Friends, Geeks, Costumers, fellow Disney fans, lovers of star wars, friends of friends, basically everyone ….
As some of you know I am part of a team behind a charity convention later this year (August 7th).
Our aim is to raise much needed funds for two amazing causes
Demelza Hospice Care for Children – a charity supporting children and young people (0-19) who are not expected to reach adulthood, and offer support to their families across Kent, South East London and East Sussex
Feel the Force Day (registed charity – 1st sensory legion) – Feel the Force Day is an accessible film and TV event designed for visually impaired and disabled people. Days include tactile costumes, props, vehicles, TV and film related smell jars… plus a few new and original ideas at each event.
All proceeds from Invictacon will be split between the two charities above – as you will agree both great causes.
So how can you help us?
The Invictacon team are looking for donations from you .. not in the monitory sense (although cash donations are lovely) – we are looking for items that we can use in our raffle and blind auction.
It can be anything related to film, tv, sci-fi, comic books, gaming, sport, any fandoms etc… that will help us raise some funds for Demelza and FTFD
How can you get it to us?
- IBM/LOTUS/Conference people – we are at Connect 2016 in Orlando and Engage 2016 in Einhoven – bring it along (as long as i can fit it in a case)
- Costuming friends – we will be at a few sci-fi / comic cons this year – let us know where you will be and we will come and collect or arrange for a friend to accept it on our behalf
- Anyone else -You can contact us to arrange pick up (if you are local to the southeast of the UK) or postal / courier
Any donations will be gratefully received – and we would love to tell the world that you have donated a prize (if you don’t want us to do that, that is also ok)
We are also looking for category sponsors for the costume / cosplay competition (or for the whole comp) – a small prize, trophy and certificate will be presented in each category
- Kids under 10
Kids 10 – 16
Adults 16 and over
Best Group
The competition is being judged by the lovely Alan Flyng – Star wars (ESB / ROTJ – storm-trooper and imperial officer) who is an amazing costume maker / wardrobe master who has worked on thousands of TV, film and theatrical productions.
Thank you
So my plee for help ends .. if there is anyway you could part with something no matter how small to help us raise funds for both causes the whole team would be so so grateful.
- Drop us a message via the invictacon FB page
- Tweet us a message
- Pop us an email via the web site contact form
The team and I can not thank you enough – we are all volunteers and get nothing but a warm and fuzzy feeling for raising some well needed funds for two amazing causes.
So thank you
Sharon, Sam, Nathan, David and Nicky
