The team at the start of Byte Night

We are starting the evening with a Quiz at Ernst & Young to numb our brains before the numbing cold...

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Richard in his nightcap

One Day to go! One thousand pounds!

The fantastic news with one day to go is a £1000 donation from Sybase!
We are also getting in a steady stream of last minute donations. Keep them coming!
This takes us to:
Fundraising target: £5,000.00
Donations so far: £ 4,655.00
Total donated online: £3,460.00
Amount raised offline: £1,195.00

Gift Aid plus supplement: £552.82


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Storm Warning for Friday?

Steve Ranger, Editor of Silicon.com, who is joining us on Friday. has kindly featured us again: http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39295169,00.htm

As for the weather on Friday Byte Night I've just been told that Subtropical Storm Laura is heading our way so we will earn our sponsorship!

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Through £3000...

Our total of online donations with one week to go before ByteNight on Friday October 3 is £2960. However with over £200 of cash sponsorship we now have £3175. If you have sponsored us, by whatever method, thank you! If you still are thinking about it then either go to

http://www.justgiving.com/siliconcomrades or you can just give us the cash. Please Gift Aid it if you can - so if you are giving cash then ask for the sponsorship form. Gift Aid adds to sponsorship by 28% if you are a UK taxpayer so it has already given us £458 of additional fundraising. (not quite as much as Bradford & Bingley got)

But every donation helps: just £5 pays for emergency overnight support for a young person living on the street.

You total sponsorship of our team so far could keep the doors of an emergency drop-in centre for young homeless people open for seven weeks. Thank you!

How your donations could help

£5 could pay for emergency overnight support for a young person living on the street

£15 could provide a bath, three emergency meals, laundry, personal items and emergency medication for a young person living on the street

£25 could keep the doors of one of our youth homelessness projects open for one hour

£90 could help us find a home for a teenager who's got nowhere to live

£300 could keep a young homeless person in supported lodgings for a month

£500 could keep the doors of an emergency drop-in centre for young homeless people open for a week

£2,000 could pay for emergency overnight accommodation for up to 80 vulnerable young people

£5,000 could pay for a new kitchen in one of our leaving care and homelessness projects

£8,500 could pay for a part-time counselling support worker for young homeless people

£10,000 could furnish a small inter-dependent living house where a group of young homeless people can learn to live independently in a supportive environment

£55,000 could set up an emergency overnight accommodation project for young people sleeping rough

£500,000 could fund a new homelessness project for three years

Half way to our target - £2,500

You are SO generous! £2,500

Half way to our target of £5,000

However we still have a big hill to climb to get to our target, with just two weeks remaining before Byte Night.

So If you havent donated yet please do it now, before you forget again

And if you have already donated - thank you- but please give our mutual friends who havent given yet a gentle prod from us! Email them a link to http://www.justgiving.com/siliconcomrades as a gentle hint.

If you arent happy with donating online you can always  ask for the sponsorship form and give us the cash.