Raising for Rainbows 2010

by Di · Published 13/07/2010 · Updated 20/11/2025

I’ve been busy lately updating the (rather basic!) Raising for Rainbows website – this is a charity comping day I help to organise, raising cash for the excellent Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People. So I thought this would be a good opportunity for me to blog about the event, spread the word and hopefully get some donations for our charity raffle!

I’ve been a regular at ‘Comping’ Days with my friends for many years now, and in 2006 we decided to organise our own event. With a helping hand from the guys at Accolade Publishing, COMP PRIDE was born. Held at Pride Park in Derby, this was a huge success, but it took a lot of hard work and the venue was super expensive so we took a year off in 2008, returning on a smaller scale with ‘Raising for Rainbows’ in 2009. At last year’s event we raised a huge £3560 for the Hospice, and of course we’d like to do better than that in 2010!

This year’s shindig is on Sunday 17th October at Mickleover Court Hotel in Derbyshire. We have just a few tickets left so do email us if you’re interested! There will be loads going on:

quizzes and competitions (some easy, some ridiculously hard!)
bingo (featuring my special ‘bingo handbag’)
guest speakers (last year we had Jane from Compers Grapevine, Steve from Compers News, Kevin from the London Competitors Club and top comper Pam Crampton)
our fabulous charity raffle!

We rely on donations for the raffle prizes, so if you’re able to help us out that would be great. A list of current sponsors and prizes is on the Raising for Rainbows website, but we’re hoping to add plenty more before October!

Whilst updating the site I noticed that Rainbows has a fancy new logo and website, as well as Facebook and Twitter pages. On their website there’s a competition to win a Giant Rainbows bear and a bumper box of muffin and flapjack treats by naming the Rainbows Bear. All entries submitted will be voted on by staff and children at Rainbows who will be picking their favourite names – a winner will be drawn at random from a list of shortlisted entries. They welcome donations of any amount for entering this competition and it closes on 30th August at midday. The link is http://www.rainbows.co.uk/get-involved/competition …good luck!