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120 tickets were
sold for the event at the Woodlands Banqueting Centre in Swanley
and the evening was a wonderful success – we raised £6,370
for CRY which was much more than we had expected.
So many kind and
wonderful people attended the dinner, gave raffle prizes or
organised items that could be auctioned on the evening. It has
made us realise once again that we are blessed with a wonderful
circle of friends and family.
Everyone sat down
to a delicious 4-course dinner washed down with a couple of
glasses of wine. Jed did the after dinner speech where he gave
a brief talk on what we as a family are doing with CRY, what we
hope to achieve and the success of last year’s screening event
that we organised. |
Jed, Sian, Julie and Lisa at the
Adam Donnelly Memorial Ball |
Our very dear friend Sandra
Clark then acted as auctioneer for the evening and, again, she did a
fantastic job in getting people to bid for items. We had 10 items to be
auctioned which, in total, raised over £4,000 towards the evening.
Sandra then asked everyone to
raise their glasses to Adam who, had he been there, would have loved being
the centre of attention and the guest of honour for the evening!
It was then down to the main
business of the evening which was getting onto the dance floor. We had
really good feedback from the evening and hope that everyone who attended
had as good a time as we did. We will definitely be organising another ball
in a couple of years.
Julie Donnelly
