The annual Christmas draw took place on Wednesday 21st December at 11 am. I would like to thank everybody who was involved in raising these monies by either purchasing, selling, donating prizes etc. the Christmas raffle raised £1,477 for the WISH Appeal this year!
I would like to thank all the students from the McCarthy School of Music on behalf of all the resdients and staff at Lincolnshire House for strarring in a concert to enable them to raise money for the WISH Appeal, it was a great success and rasied £516 for the centre. Vanessa McCarty and her daughter, Rachel presented Ann Beedham and Marcus Cragg with the cheque on 21st December 2011. Once again thank you from us all at Lincolnshire House.
On the 2nd November Glenis, Mandy and the residents of Appleby House/Beech Grove organised an Halloween night. The Bootleggers kindly entertained all at the centre for an hour and donated £20 to our appeal. Hot dogs and halloween cakes were available as refreshments, the evening was very lively and all the residents and guests had an extremely enjoyable night, overall monies raised for the WISH Appeal and the activities was £182. Our thanks go to everybody involved in organising and performing on the night.
Lincolnshire House were presented with a cheque by Mr Ted Houghton on behalf of Holme Hall Golf Club for £2,884.28. These monies were raised througout the Captain (Ted Houghton) and President's year. Thank you for choosing Lincolnshire House as the charity to benefit from the golf club and our thanks to everybody who took part in raising this tremendous amount of money.
A ladies luncheon was held at the White Heather where Ian Millard (Manager) was asked to give a talk about the centre and it's history. Ian was accompanied by Vicki Crowther whose suggestion it was for the talk to be about Lincolnshire House. On the day monies were raised to the total of £217.30 through various fund raising activities.
A big thank you goes to Mr Paul Altoft and Mr Andrew Trippet, they competed the Windsor Half Marathan in aid of Lincolnshire House on 25th September and raised £312 for our Appeal. Thank you from all at Lincolnshire House.
The second quiz night of the year raised £184 for our funds which was organised by Benji Taylor and Colin Altoft. Thanks to everybody who took part and supported the event. Again thank you to Colin for providing the buffet.
A sponsored dog walk was held on 14th September raising £631.50 for the appeal, the event was organised by Ann Fawcett and Ella Wislocka with help from volunteers. Thank you to everybody who raised this money by attending on the night. Well done to everybody!
On 31st July 2011 Lincolnshire House held it's annual summer fete, the weather was fantastic and we had numerous visitors on the day which kept everybody busy. Graham Taylor officially opened the fete at 12 Noon. Our thanks go to Graham and his wife for spending the day with us and of course to everybody who helped and supported the day, your time is greatly appreciated. The day raised over £2,000 for our appeal.
Another successful event for Mandy and Andy Hickling raising £341 in the process for the WISH Appeal. Thank you to everybody who took part in this event and supported it, also to all the companies that donated raffle prizes.
Some of the residents at Lincolnshire House took part with the help of Mandy from activities in their second swimathon raising £226.90 for the WISH Appeal. Well done to everybody who took part and thank you from all of us for raising these monies.
Mr. Millard (Manger) and Mr. Oliver were presented with a cheque for £82 at a recent meeting of the Gunness/Burringham Women's Institute. Many thanks to all the members who contributed.
A big thanks of appreciation goes to the North East Lincs CP Group for presenting a donation of £1,000 to the WISH Appeal. The cheque was presented to Ian by Mrs. Edna Coulbeck and Mrs. Susan Lawson.
A big thank you goes to all the members of the Guitar Club. A concert was kindly organised with all donations on the night going to the WISH Appeal, the night raised £79.34. Thank you to everybody who contributed to this successful night and to all who supported the event.
Mr. Stuart McKenzie presented the residents with a cheque for £473.75 on behalf of Bottesford Football Club,Dolphin Public House, Black Beauty, Tata Steel and NSD. Our thanks go to everybody who volunteered their time to raise this for the WISH Appeal.
An Easter Fayre was held in the activities building on 20th April, residents participated in an Easter Bonnet Parade. Tombola, cake and various other stalls were on show and a raffle was held later on in the day resulting in a grand total of £345 being raised, thank you to everybody who took part and particiapated in this event.
A quiz night organised by Benji Taylor (resident at Lincolnshire House) raised £389 for the WISH Appeal, our thanks go to everybody who was involved in this event.
Our thanks go to Mr Saddington for putting the WISH Appeal forward as one of the charities to benefit from his Company, Tata's charity donation. Thank you to both Mr Saddington and Tata for the £250 donation.
A Motwon night was held at Redbourne Club in aid of monies allocated to activites to enable the staff to purchase new items required. Our thanks go to Mr. Chris Watson and everybody who helped him raise these monies for the centre.
The proceeds Of £500 from a Harvest Festival held at Messingham Mehodist Chuch were presented to Mr. Ian Millard on Sunday 6th February. The residents and staff would like to thank everybody who was inovlved in raising these monies and choosing The WISH Appeal as one of the chairties to benefit from these monies raised.
