Penguin Queen
03-27-2007, 12:55 AM
Do you lovely poeple remember when I was bemoaning (in the Dejection subforum), a few weeks ago, the fact that a funding body who shall remain nameless had turned down my publisher's application for funding my walking promotion tour of Wales this summer?
I was feeling rather squashed at the time, having counted on the funding to go through.
Someone on here, apart from kind words like salve, suggested applying for funding to bodies like the Welsh Tourist Board - which, in my slight unworldliness and uncomercialness, would not have occurred to me.
We have now cut the tour in half, & the good news #1 is...
...that there is another funding body who probably will cough up some. However, they only cough to the tune of 50% of what's actually needed. Dont ask me why. Perhaps they think it's character builidng. :tongue
Good news #2:
However, spurred on by said comment, I suggested to the editor that we try to get some sponsorship out of a Wales-wide transport company (both bus and rail), and I just got an email from her: They have agreed to pay for almost all my travelling on bus & rail!!
:hooray:
So if we get the 50% off the second funding body, and I sleep in ditches / poeple's houses / a borrowed sleeping bag amid sheep under the Welsh stars and only eat every other day, I will be able to make this tour. And be slim and svelte and sinewy at the end of it.
And famous. Not sane, but hey. You can't have it all. :D
:hooray:
I was feeling rather squashed at the time, having counted on the funding to go through.
Someone on here, apart from kind words like salve, suggested applying for funding to bodies like the Welsh Tourist Board - which, in my slight unworldliness and uncomercialness, would not have occurred to me.
We have now cut the tour in half, & the good news #1 is...
...that there is another funding body who probably will cough up some. However, they only cough to the tune of 50% of what's actually needed. Dont ask me why. Perhaps they think it's character builidng. :tongue
Good news #2:
However, spurred on by said comment, I suggested to the editor that we try to get some sponsorship out of a Wales-wide transport company (both bus and rail), and I just got an email from her: They have agreed to pay for almost all my travelling on bus & rail!!
:hooray:
So if we get the 50% off the second funding body, and I sleep in ditches / poeple's houses / a borrowed sleeping bag amid sheep under the Welsh stars and only eat every other day, I will be able to make this tour. And be slim and svelte and sinewy at the end of it.
And famous. Not sane, but hey. You can't have it all. :D
:hooray: