Joining The Challenge! – LAST YEARS RECORD IS BEATEN BY OVER 10,000 BAGS!!
The Plymouth Brethren are again participating in the British Heart Foundations Great British Bag-athon challenge. The BHF’s target for this year is One million bags, an inspiring goal. Last year the PBCC became Bag-athon legends when they collected an incredible 2768 bags for the BHF.
With over 300 churches nationwide the brethren teams are rallying with enthusiasm to do all we can to match or if possible even beat last year’s excellent result.
The British Heart Foundation is the UK’s number one heart charity dedicated to fighting heart disease. Coronary heart disease is the UK’s single biggest killer and the BHF are leading the fight against it, and have been doing so now for over 50 years.
With a number of members of the PBCC having experienced heart problems in their own families, and having proven the benefits of the latest research and technology that in many cases has been funded by such charitable actions, the PBCC have great respect for this dedicated charity and are committed to helping their research teams by getting unreservedly involved in this challenge. We realise the vital help that is provided to the charity through every single extra bag that is donated.
You can view the BHF Bag-athon challenge here http://bag-athon.bhf.org.uk/
You can see below a snapshot of where the PBCC are up to in the bag-athon league tables.
And the result?
An outstanding 12,998 bags for the BHF, this is absolutely incredible. Words cannot really describe the level of achievement that this displays. A fantastic display of teamwork and unselfishness makes this a success that will be remembered for a long time.
We will shortly be putting up a new blog to display the final outcome figures and any photo’s we may have!
Many thanks to all who have worked so hard to turn this challenge into an inspirational success for the BHF!!
Bagathon Update 04.10.13
Anyone having a bag day?
They said the driver is in a bag mood!
It’s got a big bagside.
Room for one more
Can still see the floor
We look forward to seeing more pictures and further updates as the bag collecting goes on!!
My mum and our neighbour are the best! I got home from a 3 hour drive tonight to find our mountain of bags GONE! they took the whole lot down to the charity shop for me! THANK YOU BOTH!
Over 4500 now!!! Unbelievable! Left everyone else way behind…
I’m sure by the end of the day 4939 will be a distant memory – WELL DONE! Amazing what can be accomplished when we work together. A great big HURRAY FOR THE PBCC BAGGERS to every single one!
over 4000 bags!!!!!!!!!!!
🙂
we’ve got a few bags that haven’t been collected yet… when’s the cut-off date??
duno 🙂
Hey…..do you take shower curtains?
Only 361 more bags to go….. this is awesome!!! the numbers seem to have suddenly shot up.. a huge great WELL DONE to every single participant.
🙂 😉 🙂
No more disloyal and inappropriate cardigan comments please.
I have to say a word of high praise for our local co-ordinator – every day, more physical work collecting and delivering bags, more cheerful encouragement to us all to keep clearing out our houses, more time sacrificed from precious lunch hour or after work – what a sterling job and very much appreciated.
Please explain re cardigans?
Bags, bags, bags,
See how they come,
They all pile up in the dining room,
The kitchen, the lounge and the drawing room,
There’s even some in the smallest room!
Bags, bags, bags.
Keep on bagging, don’t stop bagging,
You’re gonna be a star some day,
You’re gonna make a lot of people happy,
When you give your bags away!
Keep on blogging, don’t stop blogging,
We’re gonna make them read one day,
You’re gonna make a lot of people happy,
When they read what you’ve gotta say!
A funny thing happened to Moo
Her bags overflowed to the Zoo
She rang for a man
To collect all he can
And to have that all sorted by 2.
But oh no her plans went spadink
The reply was, “we’re too busy I think!”
We’ll come in 12 days
To collect hats and trays
So now she has bags in her sink.
Hey Dinky Tinky! You can’t do that! Thanks for helping me deliver the bags though you crazy woman.
It took al’ day to fil’ up oor cart,
for this bag-a-thon which wur takin’ oor part
We trundled dow’n tow’n,
But it didn’a cause us to frow’n,
as wur raisin’ money to help folks wi’ a bad heart.
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(Is that how Oor Wullie would have said it or not?) Any Scottish team members pls advise. (presume Scots are included in the BRITISH Heart Foundation challenge….?)
