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Get Dring Mobile

From now until March 2010, some friends and I are taking on fundraising in aid of my close friend Mike from www.art-el.co.uk.
We are trying to raise £75,000, to fund the purchase of an adapted vehicle that Mike can drive.

Michael Dring was 23 years old when he broke his neck in a road traffic accident, resulting in paralysis from the upper chest down – medically he is classified as having a complete Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) resulting in Tetraplegia (level C6). Between April 2009 and April 2010, friends and family of Michael are attempting to raise money to put towards the purchase of an adapted car which will enable him to drive independently.

The Competition-
This is an easy and free to enter draw for some cracking Prints.

Prizes-

Heru- Mini Litho (kindly donated by Frankie)

Anthony Lister-Ani as Robin Diptych

SPQR-What’s the matter Charlie Brown ?

Cyclops - Teenage Spasm ,Invincible Magnets ,Schizophrenia(all 3 as a set)

To enter we would like you to register at

1. www.easyfundraising.org.uk

2. Enter your name and email address

3. Choose ‘Get Dring Mobile’ from the list of causes.

Then go to the following link

4. www.easyfundraising.org.uk/raise_funds_for_free/

Here you will find a list of companies that donate cash for free.

5. We would then like you to register with

Love Film (they offer a free 14 day trial and donate £8 to Get Dring Mobile)
You can cancel the membership before the end of the trial and it costs nothing.
To qualify for the donation you just have to receive and return one film.

Blockbuster (they offer a free 1 month trial and donate £6.25 to Get Dring Mobile)
You can cancel the membership before the end of the trial and it costs nothing.

To qualify for the donation you just have to receive and return one film.

6. You will receive a conformation of sale/donation email from www.easyfundraising.org.uk we would like you to forward that to us at

[e-mail]

For each email we receive with conformation of donation from Love Film and Blockbuster, we will enter you in the draw once.

There are other companies which you can sign up for free as well, some with high donations. Feel free to sign up for as many of these as possible.

Also each time you shop online if you go through www.easyfundraising.org.uk and you use a shop which is registered on the site they make a donation. The list of companies is huge, so please have a good look around.

The Competition draw date is Thursday 30th April

Feel free to ask any questions.

This is the first in a series of events which we are undertaking.

Please join our facebook group 'Get Dring Mobile'

thanks for your time Paul.

[Grubster]

anything else?

[Deleted]

it may look complicated, but it is really simple and only takes a few minutes .

[Deleted]

good luck with that slammer, have you tried to tap in to the grant schemes, i knew a disabled man who got well over 20K one year for a wet room with a hoist ect and he has also had cash for a van with lift ect

[Deleted]

We are exploring many different avenues of raising cash Topboy, approaching organisations that offer grants is a good idea and something we are planning.
thanks m8.

[Martin DK]

Great cause, and great prices. However, ths is for UK. people only I think.

Best of luck raising the money.

[Hugs]

Well done Slammer for the effort that's going in to helping Mike out.

Mike deserves all the help he can get and I urge you all to try and do what ever you can, maybe bid on a piece, perhaps sponser an event, take a nice piece of art from under your bed, you know, the piece that you love but the Mrs won't have that particular piece on the wall..donate it, do something nice today and in doing so helping one of the most generous , courageous, funny and just plain proper men you'll ever have the pleasure of helping.

I have the absolute pleasure of calling Mike a good close friend, I'm in Brisbane, he's in Bristol, You can help from where ever you are in the World, please do so if you can.

Best

Ian

[spiiiiiike]

Yes some good stuff. Good luck with it all!

[G-Man]

Good luck!

[Art-el]

My huge thanks to all that have voiced support and pledged prizes, support & sponsorship.


Truly humbled by this whole project so to see people donating money to benefit me has been very touching and admittedly a little strange. So a huge thanks to people for joining this group alone and taking an interest in this project and to these people who have pledged support of any kind then I thank you with immense sincerity.

When Paul and Damian (my good friends for around a quarter of a century!!) Approached me just before Christmas with their plans to start a year's fund-raising with the aim and goal being a fully adapted vehicle then I was and still am slightly stunned.

