Spectacular start in September

So, after our 'quiet' summer (see previous post!) we have made a great start in September, with two events.


On 14 September we attended the Siemens Fun Day.  We got to use Gertie gazebo for the first time!  We sold cakes, pick and mix sweets, temporary tattoos and had free bracelet making and daffodil making.
Despite the drizzle of the day, people were not put off, and in fact were glad to stand under Gertie to keep dry.  We raised £138.  Thanks to our helpers that day, it was a great team effort.

The following Saturday we were at Asda, Farnborough.  We had been invited to hold a bag packing day there after we won their Community Life (green tokens) scheme earlier in the year. 

With loads of support from our children (sorry, young people), supporters and friends, we had a hugely successful day and raised £727 in six hours.

Our next event will be the return of Family Spookfest on Sunday 27 October, 4-7pm at Pine Ridge Golf Course.

Thank you everyone - just look at all those happy faces! ♥

Summer funtime

At the end of June we attended a very wet and windy event at Pine Ridge Golf Centre (our 'home') - their first, and very successful Beer Festival.  After trying to hold down and gazebo intent on escape, we moved into the beer tent and continued our tombola, which took £165.

In mid-July we were invited to hold a weekend collection in Superdrug, Camberley, as part of Superdrugs support for Marie Curie Cancer Care as their charity for 2013.  Across the two (very hot) days we collected £145 and Rachael, who works in the store, painted nails with all profits to Marie Curie, raising a further £109.  If you'd like one of the specially commissioned silver daffodil pins - they are available only from Superdrug - so hurry while stocks last :-)



© Paul Deach

At the end of July we were invited to attend a charity day at the White Lion in Yateley.  Unfortunately we were unable to get anybody over there as it was the first weekend of the school holidays.  However, a kind regular held a stall on our behalf and took £115!

We were thrilled to be on the Waitrose Community Matters (green token) scheme during August and I was staggered when the lady there called me in September to say we had the highest number of tokens and that a cheque for £570 would soon be heading our way.

Maybe, for me (sad but true), the most exciting thing during the summer was the arrival of our lovely new branded gazebo.  MCCC do not have resources to supply these to every Fundraising Group, and the one gazebo they do have is a domestic one (which we nearly lost at the Beer Festival).  Thanks to an individual sponsor, who wishes to remain anonymous, we were able to purchase a commercial quality gazebo, complete with name banner, which as you will see from the next blog, made its first appearance at the Siemens Fun Day.  We have also offered to lend this out to local MCCC Fundraising Groups, which we have already done with the Windsor FG.

A gazebo named Gertie

Finally, to complete our new swish look, I have just this week received a cheque for a grant from the Frimley Fuel Allotments charity to pay for three new folding tables (commercial quality) instead of using my own rather feeble ones.  Happy days!

So, I had started off by thinking I would say what a quiet summer we'd had, but looking back, that wasn't the case at all!  Thanks to everyone who has helped by supporting these events.