Quiz Night by Emma

quiz night

Well where do I start ? Quiz night which was held on the 24th march at The Rare breeds centre. It was attended by approx 150 people, Sarah and I were overwhelmed by the support shown by so many and words will never express how grateful we are to everybody who attended and for those who didn't attend but still purchased raffle tickets. massive thanks also to Sarahs husband James and our C-O-T computer expert Adam and to my amazing family my sister Heather and my mum and dad June and Phil, without them assisting us with the bar, sale of raffle tickets and cook books and generally being a huge support we would not have got through the evening.

Preparation of the hall took five hours but i hope you will agree when I say it looks good.

Sarah and I learnt the importance of being organised as months of preparation meant that things went together smoothly and apart from a slight blip on the bar and till (who would have thought the bar would be that busy)we sailed through the evening, Sarah was amazing on the microphone entertaining everybody.

I ran around marking papers, seeing to peoples needs including collecting glasses of water for Sarah that never actually reached her. somewhere sits her glass of water but where nobody knows.

It appeared the questions went down well, the teams responded to the answers with either a cheer or a boo, banter went backwards and forwards and at one point I stood thinking did we really organise this? everybody was laughing and appearing to enjoy themselves yet we were raising money and awareness of our trek too.

We had made the radio that morning with somebody (still unsure who) wishing us good luck, this kind of gesture keeps us going.
The raffle was a huge success which only happened due to the generosity of so many companies and people, 20 winning prizes meant that 20 people were happy.

Well of course its only fair i mention the winning team yes CONGRATULATIONS to the odd squad who some would know as holly cottage, well done holly. runners up were The Mariners who sure did give holly a run for their money.

So of course what everyone is waiting for the total amount raised, well on the actual night we raised £642.90 but with raffle tickets sold beforehand I have great pleasure in telling you all that we raised £795.90

wow, it really was beyond our wildest dreams and I know we keep saying it but THANK YOU.

our total amount raised to date is £2042.78

We await Easter at The Farm now where we will be out and about meeting people.