No sooner had we finished the walk than June 22nd was upon us, and that meant only 1 thing - the tombola at Asda. Thanks to the generosity of people, particularly the parishioners of St Patrick's and Christ the King, we had amassed 100 prizes in total. Amazingly they all fitted into Dad's car and we headed to Asda for 10:00am. Having met Mark we got ourselves ready to be signed in only to realise we had forgotten the trestle table, well everyone is allowed one mistake on a Saturday morning! After a quick dash back we were soon in and ready to go.
We soon realised we were going to need more than 1 table so we scrounged another, sorted the prizes into some sort of order and we were off! There wasn't quite the rush of the Debenham's Blue Cross Sale, but it was steady away. It was edge of the seat stuff waiting for the very first winner, but it was all a bit of an anticlimax as it turned out the first prize won was a dust pan and brush, I bet the winner went home and started a cleaning frenzy.
There was enough of us to do shifts so we split the time up. Highlights of the day include the girl was thrilled to win the knitted cardigan and will use it for one of her 300+ dolls, and the two kids who won Jackie's sweet trees - I bet they are still scoffing them now!
As always, people were very generous, often having more goes than they intended, in the hope of winning something which, in all honesty, they probably never wanted! Some people seemed genuinely interested in the Brain Research Trust and the fundraising we were doing, with a few people eager to learn more, and even raise funds themselves. It's amazing how many people are touched in some way or another by brain conditions.
With a few prizes still to win we decided to call it a day, it was 2:30pm, and we had put our 4 and a half hours graft in. Throughout the day we had raised £522 in total, that's over £100 an hour, and another great contribution to our overall efforts. We had now broken the £6,000 mark for the year, with more funds to come in.
A few thanks for their efforts today. Thanks to Asda and in particular Cath Able, as well as Mark & Jackie for getting this all together. Thanks to the brilliant team of helpers who made the day a success - to Mam & Dad, Kath, Grace, Angela, Sheila, Pam and Janet. One last big thank you to Mam & Grace who spent many an unseen hour sorting the prizes out and folding (along with a team of little helpers) the 100's of raffe tickets.
We soon realised we were going to need more than 1 table so we scrounged another, sorted the prizes into some sort of order and we were off! There wasn't quite the rush of the Debenham's Blue Cross Sale, but it was steady away. It was edge of the seat stuff waiting for the very first winner, but it was all a bit of an anticlimax as it turned out the first prize won was a dust pan and brush, I bet the winner went home and started a cleaning frenzy.
There was enough of us to do shifts so we split the time up. Highlights of the day include the girl was thrilled to win the knitted cardigan and will use it for one of her 300+ dolls, and the two kids who won Jackie's sweet trees - I bet they are still scoffing them now!
As always, people were very generous, often having more goes than they intended, in the hope of winning something which, in all honesty, they probably never wanted! Some people seemed genuinely interested in the Brain Research Trust and the fundraising we were doing, with a few people eager to learn more, and even raise funds themselves. It's amazing how many people are touched in some way or another by brain conditions.
With a few prizes still to win we decided to call it a day, it was 2:30pm, and we had put our 4 and a half hours graft in. Throughout the day we had raised £522 in total, that's over £100 an hour, and another great contribution to our overall efforts. We had now broken the £6,000 mark for the year, with more funds to come in.
A few thanks for their efforts today. Thanks to Asda and in particular Cath Able, as well as Mark & Jackie for getting this all together. Thanks to the brilliant team of helpers who made the day a success - to Mam & Dad, Kath, Grace, Angela, Sheila, Pam and Janet. One last big thank you to Mam & Grace who spent many an unseen hour sorting the prizes out and folding (along with a team of little helpers) the 100's of raffe tickets.
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