A Reply from Barclays!

Good news! The lady Alex Brebbier (from Barclays) referred the team to, Stella, has contacted us! We are currently replying to her questions that she asked us in the e-mail. We hope that we can develope a strong relationship with Barclays and a sponsorship to last! Stella's e-mail was very helpful and informative and hopefully our reply will also be helpful to her!

25th March Meeting

We have just finished our meeting and we have discussed the points that Tony told me about. We have come up with a name for our future mascot, DENNIS DOLLAR. We have also decided who is going to do the Dragon's Den, drumroll please........

The Name of the Mascot

Anyone got any ideas for a name for when we get our mascot? Please feel free to comment or e-mail us with any suggestions? I have come up with some bad ones:

1. Dime
2. Sterling
3. Tenner
4. Dollar
5. Pete
6. Kash

I know you can come up with some more!!!

The Website

I have just spoken to Tony, from Ice Maiden Designs, and he has got us the name 'Get Cash Keep Cash' for the internet so that no one else can take the name. Another step forward for the 'Get Cash Keep Cash' team.

The Get Ca$h Keep Ca$h Mascot

We think it would be a great idea to have a mascot for our campaign...

We could have him all over the website, on our leaflets, and even on Get Cash Keep Cash T-shirts!

Back from the Meeting

I have just come back from the meeting with Tony, and have learnt a lot! He explained to me what the key parts of a website are. Tony has also recommended some websites for logos and photos. We also talked about how the Get Ca$h Keep Ca$h team can advertise their campaign. He came up with the idea of us going to different schools around the north east, but there are too many schools! So we decided that we can go to the LEA (Local Education Authority) and our campaign would be shown to thousands of children in the north-east via a newsletter or flyer. I will discuss the key points of the website with the other members of the team at our meeting on Tuesday.

Website Designers

I am going to see Ice Maiden designs on Saturday, a website company, (web address: http://www.icemaidendesign.com/) The gentleman I spoke to, Tony, was very helpful indeed and he is sure he can help us. This will help the proper Get Ca$h Keep Ca$h website.

-Henry-

Proper Website

Tomorrow (21/03/08) we have arranged a meeting with a local web designer to try and sort out a website for our campaign. Having a blogger page is great, but our campaign is to have a website where people can get advice about their money, so getcashkeepcash.co.uk is essential to our campaign. We will try and sort our website out soon!

-Alex-

Great News!

Alex, from barclays bank, (see below) has very kindly replied! Here is his email:

Hello, "The Get Cash Keep Cash Team"

Thank you for your email.

I am not the best point of contact for this sort of thing. However, I think I may have found the right person. She is currently on holiday but returns to work on Tuesday so you should hear from her sometime next week.

Good luck with your campaign.

Alex

I think you will agree; this is great news! Thanks Alex.

-Luke-

One step closer!

I have done quite a lot of research, and I have just emailed 'Alex Brebbier' at Barclays bank, who is the director of 'ventures', and asked for a bit of guidance as to where to go for sponsorship.... fingers crossed!

I have also given him links to the change it website, and this blog.

-Luke-

The Team..

We have finally got a picture of the whole team together...

Left to right: Alex, Henry, Vignesh and Luke.

Money troubles of our own!

Grrr. We have researched several website designers, and have contacted them, however it has become clear that for the website we want we are going to have to pay over £1500 pounds. We haven't received confirmation of this yet, but we simply don't have this money! So now our search for sponsors is really underway....

Advertising our Campaign

To get our campaign well known, we thought we could book a spot in a shopping mall, ideally Eldon Square as it is the most popular shopping mall in Newcastle upon Tyne. So, when we get a spot there, we will hand out our ENVIRONMENTALLY friendly leaflets. We will also design a banner (which will also be used when we do our Dragon's Den syle pitch and also when people come looking round at other finalist's campaigns.) We will hand out leaflets to passers by and have a team member at a desk, at the back of our area, with more detailed information. We will also have some freebies - so people will remember us.

Your Turn

As you already know, we were on a programme, known as 'Your Turn',which is part of 'Common Purpose.' 'Your Turn' is just a small part of the many different programmes run by 'Common Purpose.' However Your Turn is especially designed for young people. Our 'Get Cash Keep Cash' campaign all started out as a little game. We decided to make up a campaign which would help our community. The other teams decided to campaign against obvious stuff like Global Warming and Recycling we decided to do something quite unique. The 'Get Cash Keep Cash' campaign was born...

"Get Cash Keep Cash, Keep the Cash That U Got." Boink.

We Are Green!

To advertise our campaign, we will produce eye catching leaflets around the areas in which we live, so that the website will become known amongst younger people. We are currently designing our environmentally friendly leaflets which are able to be recycled and are 100% biodegradable. We are currently investigating sources for where we can obtain these but we are sure we will be successful!

Sponsors?

The 'Get Cash Keep Cash' team are hoping to get bank sponsors for our campaign website. We will hopefully receive a sponsorship from a major bank, eg. Barclays or Halifax. We have undertaken some research about the banks and within the next few days we will have hopefully emailed them organising meetings. During the meeting, we will put across key points for the bank telling them how sponsoring our site will benefit their company. We will aim to have a meeting with Barclays because they mainly aim at the student sector. Advertising on our site will let them be known to the younger sector. We will be back with more good news!

The Jingle

Being pro active, I decided to create a draft jingle of our motto. It's not finished by any stretch... but tell us what you think! (Ps:It helps if you turn your speakers on!)

-Luke-

Our Training Day...

Today, Friday the 14th of March...

We really kicked off our campaign today. We missed the original training day in London a few weeks ago, so Common Purpose kindly put on another one for us and the campaign 'Rooftop Gorillaz' in Leeds.

We left school at about 9.15, ready for a long day ahead of us. We caught the metro (which is a bit like the tube for all you Londoners!) to Newcastle Central Station, where we got the train to Leeds, took about 90 minutes. We then got the taxi to the 'Cardigan Centre' in Leeds where we spent a day with Heather, Emily, and the Rooftop Gorillaz discussing our campaign, presentation skills and how to deal with the media etc. (We also got several nerve-racking physical demonstrations from the Rooftop Gorillaz as to how to free run, and we did our bit by performing some slightly tamer magic tricks...)

We then got the taxi back to the station, the train to York, another train to Newcastle, and then the metro back to school.. Phew, that was a lot!

Overall it was a very productive day, that really gave us an incentive to get going.

"Get Cash keep Cash, Keep The Cash That You Got!" Boink.

Who We Are....

'Get Cash Keep Cash' is a campaign launched by 4 teens from a school in Newcastle Upon Tyne, which aims to help teenagers in the North East of England gain, store, and keep money.

We will create a highly interactive and fun website to let everyone know about where you can get cash from, where and how you should save it, and most importantly hints and tips on how to spend it. We will also create and distribute leaflets around the area, with information on, and of course how to access the website.

We will hopefully have 'getcashkeepcash.co.uk' up and running by June 2008, and we are also working on getting a bank as a sponsor for our campaign...

So, we'll keep you posted!

"Get Cash Keep Cash, Keep The Cash That U Got!" Boink.