Advice from Crown Woods School, London!

Hello we are Crown Woods School,

Over the past 2 months we had been having meetings on how we can raise as much money as possible for the British Red Cross and get the British Red Cross well known. We had to think about what fundraising events we could put on for the school and its students.

Throughout the challenge we have had a number of difficulties. One of which was deciding on what events to do. We as a group debated and agreed on what the best ideas were and if we could achieve them.

Another problem we had come across was how many people would turn up to our meetings. One week would have 7 turn up and the next we would have just 2 people. To succeed in this challenge you need a good amount of business men and women to turn up week in week out.

Trust Youth are much appreciative of the money raised by all school, but what they really want for us young people to understand what the Red Cross do and how much trouble they go to succeed their aims and goals.

In our opinion these are the main points to have a successful team for this challenge;

- Make sure you have a certain amount of team members that will turn up week in week out.

- Once your group have written down the activities that are possible to do, stick with 2 or 3 of them and focus your whole group on that task.

- Make sure you have a good, reliable leader who wants to win and can motivate everyone.

Jamie, Crown Woods Trust Youth team