28th August 2010

Tops Day Nurseries operate eleven children’s nurseries situated throughout Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Somerset. At Tops we provide nursery care for babies from 3 months to children aged 5 years. We also provide care for older children aged 5 – 11 years in our mini beast club.

We held a summer fete at our Portsmouth nursery on Saturday 28th August 2010, to help raise money for CRY and Cancer Research. We opened our doors to the families who attend our nursery and also to our local community.

Children enjoyed watching a puppet show put on by staff, whilst eating ice creams, candy floss and chocolate marshmallows which they helped make.

Our cook baked cakes for our cake stall and parents donated some too. We also had a competition to guess the weight of the cake, where one of our parents won the fruit cake which weighed 1.2 kilos.

We held a raffle on the day which helped us raise £175 on raffle tickets alone, so we would like to thank our local businesses who donated towards the raffle.

We raised a total of £460.00 on the day, which we have split equally between both charities, plus £37.41 raised from sales of CRY merchandise.

Jade Missing

Covering Nursery Manager