Fund Raising Night....Great Success!

First of all, please can Jackie and I thank everyone who helped, attended and donated to fund raising night....you all made it a great success! Thank you very very much!

What a brilliant turn out it was as well, great to see so many friends together having a good time and helping raise over £800 for the hospice....YES £800 made on the night!!! A special thank you to the friends who helped out on the night and a massive thank you to The Score who not only provided some fantastic entertainment but gave me their nights fee of £140 back as a donation....thank you lads....everyone has commented on how good you were....That's entertainment! (Pete, hope the blisters have healed!)

The setting up started mid day, The Score eager to get going. Thanks Chris for helping me with laying the room out.

DJ Fearney arrived with his vinyls....yes vinyls....how good is that! Thanks Steve the disco was superb and your auctioning skills were impeccable! Steve auctioned off the House of Commons whisky for £70 and raised another £25 for the GMTV pack (decided to auction rather than eBay it!) Thank you to the buyers.


Everyone arrived early and soon got into the swing of things. The helpers were soon in top gear!

Jackie and Ian stood the door welcoming everyone and collecting unpaid ticket money! Ticket profit £210

Sam and Gail sold and marked the quizzes making £68 and also went round with a scratch card game raising £20 for the charity and £20 for Tony!

Teresa took control of Roll the Dice and netted £59.50. Congratulations to Chris and Steph who won the £100 Photographer session.

A really nice touch to the evening was provided by Margaret, a Hospice volunteer since it opened! Thank you Margaret and the Hospice for the support and kind words.

As the night went on £120 of donations came in and the brilliant Score handed back their £140!

Jackie did the prize draw round and collected £100.... THE GRAND TOTAL COMING TO £812.50

The rest of the night was all music, drinking....and lots of fun!

Jackie mingling!

Social drinkers - Lee , Jackie (mingling again!), Dave and Liz

Rachel and Jane happy, Nat being rude!

Tomo's Team winners of the Sport's Quiz. Rumour has it they phoned a friend!

Claire, Daved and Sally showing off their John Eastwood Rosettes!

Lee, Nicola, Lynn and Neil....Mum would have loved the night!

....and there was even a surprise visit from the PROCLAIMERS! I WOULD WALK FIVE HUNDRED MILES AND I WOULD........

THANK YOU EVERYONE, I LOVED THE NIGHT AND I HOPE YOU ALL DID TOO.

PS. Did anyone take any pictures? If you did can you send them to me please so I can add them to this post.

THE NEXT DAY

After a late night, me and Jackie had to get up early (6:30) and get back to the hard bit....training!

Jackie was doing a 10k run at Pride Park, Derby, so I cycled there to watch her. This was her first 10k and also the first run for the Heanor Running Club, making her time of 0:54:29 even more impressive. Well done duck!

After the race I still had another 35 miles to do to keep up with my training schedule so I set of into Derbyshire. I did a right here, a left there and before I knew it....I was going up the steepest hill in the world and ended up in Crich!

That was tough! Managed to do 65 miles in total, hard but I felt quite good considering. The weeks aim was 150 miles but I actually did 157, so pleased that I had met another weeks target. Only six weeks to go so lots more miles to pull in yet!!!