Raising for Rainbows 2010!
On Sunday 17 October my friends and I organised our third East Midlands comping day to raise money for Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People. Our first event, held at Pride Park in 2007, raised £3237, and last year’s in Mickleover raised £3560. We were determined to raise even more this time, so the girls had been busy for months rounding up fabulous raffle prizes from our generous sponsors – we had a Dyson, a Warner Hotels break, a Nintendo Wii, DeLonghi coffee machines, perfumes, handbags, beauty hampers, spa days and literally hundreds of other prizes. Marie had spent weeks making the amazing hampers of goodies, we couldn’t even fit any of them on the prize table!
As two of our usual seven-strong team had (rather cheekily!) gone on holiday, we had to recruit help from London Competitors Club, Accolade Publishing and Compers News regulars to make sure all the goodie bags and prizes were ready for the 140 compers arriving at 9.30am. As the compere, I needed a meticulously detailed timetable of the day’s events (which I lost several times) and luckily most of the day ran according to plan. We had quizzes, spot prizes, random draws, bingo (featuring the infamous bingo handbag and tiny balls) and of course, the giant charity raffle. The hotel let us down with their weedy lunch but we hopefully made up for that with some huge slabs of chocolate cake for pudding! And talking of puddings, Matthew Walker kindly donated 250 Christmas puds, so all the guests went home with one.
After Paula from Rainbows had drawn the hundreds of winning raffle tickets, we revealed the amount that had been raised for the Hospice – a whopping £3800!
To end the day, our friend Fairby had organised a fantastic finale for us featuring loads of balloons being released and popped – five lucky ticket winners then had to come to the front of the room and pop their octopus balloons as fast as they could – it was certainly a sight to behold… Vicky was our champion and walked away with a giant Christmas Hamper, bottle of champagne and Good Food Show tickets, and the 4 runners up all got a Christmas tree.
Had a brilliant day, it was very well organised. Many thanks to everyone involved. Lovely to see the photos too 🙂
Thanks for all your kind words, I’m glad everybody had such a good time!
A very big “thank you” to everyone involved in the organising and running of the RFR comp day. All the hard work paid off as everyone attending had fun whilst raising money for such a good cause. I can’t wait for the next one…
Many Many thanks. What a fantastic day and the food was not a prob… getting my prizes back ment taking up most of the space on the train home though lol 🙂
Many thanks go to all the organisers was a wicked day
Had a good laugh as well. Perfection!
Thank you to everybody who made it such a successful day, to Paula from Rainbows who gave us such a moving talk about their work, and to Fairby who can do things with a balloon that I didn’t think were humanly possible!
It was a great day, thanks for all hard work to make the event happen.
It was a brilliant day! Also great to see that we had fun while raising money for such a worthwhile cause. Thanks to everyone involved in organising such a great event.
A great day was had by all I think :o) and a personal thank you to Marie for making up all those hampers for all those weeks ;O) lol