The
evening was a great success, with a Disco, buffet and many great raffle
prizes, including 11 holidays to La Manga Club and Marbella, Spain;
Tenerife; Portugal; Cyprus; Normandy, France; hotel in Jersey; and a 4-day
break in a beautiful 5-star hotel in the Lake District.
We also had signed football
shirts from England, Chelsea, Manchester United and Scott Parker, who played
for Newcastle.
Teddy Sheringham at West Ham
also sent us signed football shirts, and we had a signed photo from Steven
Gerrard at Liverpool and 6 signed footballs from Charlton, Millwall,
Manchester United and West Ham.
Crystal Palace sent us
Directors' Box tickets for one of their home games this season.
Along
with these fantastic prizes we had 60 others. Superdrug supplied us
with a big Dove Hamper, and enough make up and facial scrubs to put together
50 goody bags which we sold.
Waitrose gave us vouchers, as
did Sainsbury’s - and we had beauty vouchers and haircut vouchers.
There
were theatre
tickets; bottles of whiskey and Champagne signed by Tony Blair; signed
Richard Littlejohn book; Cheese Hampers; beautiful links bracelet; two
children’s bikes; and the Daily Mail supplied us with at least 25
other items including Royal Worcester coffee sets, hair dryers and many
other exciting things.
CRY Representative Rob Thorne
gave a brief talk about CRY, making people aware and talking about the great
work CRY does.
He also talked about the CRY
screening program, and the screening event which is being held at the same
Sports Hall on August 19th in memory of Adam Donnelly, by Julie
and Jed Donnelly (Adam’s parents). It was wonderful to meet them and
we were grateful for their support.
Lots of people who attended
have shown so much interest which really made Rob's talk so worthwhile.
We were so proud that so many
of our family and Ryan’s friends came to our Charity Night in Ryan’s memory.
We are happy to donate all the proceeds we made on that evening to CRY - the
amount being £9200.
We have already
been asked about next year's event, which we will be more than happy to
arrange and continue to support CRY, who are such a worthy cause.
Barbara and John Darby
