One of the ideas that was thrown out for fundraising was a jumble and art sale. I loved this idea, but as I was working on the zine and the page, I didn't have much time to help with the organisation. However, I had a lot of old clothing/wigs/nik naks that I donated. I had to consider the items I was donating, as I didn't wanna crowd the table with items that wouldn't sell. I tried to choose items that went well with the 'style' of our class - cosplay, wigs, 'nerdy' things - that people might ascociate with our course. It also meant there was more cohesion on the table (as it was more similar to the stuff other people donated). As well as this, I donated all my current self-published books and art prints/badges/stickers for the art table, as I don't plan to go to any more cons, so had no selling use for them anymore.
I helped out through the afternoon on the jumble sale table, and packed up the table at the end of the day. We raised about £230 - which we were super proud of considering that our target for the sale was only £40. When we got back to the studio, Gareth suggested keeping the items in the studio for the first and second years to look into, so we set the remaining jumble sale items up in a spare room in the studio and a couple of us helped out and set up a lil 'pay what you want' box. This earned us around another £60! We were super happy with the success of this day, as our full fundraising target was £300 and we almost reached that with the jumble/art sale alone!
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