313
    Cause position: 18

  • #19 Go Girl: travelled 593.50km FINISHED
    Race position: 317
    Cause position: 19

  • #20 Imran: travelled 591.73km FINISHED
    Race position: 326
    Cause position: 20



Supporter Balloons (53)

  • PMD Silverdale 2 joined the race on December 10, 2021, 12:00 AM
    Cause position: 1
    Race position: 1

  • AGD Silverdale 2 joined the race on December 10, 2021, 12:00 AM
    Cause position: 2
    Race position: 2

  • AGD Silverdale 1 joined the race on December 10, 2021, 12:00 AM
    Cause position: 3
    Race position: 14

  • PMD Silverdale 1 joined the race on December 10, 2021, 12:00 AM
    Cause position: 4
    Race position: 16

  • Rosss racer joined the race on January 14, 2022, 5:53 PM
    Cause position: 5
    Race position: 36

  • Balloon joined the race on February 19, 2022, 11:30 PM
    Cause position: 6
    Race position: 40

  • Balloon joined the race on February 5, 2022, 12:23 PM
    Cause position: 7
    Race position: 77

  • RWH joined the race on January 25, 2022, 6:33 PM
    Cause position: 8
    Race position: 78

  • Balloon joined the race on March 6, 2022, 9:45 AM
    Cause position: 9
    Race position: 84

  • Balloon joined the race on February 28, 2022, 10:07 AM
    Cause position: 10
    Race position: 97