Planning a large Charity fundraising event takes a LOT of planning, preparation and time but if you get it right the rewards for your chosen Charity can be bountiful.  The first priority is to decide on your chosen cause, if it’s something personal to you or your family even better.  Think about how much money you would like to make and how you can achieve that goal, raffle tickets, live/silent auctions, donations and an actual party event are a few ideas to get the ponds rolling in.  Choose an appropriate venue and discuss the charity event with the property owners, some might offer you a discount or even donate their space for a great cause.

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Spreading the word about your event once a venue has been found is crucial, get onto Social media, one of the biggest allies you can find.  Get the word out there, promote your cause and try to make it as much fun as possible so that more people will get involved and attend. Speak to experts in the field and listen to the advice of professionals such as https://outdoormedicalsolutions.co.uk/  make sure you’ve got trained first aiders on hand, Event Medical Hire is essential.

Think of several ways to accept donations, for on the day sales use a ticket provider that can expedite an app that allows last minute sales.  Pre-sales are crucial so decide on a platform that takes mobile and digital payments in advance. If you get it right your chosen charity will be the recipient of a VERY LARGE MONITERY DONATION.

One of my favourite animated films in recent years is Ratatouille. Watching the little rat Remy on his quest to become a chef and his unlikely friendship with the bumbling Linguini and their attempts at cooking in a bid to both become renowned chefs and to be respected by those around them.

My love for this film meant that like any typical fan I went in search of any facts that I could find on the film and its making. I thought I would share some of my findings with you.

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The animators, actors and other staff working on this film became a very close little community and were also hardworking and determined to make the voiceover and other noises in the film as life like as possible. Some examples of this dedication include:

• The motorcycle that Colette rides is branded as a “Calahan” which is the surname of the Director of Photography who worked on the fil – Sharon Calahan.
• During the emotional scene where Remy hugs his father the noises you can hear are in fact the noise of Patton Oswalt (the voice of Remy) hugging the film’s director Brad Bird.

Research was key to ensuring that the film was true to the cuisines of France and that the film followed real life in terms of some of the images that were created. Some of the ways in which this was achieved include:

• Brad Bird and Brad Lewis (the film director and producer) spent lots of time researching the Paris restaurant world and spent many hours sampling meals at Thomas Keller’s restaurant in Napa in a bid to make the dishes shown in the film as authentic as possible.
• Over 270 pieces of food were created. These items were created in a real kitchen, were styled and decorated, photographed and then digitally remastered for the animation. Everything down to the Marble Tiles on the floor were recreated in animation.
• When researching Paris as a city and also the restaurant world the film crew took in excess of 4,500 photographs that they used as reference materials when creating the digital animation shots.
• The team wanted the compost heap that is depicted in the film to be as life like as possible. To do this they took items like apples, bananas and lettuce amongst other vegetable and fruit-based items and left these to rot. Whilst they were rotting photographs were taken at various stages and this enabled them to recreate the compost heap as a graphic.

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If you haven’t seen the film, it is definitely worth sitting down with a glass of wine (French preferably) and enjoying the delights of Remy and Linguini.

Before the dawn of this new modern Computer age most people relied on the written word to keep in touch with family and friends.  Writing desks with traditional quill ink pens were first used along with blotting paper to carefully dab on to liquid ink applied to generously.  Letters, birthday cards, post cards, party invitations were all sent through the post and hand written.

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The original computer models were made out of a need to solve serious number crunching problems and not for entertainment. By 1880 the population in America had grown so large that it took a staggering seven years to correctly record Census results!  The American government looked for faster ways to tabulate such data and that gave rise to the first punch-card computers. Just like a computer a PDF to Excel  file can evolve and will allow the operator to modify the results.  By the 1980’s Microsoft were able to announce “Windows” as a response to Apple’s “GUI” and Commodores “Amiga”.

These days modern electronic and digital computers can do pretty much anything that can be programmed into them!  The internal machinery parts of the computer like the wires, circuits and transistors are called the hardware.  The data and instructions are called the software and the computer memory stores programmes and data that needs to be kept.

Most modern households own at least one computer and the youth of today rely on their electronic devises to help them communicate and carry out their day to day lives.