We’ve all watched in horror over recent weeks as Mother Nature dealt its most devastating blow, leaving Japan in the grip of a mind blowing relief effort with unspeakable lives and worlds shattered. Echo’s of the disaster have been felt worldwide; with people all across the globe wanting to do all they can to help rebuild a broken Japan.
Pretty Little Poppet designs, brain child of Sophie Keegan situated here in the West Midlands has come up with a creative, innovative and multi coloured way to help raise money for the Japan relief effort.
‘After seeing the devastation that had been caused by the earthquakes in Japan I really wanted to do something, no matter how small I just wanted to do my bit to help’, says Sophie.
As part of Pretty Little Poppet designs, a youthful, creative and colourful collection, Sophie sells multi coloured elastic bracelets with peace charms.
Sophie says, ‘The idea literally just popped into my head while I was watching the news and once I’d set my heart on it I had to do something. I felt this could be the perfect thing to produce and sell to raise money to help.’
Available in 5 different colours and at £1.50 each the peace bracelets are a roaring success, with all the money raised going straight to Japan.
‘The feedback has been amazing! Sophie explains. ‘Within minutes of putting the photo up on Facebook explaining what I was doing I had so many people contact me requesting one or two, or one of each! I’ve had lots of personal messages from people telling me how nice they think the idea is and it is so nice to see that there’s so many other people that want to do there bit to help too even if it’s just one small step’
Pretty Little Poppet was last year mastermind behind a local ‘Clothing Fair’ event created to help raise money to help towards the relief effort in Haiti after the 2010 quake.
‘Last year after the Haiti disaster I was watching a programme on what had happened and I literally couldn’t believe the devastation and the amount of lives lost, you just can’t imagine that ever happening here and I don’t think people realise how lucky we are’
The Clothing Fair was set up at a local hotel, together with her best friends and the generous community, women’s, men’s, children’s clothing and accessories were collected to sell.
‘Friends, family, work colleagues, old school friends who I hadn’t seen for years and even strangers helped to spread the word’
Local businesses got involved, donating lots of raffle prizes, from local theatres, cinemas, restaurants, spa’s and match tickets/signed football shirts from both big and local teams.
‘The response from everyone was amazing and after days and days of sorting through and organising everything, we held our Clothing sale on a Sunday and so many people came it was wonderful!’
A small article featured in the local paper and the fair warranted itself a mention on a local radio station. The team had promoted the event far and wide, doing everything they could to advertise the sale and it all paid off with a fantastic raising of £1000 on the day.
Sophie’s peace bracelets for Japan are available to order via her Facebook page www.facebook.com/Pretty.Little.Poppet or contact her via her Twitter page at http://www.twitter.com/PrettyLittlePop
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