Baa baa PB’s, have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, 3 bags full!
One for BHF, one for Bags2School
And one for Help For Heroes
Because we think they’re cool!
BHF held a Bag-athon,
E-I-E-I-O,
Then the PBCC came along,
E-I-E-I-O,
With a big bag here and a big bag there,
Here a bag, there a bag,
Everywhere a big bag,
BHF held a Bag-athon
E-I-E-I-O
(Grand old Duke of York)
Oh, the PBCC team
They have 3000 bags (nearly!)
They march them up to the BHF shop
And march back soon with more
When the bags are full, they are full
And when they are full, they are stuffed
And if they are only halfway full, that isn’t good enough!
(Baa Baa Black Sheep)
Ba…Ba…Bagathon
Have you any bags?
Yes sir, yes sir,
10 bags full
6 full of old clothes
2 full of shoes
And 2 full of bits & bobs I cannot wait to lose!
Have you been missing me?
I changed my name – did anyone guess?
Got loads more bags to go – determined to hit 200 from here.
Yes, I guessed, Bagger Deluxe! Keep flying the flag Granny!
Now we’re the kings of bagging
Oh, the bagging VIPs
We’ve reached the top and had to stop
And that’s what botherin’ me
There ain’t much competition
As we stroll right into town
We are the bagathon legends
We ain’t monkeyin’ around!
Oh, oobee doo
I wanna be like you
I wanna bag like you
Talk like you, too
You’ll see it’s true
An girl like me
Can learn to fill bags too
Gee, little Granny
You’re doin’ real good
Now here’s your part of the deal, cuz
Lay the secret on me of this bag-athon lark
So we bust the five thousand mark!
Now don’t try to kid me, Granny
I made a deal with you
What I desire is to pile bags higher
To make my dream come true
Give me the secret, Granny
Clue me what to do
Give me the power of a bag tower
So I can be like you
You!
I wanna be like you
I wanna bag like you
Walk like you, too
You’ll see it’s true
Someone like me
Can learn to be
Like someone like me
Can learn to be
Like someone like you
Can learn to be
Like someone like me!
we’re all behind you granny!!!
Does that go to a certain tune JeanzBeanz???!!!!:)
Loot- it goes to ‘I wanna be like you’, a Disney song =)
Two thousand, seven hundred, and sixty-nine
That’s LOTS of bags, a few of them are mine.
The team up here are cheering til we’re hoarse
Coz we’ve beaten last year’s figure for this very worthy cause!
we are the best!!!
last year’s culmination
of the bags accumulation
to an almighty number
ah, but ‘caramba’
they are already exceeding
nothing is impeding
their public benefit
you and I can see it:
their generosity – unending
the total transcending
they’ve broken last year’s
and it so appears
they’ll continue to try
until 5000 is nigh
OH No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My favourite chair is surrounded again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
keep a look out when they collect those bags!!
Guess what I saw in town today in lunch break!! My old Joules skirt! An elderly lady was wearing it looking very smart. only about a week ago I dropped it off at BHF in that same town! Doesnt take long to turn into cash does it! Well done BHF for your quick turn around!!!!!
how cool
Amazing
We hit our target ages ago! No one knows yet though coz the bags are all still in our spare room waiting to be collected. And they are multiplying!!! Good old BHF they deserve all the support we can give!
Come on everyone, we are almost there, we have the end in view…… We have just filled up van load tonight which will be taken in soon……. with another van load coming soon………………….. come on everyone, together we can do it!!!
a load of bags just gone we’re coming 1st in the bag-athon!!
Rhyming Rodney
IDEA!
to spice up this bagathon a tda, why don’t you speak to BHF and see if we can do a poem competition soon as everyone seems to be doing them. the best one wins a prize…..? or a free bag!!!!!!
Jingle Bags verse two:
Bagging here, bagging there, bagging all the way
Oh what fun it is to bag
For BHF today……Oh!
Blogging here, blogging there
Blogging all the way
Oh what fun it is to blog
It helps us on our way!!!
yeah, an excellent idea, the author of the best poem gets to donate a bag?
Sounds good this ‘free bag’ lark