More Retail Therapy

We try to keep you up to date with all the goings on here at Friends of English Martyrs Blog. Well, it's a bit like waiting for a bus ... when one new family friendly online store joins us here on the blog, suddenly there's a whole queue of them waiting to join in!

You'll have to have a look around the blog over the coming week to spot what's new to see what we mean!

Whilst you're visiting don't forget to take a look at the online fundraising widget to see how Andrew Sayers is doing in his fundraising efforts. To learn more about what Andrew is doing for English Martyrs Catholic Primary School have a look at his blog http://andysayers.blogspot.com/

Blog Fundraising Update!

It's time to give you another update of how much money this Blog has raised for our school.

The Friends of English Martyrs Blog started on the 9th October 2007 and has raised a magnificent £53.05!

Your online shopping has helped generate oodles of commission - it really does work! If you shop by clicking on any of our hand-picked online store adverts we raise cash for our school and what's more it doesn't cost you any extra.

Keep up the great work!!

Tell all your family and friends to log on to the Friends of English Martyrs Blog and do their online shopping through us! Why not send an email to everyone in your address book to let them know about our Blog and what we're all doing for our school.

Keen to know where we've generated commission? Here's a few of your most popular online shops:

• Marks & Spencer


• Letterbox


• Early Learning Centre


• Amazon


• LookAtMyCrazyShoes


• Majestic Wine


• Brightminds


• Boden

Please visit our Blog regularly as it is constantly being updated with news and new online shops for you.

Don't forget to let us know what you think of it and whether you have any suggestions for what you'd like to see here.

Shopping Update

Fantastic news ....

Shopping here on the Friends of English Martyrs blog really does make money for our school. In the short time that the blog has been 'live' - you've already raise £11.13

Please keep coming back to our blog, you really do make a difference.

Thank you.

Shop with FEM and raise cash for our school

In our constant efforts to keep up to date with technology, Friends of English Martyrs are proud to announce our very own Online Store!

In association with the retail giant Amazon, we've made raising cash for our school even easier!! At the bottom of this blog you'll see a virtual shop window. We've selected some books to whet your appetite but you can use the search facility and/or categories to find exactly what you're looking for.

You don't pay any more than you would do buying from Amazon but this way the school earns a commission for every sale made .... Easy Peasy!

So tell your friends, family and neighbours to log on to our blog and help us help our school.

Alternatively, click here http://astore.amazon.co.uk/englishmartyrs-21 to shop.

We'll keep you posted with news about how much money we've raised through the Store.

Any questions? Please get in touch if you have any queries or feedback about our Online Store.

Have Your Say - Vote in our Poll

Here at FEM HQ we're really keen to hear to your views on our fundraising activities.

Over the years, Friends of English Martyrs has raised thousands of pounds to help our school and none of this could have been achieved without all of you. We value not only your views but your experience and we would love to know what you would like us to do on your behalf.

In the right hand column you'll see we've started a poll asking you for your views - please take a moment to make your selection. We'll run more polls in the future.

It's new, it's here!

Welcome!

This is the all new Friends of English Martyrs blog and we hope you'll stay and have a look around and allow us to tell you a little bit about what the Friends of English Martyrs (FEM) are currently doing.

We also hope that you'll let us know what you think of this blog (you can leave comments after each of the posts and take part in the blog surveys) and get involved with what we're doing. Whether you're a parent, guardian or member of the parish please support us.

Right let's get on, we have a lot to do!

In this, the first posting on the new blog we must say a huge "thank you" to the previous committee members of FEM who have just completed their two year appointment:

Supreedee Boulton-Smith (Chair)

Cara Topping (Vice-Chair)

Helen Jones (Treasurer)

Paula Menzies (Secretary)

Their wonderful fundraising activities have included:
An amazing Golf Fundraising Day at the equally amazing Stapleford Park Country House Hotel End of term Discos
Cake sales
Summer Fete
Christmas Party - even Father Christmas and his elves attended!

All this hard work, and great fun, has achieved:
The purchase of white boards for each classroom
A variety of school trips for each year group
Visit to Nottingham theatre to see
Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat,
A new two storey playhouse for KS1 playground

Without their tireless efforts, great organisational skills and endless enthusiasm it would be difficult for such a small school as English Martyrs to provide the children with treats and extra equipment that they all deserve.