Tag: Casual Day

Some of you may remember my Casual Day post where I explained that down here we have a national programme allowing people to go to work on the 1st Friday in September dressed either casually or join in with the Rock star theme for the purchase of a R10.00 (£1) sticker.

I mentioned that we were hoping to sell about 3,000 of them, we (Autism Eastern Cape) receiving a 40% share. Well, we sold almost 5,500! Beyond our wildest dreams, this being our first time at participating in the sale of stickers.

Needless to say it was a festive funfilled day.

Our local radio station joined in with a corporate challenge, ‘Worn to be Wild’ they called it, offering a R10,0000 (£1,000) advertising contract to the business which, in their opinion submitted the best photos of their staffs efforts, I’ve added a couple below Continue reading “Casual Day 2011 – Feedback”

Do you have a Casual Day?

Here’s how it works, one day a year (usually the 1st Friday in September) people are encouraged to buy an official sticker for R10.00 (less than £1) and on that day they can go to work, school, university, wherever in casual clothes.

The project has been running for 16 years now, organised by The National Council for Persons with Physical Disabilities in SA (NCPPDSA) but the big difference this year is that we Autism Eastern Cape are an official distributor.

Which means that we are allowed to keep R4.00 of every ticket sold! 🙂

We’ve been working on this project since about May, hassling friends, walking up to complete strangers, Continue reading “Casual Day 2011”