Quills News & Reviews

 
2007 AGM - Selection of Committee and Nominated Charity

This year's AGM is on 8th November, before our Alpaca speaker.  The Chair will give a brief summary of the year and the Treasurer will present the club financial statement.  Members will then have the chance to select the committee and charity for the coming year.

We would like to thank committe members standing down: Anita Brooks, our fantastic Chair of several years; Ann Were, programme coordinator responsible for booking excellent speakers and arranging club nights; and Carole Day who has for a number of years looked after event publicity.  They have all contributed to the success of our club and will be sorely missed.

This does mean that we have several posts to fill, so please give it some thought, and if you are interested in helping in any capacity, see one of the committee before the meeting.

 

 
2007 Nominated Charity - Hearing Dogs for Deaf People - £3300 raised

I am pleased to announce that this year we have raised £3300 for our nominated charity, Hearing Dogs for Deaf People.  Our target was £5000, the amount required to sponsor a dog throughout its working life, so we are a little short - hopefully we will have a chance to top that up.

Our first fundraising event was the June Quiz, which raised £400.  The Quiz night on 2nd November saw another £400 added to this year's total.  Thanks go to Anita Brooks for hosting the evenings and providing all the questions and the committee and helpers for organising the evening, providing cakes and raffle prizes, etc.

Our main event of the summer was the Barn Dance.  The hall was packed to the rafters for this September Harvest Supper celebration which raised £500.  Thanks go to Pauline Hearn and her team for organising an excellent event.

Pauline has also been busy using her artistic talents to further the fundraising drive.  Her beautiful handmade Christmas cards have been very popular and have raised £200, and her skill with a needle led to a donation of £150 when Pauline produced a tapestry for a publishing company in double-quick time.

A collection outside the Ipswich Town football ground before and after the match raised nearly £200 - thank you to all the collectors involved.

Thanks to all of you who have supported or donated prizes to our club night raffles.  The total raised from club nights, including donations from speakers on the sale of goods during the evening, was in the region of £350.

Finally we would like to offer a big thank you to Shaun Whymark who has passed to us the £1080 he has raised for Hearing Dogs to add to our total.