Following the success of the ball we organised in 2006, we decided to do the same again this year with the hope that we could at least match the money raised last time.
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.

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