Thank You For Helping Us Raise £1934.50 For Macmillan!
On Friday 14th October we held our Charity Quiz and Curry Night in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. The event was only announced a couple months prior and sold out within a week. With it having been 12 months since our last one, the night was a big success, so thank you to everyone who came along. Hopefully we can start hosting them more regularly again soon!
On arrival, all guests were encouraged to buy a raffle ticket, for which all funds went towards the charity. They were then seated in their teams in the Railway Restaurant before tucking into a delicious homemade curry. Once food was devoured, Mark Cleary – founder of the Garden Centre – hosted the well-loved and anticipated quiz.
With a proportion of each ticket price going straight to the charity, £635 was already raised before the event and a further £344 was raised through the raffle sales, bringing the charity total up to £979 from the event night alone.
The rest of the money raised for the charity was raised through the Macmillan Coffee Morning on 30th September and other fundraising efforts over the last few months. A total of £335.50 was raised during their Macmillan Coffee Morning and a further £600 from other fundraising efforts.
Mark Cleary, our Founder and Quiz-Host said, “It was such a pleasure to invite everyone back in for our Charity Quiz and Curry Night as it’s an event I always look forward to. We’re very proud of the total raised through the event for Macmillan and want to thank everyone who came along and offered extra donations through the raffle.
“We enjoyed hosting both events and, as always, seeing so many familiar faces as well as new ones. There are many more events coming up for Christmas which we can’t wait to get stuck into. It will be a fantastic way to round off a great year.”
Congratulations to the winners of this years’ Quiz, the ‘Grown Up Gang’ who won by just half a point. The competition couldn’t have been closer! Each individual in the team received a Garden Centre Voucher.
We have a number of Christmas events lined up before the end of the year, all selling out fast! We have a limited number of spaces left for our Festive VIP Evening and we’ll be putting on our popular Festive Parade again this year which is free to attend – you’ll want to add this one to your calendar!
For more information and to keep up to date with our future events, visit the events page: https://www.oldrailwaylinegc.co.uk/event-directory/
