Quartermaster -Stores M11 Blowout Party Recovery

Hi, We run a small business providing reenactment supplies to an amazing bunch of people who dress up in funny clothes at weekends. As everyone knows, it's been a tough few years, but things have been plodding along.

We have been furiously prepping for our biggest event of the year - Military Odyssey at Detling Showground on Kent. We set of yesterday, full of anticipation and excitement.

Then this happened. A tyre blow out caused our beloved truck (that we sleep in at events as well at transporting us and our stock) to slam into the central reservation of the M11 and flip over, skidding 100m along the road, and gouging a great big hole in it.

We escaped out of the drivers window, onto the top of the upturned vehicle.

The van is written off. A good chunk of our stock is written off. We have lost the biggest reenactment event of our calendar.

Several people have suggested setting up one of these, to help us rebuild and get back on our feet. So here it is.

Please don't feel obliged, if you can afford a few quid, we will be grateful and use it to get us through this, and out the other side.