There
is about £65,000 in the fund raising section of the
Building Together account at this point in time and we have a lot of varied
events to look forward to between now and Christmas.
One wet Saturday morning at the end of May found me toiling up Ben Nevis with a lot of other folk to raise money for Building Together. As I climbed, the thought came to me that fund raising is somewhat akin to the ascent of the Ben in that there is an incredibly high summit or target to be reached and striven for. We looked down through the mist and murk that day and could see that we had come a long way. We then looked up into what seemed like infinity, at the coloured specks of waterproofed humanity who were toiling two thousand or so feet above us, across the face of the mountain and it was painfully obvious that we still had a long way to go.
It rained on us during our journey, sometimes heavily, and often we could not see much, but, from time to time the conditions would improve and the sprits would lighten. Fund-raising has its highs and lows— sometimes it feels as if we are pushing boulders uphill and we all get a bit downhearted. Other times, after an event that has been a thundering financial success, when we have shared a great deal of fellowship and given a lot of folk pleasure (Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat springs to mind here) then we certainly feel that the sun has come out.
At the end of that day in May, dog-tired and every muscle in my lower body either numb or screaming and with some spectacular bruises coming out, I eased myself off the mountain. I slumped on the bridge at the end of the walk in the evening sunshine and felt the beginning of a warm glow of achievement We hadn't climbed the highest mountain in the land without effort and grind and some pain. We won't raise a million pounds plus without a certain amount of the same either but at the end of the day, when we have raised it and the first brick has been laid, it will be a wonderful, wonderful feeling! Until then, borrowing Delma's words "it's onwards and upwards".
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17:04:07 Wednesday, 26 October 2005
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