Boudicca - a queen of a Celtic tribe who fought against the Romans (AD 60 or 61)
I, as MBA student of University of East Anglia is organizing event named as Boudicca’s Feast as part of curriculum with team of 13. Factually speaking, it’s always been pleasure working with charity event but this time it was different and special in a way as I came across many different confronts like highly diversified team (in terms culture, gender and age wise), different set of customers(UK market and their expectation), different area which is not my core interest (Cooking & Drinking affair).
I must confess that the whole process throughout project was joyful emphatic ride of roller coaster. I as a part of team came across really such kind of ups and downs where at some time I felt like there is no point putting efforts as it’s all in vain but there was also time where I felt that I can do far better than this.
Honestly, I was amazed by the way proposal was written but somehow I was not able to imagine the event. Initially, Idea was more about celebrating food and drink festival by asking restaurant and food bazaar people to donate their goods for charity and then people will come at that event will have variety of food for taste and the whole lot of ticket money will go to dragon hall charity trust. Once we started working on it slowly and steadily we realized that we really need to offer something good for participant to come along with us as charity of maintaining historical building does not attract participants and sponsors much. Later, after doing little more market research we as a team realized that we might need to slightly modify the proposal to pull participants and sponsors for our event.
And as I always believe better change soon rather than worry later when it is too late to change, that’s exactly our team did and we got huge success for our change. Then, we got almost more than 18 Food vendor/restaurant Participants and 7 Drinks Participants. Now, Project was more tangible and clear and became pretty comfortable to work along. During the process we all had fantastic fun, Leg pulling, and at times some touchy moments as well. All these memorable moments throughout our journey has really made this event special for me and proud to be a part of this team.
We also did one fund raising activity as Bake-Sale during our process for an event and we managed to sell 110 small cupcakes and 80 cookies (worth £165/-) within an hour. I can’t tell you how joyful fun and wonderful experience it was of selling cakes in the University..!!
Everyone from my team has worked so hard on this project. Each one of us really believes that we have planted seed and every day we are watering and pampering it with such a care and kind heart so that on that D- day it will come good and will turn out into the big tree for charity under which we all will feel like paid off.
This event is held on 4th July, 2010 on the Independence Day of America and tickets worth £5 are available on website to buy for memorable time which supports charity motive with pleasant time in historical building.
Please log on to visit our event website for more detail information: http://www.boudiccasfeast.org
Thanks
With Warm Regards..Gaurav
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