Raising money

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Fri Nov 04, 16 11:06 am

Hi Guys,

I've put my car up for sale on a various Facebook pages but unfortunately time is of the essence and was wondering if anyone has had any luck with Raffling the sale of a car? 100 tickets at Â£100 each would get me the 10k I'm hoping for the car or break it down to more tickets with cheaper tickets.

If anyone has any experience or advice I'm all ears.

Now for the reason I'm selling it.......

My partner was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis 9yrs ago, at present there is no cure for this auto immune disease but there is a treatment that can halt it in its tracks but they don't offer it in this country (well they do but in very limited numbers, due to funding). She has been accepted by a specialist hospital in Mexico to undergo treatment in April 2017 but the cost is Â£45,000. The treatment is called HSCT and it basically comprises of stem cell replacement and Chemotherapy. They harvest her stem cells, destroy her immune system with Chemotherapy, then replace the stem cell which start to rebuild her immune system. The process effectively reboots her immune system. The success rate is approx 85% and is as close to a cure as you can get but she will be away from our family for 28 days with her mum as her carer in Mexico. Then when she comes home, she will be homebound for approx 2 months except for blood tests and bi monthly low dose Chemotherapy to rid the body of any remaining cells. Its pretty brutal but it is the lesser of two evils.

So the sale of my car will go a long way to getting her on her journey and allowing her to grow old with our children.

Thank you for your time.

Post by **TyreFryer** » Fri Nov 04, 16 4:31 pm

Sorry to hear this Bryan. Have you looked at crowd funding? I saw an article on the local TV news at lunchtime about a young woman who'd raised the money for equipment for her disability in a relatively short time. I don't have any experience of it but thought it might be worth mentioning.

GJUK · Post by **GJUK** » Fri Nov 04, 16 4:40 pm

Sorry to hear that

I'd be happy to donate some spare cash to you via the above for sure, I would think a lot of the members on here would also.

All the best,
Jon

latil · Post by **latil** » Fri Nov 04, 16 5:20 pm

Take a good look at crowd funding,a guy on Grand Designs this week raised Â£60K for building his house using the method.

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Fri Nov 04, 16 5:36 pm

We are currently crowd funding too.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/poppy-raynes

Bilko · Post by **Bilko** » Fri Nov 04, 16 7:06 pm

Best of luck, donation made!

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Fri Nov 04, 16 7:37 pm

Don't have any knowledge of this Bryan but donation made and hope all goes well,

Cheers Steve

GJUK · Post by **GJUK** » Fri Nov 04, 16 8:09 pm

Donated, all the very best.

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Fri Nov 04, 16 9:10 pm

Thank you for your donations, you are very kind.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Fri Nov 04, 16 9:11 pm

Very welcome Bryan and just hope all goes as you plan...sure you will get there

MilesnMiles · Post by **MilesnMiles** » Fri Nov 04, 16 10:18 pm

Good luck to you and yours, Bryan. I've added a little more.

kma176 · Post by **kma176** » Sat Nov 05, 16 8:46 pm

Good luck Bryan-donation made
Have you advertised your raffle on here??
Kev

Charger · Post by **Charger** » Sat Nov 05, 16 11:23 pm

sorry to read this Bryan, I've added a little more, best wishes to you all, good luck with the fund raising and of course all the best for the treatment

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Sun Nov 06, 16 6:32 am

Thank you all for the donations.

I haven't listed the Raffle yet, I was talking it through with my brother yesterday.

Post by **TyreFryer** » Sun Nov 06, 16 12:17 pm

Bryan, do you have a Facebook page for this, maybe we could ask Karen to put a share of it on the MMA FB page as well?