Monday 7 January 2008
A new year, a first find...
A visit into the towns clubs and bars Friday night yielded a shiny new 20p piece on one of the dancefloors. And so the quest continues...
Tuesday 1 January 2008
A much needed update...
It could be said that I have been 'rather', hmmm perhaps 'extremely' is a better word to use. I have been extremely lazy when it has come to updating this blog. The proof lies in the four months that it has been since I posted last.
That laziness however has not extended to this project as a whole. I have still been on the search for that elusive "Street Change" and suffice to say the amount collected from the floors, streets and fields of the UK has increased by quite an amount since August...
Reading Festival:
This is where a grey area enters this project. The aim is to find spare change, actual money, be it local currency or foreign, on the ground or left by others (I've found small bits of change left on bars in pubs and clubs during the past 9 months). All told in actual change terms my friends and I found £2.37 and a 5 Euro Cent at the Reading Festival.
That said the organisers of the festival ran their own incentive project surrounding the paper cups used to dispence the alcoholic refreshment (much neeeded on a hot Summer's day when there's a rock festival on!!!). They were offering 10 pence for every paper cup returned to designated collection points around the site the obvious idea being to save on paying people to do the work for them. Of course the majority of these cups are on the floor (usually - the Festival-going public appeared to forget that practise this year for some reason... ;) ). Basically I took this to mean that as the cups actually had a monetary worth at this years festival, if they were found on the floor this could qualify as 'streetchange'.
From this little endeavour an additional £6.50 was collected but I shall dub this the "Reading Cup project" and always list this as a seperate entry to the grand total.
Reading Festival Total = £8.87 + 0.05€
Bestival:
Just to prove that not all festivals are as beneficial to this project a measely £0.45 was found at Bestival, held on the Isle of Wight in September. That said Bestival is a truly great festival and I know that the organisers make sure it's one of the most charity minded regular festivals held out there. I'm guessing that everyone was handing their change in for good causes that weekend.
NFL:London Weekend:
My first note!!!!
Was lucky to find this little beauty right at my feet inside the stadium while I was queuing to buy an overpriced hotdog. The game between the Dolphins and Giants may have been lacklustre but this was an unexpected gem.
Total found from the weekend = £10.44
And while smaller hauls have been collected from other visits to various towns around the south of England their contribution has added up to almost the same amount that was found in the first 6 months of this Street Change challenge.
That's an additional £6.53 to the total!
So the grand total running from March throught to December 31st 2007 now sits at....
....wait for it....
£31.02 + €0.05 + $0.02CAN (I'd managed to lose one of the cent pieces I had found in Canada and found it under my desk a couple of weeks ago)
That laziness however has not extended to this project as a whole. I have still been on the search for that elusive "Street Change" and suffice to say the amount collected from the floors, streets and fields of the UK has increased by quite an amount since August...
Reading Festival:
This is where a grey area enters this project. The aim is to find spare change, actual money, be it local currency or foreign, on the ground or left by others (I've found small bits of change left on bars in pubs and clubs during the past 9 months). All told in actual change terms my friends and I found £2.37 and a 5 Euro Cent at the Reading Festival.
That said the organisers of the festival ran their own incentive project surrounding the paper cups used to dispence the alcoholic refreshment (much neeeded on a hot Summer's day when there's a rock festival on!!!). They were offering 10 pence for every paper cup returned to designated collection points around the site the obvious idea being to save on paying people to do the work for them. Of course the majority of these cups are on the floor (usually - the Festival-going public appeared to forget that practise this year for some reason... ;) ). Basically I took this to mean that as the cups actually had a monetary worth at this years festival, if they were found on the floor this could qualify as 'streetchange'.
From this little endeavour an additional £6.50 was collected but I shall dub this the "Reading Cup project" and always list this as a seperate entry to the grand total.
Reading Festival Total = £8.87 + 0.05€
Bestival:
Just to prove that not all festivals are as beneficial to this project a measely £0.45 was found at Bestival, held on the Isle of Wight in September. That said Bestival is a truly great festival and I know that the organisers make sure it's one of the most charity minded regular festivals held out there. I'm guessing that everyone was handing their change in for good causes that weekend.
NFL:London Weekend:
My first note!!!!
Was lucky to find this little beauty right at my feet inside the stadium while I was queuing to buy an overpriced hotdog. The game between the Dolphins and Giants may have been lacklustre but this was an unexpected gem.
Total found from the weekend = £10.44
And while smaller hauls have been collected from other visits to various towns around the south of England their contribution has added up to almost the same amount that was found in the first 6 months of this Street Change challenge.
That's an additional £6.53 to the total!
So the grand total running from March throught to December 31st 2007 now sits at....
....wait for it....
£31.02 + €0.05 + $0.02CAN (I'd managed to lose one of the cent pieces I had found in Canada and found it under my desk a couple of weeks ago)
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