It was not something I accepted lightly or immediately with so many other worthy causes coming into my mind and seemingly more deserving. After a few days thoughts and soul-searching my criteria of worthiness boiled down to one basic fact and that was to what extent would this vehicle benefit me, thus giving a validation to the whole project. The answer was that a vehicle of this nature would COMPLETELY change my life, the quality of it and give me an independence that simply has not been an option for the last decade plus.

Peace
x

[pezlow]

Bless you mike - a very humble post from a very humble man. Very best of luck with this mate.

[Hugs]

Mar 16, 2009 20:51:45 GMT 1 pezlow said:

Bless you mike - a very humble post from a very humble man. Very best of luck with this mate.

Indeed

[Deleted]

even if you dont fancy entering the competition, please take a look at www.easyfundraising.org.uk its a great way of raising cash by doing just shopping online as normal.

we are also doing loads of other fundraising activities over the next 12 months or so. if anyone fancies doing something to help out, please pm me.
So far planned

Sponsored Sky dive April 10th

Golf Day at Knowle Golf Club July 2nd

Art Auction September

Sponsored Divizes to westminster canoe race (125 miles)

any suggestions welcome.

[Sacked...]

Just joined Love Film.Good luck with everything.

[Deleted]

thanks sacked, how long did the whole process take to complete?

[Art-el]

Thanks for the kind words & to those that have joined in the competition.

MASSIVE proof that www.easyfundraising.org.uk will help our cause immensely is that it has generated nearly £300 in the last 3 weeks!!

PLEASE encourage as many friends and family to use it as possible. It is a ridiculously easy sign up process & wether buying the weekly shopping, buying through Ebay, the list of retailers is huge.

Once signed up and selected the 'GetDringMobile' cause from the dropdown menu, every time you make your purchase through the Easy FR gateway then every retailer makes a donation.

[deckstar]

I'm all signed up and already started fund raising. I have had the pleasure of meeting mike, and he truly is a brilliant bloke! Lets get him mobile and maybe we can spray his new car at up fest

[Sacked...]

Mar 17, 2009 12:31:33 GMT 1 @slammer said:

thanks sacked, how long did the whole process take to complete?

Not long at all.You just have to wait a bit for aa confirmation email.Easy.

[Deleted]

thanks for signing up. now lets have some more of you doing the same please ;-).

[curiousgeorge]

BIG BUMP

You know how i feel about this Slammer, can't wait to cross the finishing line next year with you watching my back

[Deleted]

i can't have you challenging me on a public forum without taking up the challange. no fucking chance. i'll whip your ass.

[Heavyconsumer]

Mike's always seemed sound as a pound! One thing's for sure, he's got some teriffic friends! Well done Slammer and co'.

[curiousgeorge]

Mar 18, 2009 9:14:24 GMT 1 @slammer said:

i can't have you challenging me on a public forum without taking up the challange. no f**king chance. i'll whip your ass.

Put your money where your mouth is, on a public forum

[Deleted]

No amount of money would give me the satisfaction of crossing the finishing line in front of you.
Also I never gamble, i'd much rather give me money to good causes ;-).

[Deleted]

i'm not about to make a Geldof type' Give me your f**king money' type rant, but so far we have only recieved one conformation email.
come on sign up this, takes no time at all (is free) and you donate loads of money to this very worthy cause.

please sign up and then tell us you've done it on this thread to give us a bump .

[Martin DK]

Just an idea. Maybe people on here could pay something via paypal, maybe a couple of pounds per ticket or something like that. We are some from outside UK that cannot join these things you have mentioned above.

I think it a great cause, and the prizes is great.

[jellya]

More than happy to help this cause. Mrs Jelly and I are signed up on easyfundraising.org, She shops online a fair fair bit so should get some moneys to Mike that way ;D You've got my pledge as well Paul.

Come on folks let's get this target reached and passed asap.

[gwenie]

Signed up, got a great film .........bump

[Sacked...]

For those of you (maybe galleries ) that send parcels within uk and also abroad can sign up to Parcel Force through easyfundraising.

www.easyfundraising.org.uk/search_results/?ef_search=parcelforce

You can get discounts and mike gets a donation so it's win win.

Offer closes 31/03/09 so you'll have to be quick.

[Deleted]

make sure you foward the conformation of sale email to

[e-mail]