Just adding up the cash we made from the raffle at our Champagne & Shopping Evening for Red Nose Day a couple of weeks ago. It was £28 something so I’ve rounded it up to £30. Thanks to everyone who came along and bought raffle tickets and generally enjoyed the evening here in Devon. Looking on the Comic Relief website, there are lots of way to pay in your money. I think I’ll pop into town and pay it into the post office.

£30 doesn’t sound like much does it, but it all helps. From helping a child growing up with domestic violence, a dad living with mental health problems or a lonely older person with dementia living down the road in the UK, to supporting orphans and desperately poor communities in Africa – this cash really does make a difference to their lives. £30 could pay to take a young carer on an outward bounds activity day, giving them a much-needed break from their caring duties and allowing them to simply be children having fun.

Just £10 could pay for a young person living with domestic violence at home to talk to a counsellor in a safe non-judgemental environment, to help them cope with their traumatic experience.

£15 could pay for two months’ worth of basic provisions which give an orphaned child in South Africa the chance to go to school rather than have to work or walk miles a day to fetch water.

£20 could buy clothes and toys for children who have nothing after fleeing their home with their mum because of domestic violence.

£25 could pay for a hot, nutritious lunch for over 600 children living in extreme poverty in Zambia.

Also unlike some charities which take a percentage of the donation to cover administration – Comic Relief has a promise “For every pound the charity gets directly from the public a pound goes to helping transform the lives of people living with poverty and social injustice”.

If you were wondering – the total raised so far this year by Comic Relief is £65, 699, 850. Apparently over 50 million Red Noses have been bought over the years – remember The Hands Nose, The Tomato Nose, The Colour Changing Nose, The Shaggy Nose and The Nose That Grows?!

I think RND is every two years so I might organise a fair for the next one and try to raise lots more, as it’s such a good cause.