Posted by Sarah 8-10-2011

Last Thursday night saw Emma and I host our big quiz evening, this took quite a bit of organizing but it was defiantly well worth it. It took Emma and I from 2pm Thursday afternoon until 6.30pm to get the hall ready, with 16 teams booked we had to get it right. With a maximum of 8 per team we estimated that we had about 128 people take part which is is amazing. Many of our residents took part as well and they thoroughly enjoyed themselves and its nice to see them involved. It also shows what raising this money for our charity is all about. The night kicked off at 7.30pm, with me reading out the questions whilst Emma was chief marker! We had 6 different rounds which inclued Music, TV & Film, Sport, Geography, Food & Drink and General Knowledge, we also had a picture round which was flags from around the world. After a couple of rounds we had a break to sell raffle tickets for our grand raffle and after a couple of more rounds we drew the raffle. All prizes were kindly donated by local companies, which we thank very much. Our 1st prize was £50 pounds worth of John Lewis vouchers  and congratulations to Hazel Payne, a volunteer in our gift shop who won these. 2nd prize was won by Steve & Angela Ransley, they won £25 in cash, Steve and Angela kindly donated there winnings to our cause so we would like to thank them very much, and appreciate their donation. Emma and I feel the night went really well, we wanted it to be enjoyable, fun and have a relaxed atmosphere so I hope this came across to all those that took part. As well as the quiz, raffle, prize for the best team name we had James selling homemade cakes off his hostess trolley! James had been busy the day before making chocolate shortcake which is yummy but deadly! Emma's mum June made cheese scones and we also had my friends mum - Lynn donate some cupcakes. These went onto Jame's trolley and once he got his pinny on James got busy going round all the tables selling the homemade goodies with all profits going towards our charity.
So it leaves me to announce the winners which was Jerry Kenwards team, Jerry is our operations manager at The Canterbury Oast Trust so well done to all on Jerry's team. The best team name went to The Quizzie Rascals.


Such a fantastic night and we managed to raise a whopping £485 this is just brilliant and Emma and I really didn't expect to raise this much. We would like to thank you all for coming along and showing your support we really would not be able to have reached this amazing total without you.


I would like to say a special thank you to:


John Lewis/Waitrose
Premier foods
Rimmel - Coty
Leeds Castle
Dickens World
Fitness First
Minners Farm Liveries
Tesco


Steve & Angela for donating back there raffle prize of £25


June for baking cheese scones
Lynn Hine for baking cupcakes
James for baking millionaires shortbread


and to all our helpers on the night.......


June and Phil
Heather
Adam
James and
Pete & Carl who ran the bar for the evening.


Thank you so much to everybody for making this event a success


Emma and Sarah