All bags re-packed with the extra items we required and the 'dear police officer' slips. Everything done up and ready to go!
So pleased with our efforts and the kind help and donations from everyone else, we couldn't have done it without you! You guys really are amazing, thank you all so much.
8 rucksacks for 8 homeless people, best Christmas gifts we could give this year, ever! Plus a bag of toiletries for Centre Point, including toothpastes and soap, a bag of boots, and four bags of spare clothes/hats/socks etc for the charities to fill their stock rooms with!
All currently held in my mums bathroom, ready for the event on Saturday at Portsmouth Watersports Centre. (Yes the bath is full of rucksacks!)
A Big thank you and well done to the amazing Joanne Tindle for organising this years event in Portsmouth - same time next year eh?! I can't be there Saturday, but mum is off to help for the day and of course take down our offerings.
So proud to be part of the event again with my Mum. To help people less fortunate than us, to give an amazing gift at Christmas and hopefully help make a difference to someone's life. Remember it's not about one person doing something big to change the world, but lots of people doing small things to get the change in motion.
Everyone deserves a home, somewhere to live, but some people don't have that opportunity. All it takes is a random act of kindness and for people to then pay that kindness forward, make this your random act of kindness... it's getting cold out there... have a warm heart.
Thank you all xxx
Quote from The Rucksack Project Website... (rucksackproject.org)
'THE INSPIRATION BEHIND IT
There are two films that really affected me and planted the seeds for The Rucksack Project. The first is Pay it Forward, the story of a young boy who, inspired by his teacher, comes up with an idea to change the world... by doing a big favour for three people, who must not pay back the favour, but pay it forward.. buy each doing three big favours for three more people... Random acts of kindness which grow expotentially into a movement of kindness that sweeps the nation.
The second film is Scrooged, the Bill Murray classic from 1989 following the well known Charles Dickins Christmas classic. In Murray's version, we see a homeless man who tragically freezes to death after leaving a homeless shelter. At the end of the film, Murray's character says "You can take an old blanket out of the closet and take it out and give it to someone.. you can make them a sandwich and say 'here!'"
The two things merged one fantastic day and the idea was born to fill a rucksack with stuff to get a lost soul through a freezing winter - something that would last longer than a bag of food or 50 pence.'
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