On Friday 4th March we went along to Leeds Rhino's home game to have a bucket collection.

It all started last year when we were looking for as many chances as we could to raise the vital funds we need to enable us to continue to support bereaved parents and families.

We are always looking for different venues and often we look for the weird and wonderful things, recently we have been looking into a fire walking event or an indoor sky dive.

When the Rhino's got back to us saying we could have a bucket collection evening we were quite excited. This was one of our first major event venues and made us realise that we have finally made it into the realm of known charities.

We have been publicising the event and getting it out to as many people as possible.

When I woke on Friday to be greeted with the sight of white snow everywhere I initially felt a little worried, thinking that the event may even be cancelled. I needn't have worried though. The adage that Yorkshire people are tough in cold weather definitely came through. 
The snow turned to rain during the day and by mid afternoon I knew we had an event.

We all met up at the Carnegie Stadium at 5pm, buckets in hands, new charity T-Shirts and Fleeces on. Altogether there were 9 adults and 3 children. 

The weather was definitely not on our side and despite being wrapped up the cold was piercing.
My granddaughters, all aged below 10 were amazing, they didn't let the weather put them off rattling their buckets and looking cute to get donations.

They enjoyed getting to have their faces painted and even got to share a pic with Ronnie the Rhino

Two of our volunteer bucket shakers, Emilie & Megan, got so cold they resorted to buying socks and gloves from the supporters club. They never gave up though, they carried on, with smiles on their faces and buckets in their hands.

Sam and Kiera were 2 more of our collectors and they to stuck at it despite the cold. They spent sometime inside where the supporters were and managed to get involved with the face painting and getting their pictures taken by Heart Yorkshire.

We finally finished our evening just before 8pm, we headed back to collect all the buckets together and count the donations.

It was great to find out that we had managed to raise £115, it always amazes us how generous people can be.

Thank you to everyone at Leeds Rhino's and all the supporters who generously donated to our cause.