A little help from the beautiful ones

With only £600 to the final total I was contemplating lots of ways to raise the remaining funds, a cake sale, rattling a tin on the street, selling a day's holiday at work. But combined with a ridiculous work schedule as we set about relaunching the Macmillan website, the goal to reach £3100 before the end of September seemed just out of reach.

Recalling the wise words of those fundraisers who've come before me, I figured a little networking and reliance on old colleagues and friends couldn't hurt, and I managed to convince my flatmate (and ex-colleague) to hold a beauty sale at her office in aid of Macmillan. Now the fact that I used to work at one of the most glamorous publishing houses in the country certainly paid off, as the lovely girls at Conde Nast managed to buy up £545 worth of beauty products, all in the name of charity, bringing me just £34 off my target!

The moral of the story: go through your contact book and ask everyone you know to help if they can, you'll be amazed at what you might find and just how amazingly fabulous old friends and colleagues can be- thanks girls!