Roll With It 2016

Colonial Andy wrote:Also, a bit confused, Mr RD52169, as you signed off as "Rob" at the end of your first post, but people seem to address you as "Andy"?

That's my fault Andy, I was having a 'trigger moment' (like from Only Fools and Horses, where Trigger keeps calling Rodney, 'Dave').

Sorry Andy! (oops, I mean Rob).

PaulC wrote:Anyway, what's wrong with being called Andy?

Only that there's so many of us, it's plenty confusing enough already.  We don't need to complicate matters by starting to call people "Andy" at random.  As one of the multitude of Pauls, I'm sure you can appreciate it.

Thanks for the information about the event.  As it sounds like it's just open to the public (ie without pre-allocated tickets, unless I misunderstood), the venue I had in mind won't work, sorry.  I should be able to bring The Path to Panic if that sounds like like something people would like, otherwise I'd be happy to demo a proper game like Above and Below or Rococo or something.  At any rate, I'm happy to help out where I can.

Thanks Andy,
The event is actually ticketed. Patriot Games sold tickets for me last year

I'm up for helping out if I can make the date.

Okay, after lots of searching and negotiating,
I seem to have 3 options for venues

1) Handsworth Rectory - same place as last year - I need to raise at least £200 to afford this again

2) Sheffield United FC Platinum Suite - this is quite a large venue with lots of parking and is in the city centre - I need to raise £400 to afford this though.

3) Leopold Hotel - a much smaller venue (rooms are about 10metres x 7metres) and I'm still negotiating how many rooms we actually get - they are offering this for free

Do any of you have any thoughts or fund raising ideas? And would anyone want to get involved in any fund raising?

You guys are all doing so much already, so I really don't mind if you can't or don't want to.
So far I'm arranging a raffle and cake bake at work which should raise around £200ish

Any ideas are greatly appreciated

Im up for helping on the day, and any fundraising efforts... I'll look into a few things, and see what I can come up with.

Kick-starter?

Thanks Scott I really appreciate it.

I'm not sure what I could offer people if I put it on Kickstarter... Last year the ticket sales made up the bulk of the donation to charity. If I can, I'd like that to be the case this year too. Ideally I don't want ticket sales to only cover the cost of the venue...
So I feel offering tickets on Kickstarter is kind of a last resort...

PM Sent... should hopefully get things moving along

After a big day fund raising, I now have enough to run roll with it.

It will be at Bramall Lane, in the Platinum Suite on Sunday 6th November.

Now I'm looking for confirmation of who wants to volunteer to run games again?
It's a bigger venue than last year so I'm trying to get an idea of numbers.

I'm in...

I'm happy to help again, I just need to confirm my availability...

I'm in.

Yup, looking forward to helping out. Good choice of venue too.

Let us know when you have some flyers, etc and we'll post them on here, FB, Twitter, etc.

Happy to help. I'll put it in the diary so I will hopefully be free. Good effort on raising the funds!

Cheers guys, I really appreciate it.
I'll get hold of some posters/flyers and I'll pop down to the club I'll see if I can persuade any more volunteers too

I'm away that weekend so I won't be able to help this time, sorry. All the best with it

I'll help again

In the calendar and I'm happy to help out.

Happy to help out again.

Thanks for helping out again guys.

In order to try and promote the event this year I'm thinking of arranging some demo days with companies.
I've already contacted Waterstones, WH Smiths, Meadowhall and the Winter Gardens.

If I get acceptance, would anyone be interested in taking part in this?
Iv not got dates or times yet, I'm just trying to gage interest.

Also if anyone has any ideas of other places I can contact, please let me know

Date and time dependent yes

Happy to help on the day, and subject to dates and times any of the promotional events too.

I might be able to help out, but it'll depend on the dates and times.

Trying to think of places you could demo:
The Student's Union
Blackwell's
The Diamond
The Works
The Entertainer
Independent coffee shops and cafes? (I was specifically thinking of one on the moore with this).

I'm aware some of these are better ideas than others.

JohnH wrote:I might be able to help out, but it'll depend on the dates and times.

Trying to think of places you could demo:
The Student's Union
Blackwell's
The Diamond
The Works
The Entertainer
Independent coffee shops and cafes? (I was specifically thinking of one on the moore with this).

I'm aware some of these are better ideas than others.

Waterstones? They sell board games (I bought Sheriff of Nottingham from there).

I'm free and happy to help out on the day.