Hey all

Hi everyone,

Thanks for speaking to David Kim, it's always worth getting advise from someone else who's not so involved. Elephant and Wheelburrow sounds good but the fact that they don't let in under age is a concern, also initially we wanted to try and keep away from pubs as we didn't think this would be the right environment for the event (although i know that things change a lot!). The other thing was wheelchair access?

I know it's a difficult situation to be in guys, and it's hard with a big group, and having different opinions about things. Tonight I was happy to go ahead with the other venue if everything worked out (this would have taken a lot of stress of me, with the sponsorship etc, and off everyone else), but with the age restrictions and the fact that we still need a DJ etc, i'm just not sure about it. Also what was the seating there like?

Guys we will get the sponsorship, it just takes time, and we won't be able to secure this before the invites go out. It's hard with jemimah because this really isn't her problem, she just doing it to help us out, but I will call her first thing tomorrow and explain where we are with it all.

I'll do the sponsorship myself if I have to, I don't care, like David said this is about what is best for the kids. I did this for Soph to begin with and this is about her and everyone else in her situation and about making their night as special as it can be. Having said this I know we all have other committments and very limited time but we're all in the same situation here and we just have to try and do the best we can.

I'm going to call Kate in the morning and get her opinion. Please don't let Kate think that we're panicking about this or throw all our issues on her, it isn't her problem, it's our project and all we need is her advise regarding the under age thing.

I'll also be in touch with one of you in the morning after I speak to Kate, or after you meet with her. I'm not sure if you're all thinking that you will be liable for this cost if we don't cover it but you won't!! Mum has offered to run a raffle (if we can all just help sell some tickets to friends before the event) and Dad is going to put up the deposit for Red Scooter if we decide to go with that.

I know this isn't easy but as i've said not event is smooth running and we all just need to hang in there and try our best to work together!

And this is really long so i'm going to go now!! I'll check this later so feel free to reply with any questions or concerns.

Otherwise we'll speak tomorrow morning.

Justine.