Saturday 22 June 2013

Blooming Great Tea Party 2013

We were delighted to once again be invited to hold our Blooming Great Tea Party at Pine Ridge Golf Course.  This year, we invited Camberley Mummies to partner with us on this event.

Once again, the support of the community was fantastic.  All our wonderful cakes were donated by professional cake-makers and keen amateurs, which made for a very impressive selection of mouth-watering goodies which were key to the success of the day.

We also held a Tea and Cakes themed raffle and a 'Name the Teddy Bears' competition.  Linda, one of our volunteers, also contributed some great toddler-friendly lunches and mini cakes, which were very much appreciated by the Mums there.

Pine Ridge organised for a bouncy ball pit to be available and we were joined by Red Door Photography who put up their photo booth and donated all monies from prints to us.  Surrey Performing Arts kept the little ones amused and Little Faces make them look beautiful!

We welcomed stallholders, all of whom are members of the Camberley Mummies business directory, as well as two beauticians/nail technicians, who all helped add to the community atmosphere of the day.

Heidi Kilgariff of Heidi's Heart Pillow Project also joined us, she is spearheading a project to encourage people to make heart pillows for use by breast surgery patients at Frimley Park Hospital.  The pillows are used under the arm to give relief to the areas of surgery.

With many thanks to Pine Ridge for having us once again, and supplying copious amounts of tea and coffee and to the Surrey Heath Residents Network for assisting with promoting the event.

We raised £366 in three hours!