Eleven reasons why 11 is a good number

£11,000 and rising!  *Updated - another milestone passed this afternoon


Ignore the 7

• We have almost raised 11K and there is a band on Facebook called Eleven
• Eleven is the first number which cannot be counted with a human's ten fingers
• Eleven o’clock is a whole hour before midday and midnight
• Eleven is the number of us raising money for charity on Sunday 15^th April (if you include Dev Malhotra running in the Brighton marathon)
• Apollo 11 was the first manned spacecraft to land on the moon
• The number of incarnations of The Doctor in BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who is eleven.
• Spinal Tap's amplifiers go upto eleven.
• After Judas Iscariot was disgraced, the remaining apostles of Jesus were sometimes described as "the Eleven”.
• The Eleven is a song by The Grateful Dead. 
• My daughter, who is twelve was eleven.
• There are eleven football players on the pitch for each team in a Premiership football game.