Charity Bazaar at work! Ideas and help needed

[Jelliebabe]

HI Guys

Looking to pick your brains for an Idea I've had. we are having a big "Summer Charity Bazaar" at work in aid of The Cornelia De Lang Syndrome Foundation which sadly one of our employees children suffers from.

Its meant to be a fun day with a bring and buy and a food offering, a sections to sell your services (manicures, expertise etc) and I thought about doing growing kits with seeds in and how to cards and a list of kit that you would need (like pots, compost etc)

I know what bright sparks you are so wondered what your thoughts were or if you had ideas of what to include.

I thought of getting brown bags and theming them like

The salad bag
The herb bag
Vampire slayer bag (garlic obvs!)
Gen veg
Bee/wildlife kit
Bean bag!

Any ideas welcome

Do any of the Mods think that the Seed circle/bank might like to be involved/donate?

Thanks Guys

Esther/Jellie

[Tinabalerina]

Hey jelliebabe,

i think its a great idea, people dont seem to think of gardening bits as pressies for kids but they love to see things starting to grow.
I think you've pretty much got it covered as in what to put in the bags, although you could stick in a little starter pot, they are really cheap to buy and you dont want the kit to go to waste coz they've got nothing to grow it in. Maybe a little bag of compost too, just enough for 1 pot.

Good luck, hope its a huge success and loads of money is raised.

[Jelliebabe]

Thanks that's two good ideas! Maybe put the stuff into pots instead of bags :-) potty about veg! :-)

[AkionTotocha]

Things that children can eat, with information cards in big letters and smaller words.

Nasturtiums and Pansies. Altus carrots and cut-and-come-again salad leaves. Pumpkins and Sunflowers are always a favourite with kids. I think Sunflowers more than salad leaves... Maybe if you can find some coir disks or blocks to throw in, it would be great too, but I think a pot would be great at least. You can pick them up pretty cheaply too, even from the pound shop etc.

[Scarlet]

When is the Bazaar? You may have missed the window for some seed planting - they won't want to keep it until next year to plant.

[Jelliebabe]

The bazaar is on the 4th July - I know that the timing isn't great for most veg but I thought maybe salad leaves and some herbs/flowers would still be okay, garlic would be fine, and the fun day is for our staff not children as such. I will be bringing in my leftover toms and chillis... Not going to drown in them this year! LOL