The Eye Fund A charity to support people losing their vision.
About our fund-raising efforts.
I think the people in Birkenhead must be getting fed up with us by now. Only kidding—they have been very generous.
This was a new craft fair that hadn’t been there before and we were offered a free table as we are a charity. We couldn’t miss this opportunity to get to know other stall-holders and raise even more for the charity.
It was over the 2 days but only from 11:00am to 3:00pm. We finished the weekend taking £225.00.
We really had our work cut out that day. 10:00am we landed at Central Station in Liverpool, set up the banners, started to collect until 12:00 noon when our relief crew arrived. Then we dashed to Ashville Lodge in Birkenhead to take part in the Craft Fair.
We had arranged to set the stall up on Friday and for someone to attend the stall for us till we arrived at 12:30pm. By 4:00pm we had had enough and were glad to see other stalls packing up. Altogether it was a very successful day; £341.80 from Central Station and £221.50 from the craft fair.
We were at Cheltenham Race Course for the whole weekend, not for the racing this time, but with the Ladies Association of Barbershop Singers. We took everything we had to sell as we knew there would be over 3000 people there for the weekend, mainly ladies.
We sold mainly jewellery and some cards and framed pictures and we made £860 all together. It was a strenuous weekend, but worth while.
Now this was a fun night. We had a Race Night at Victoria Hall in Higher Bebington. Everything was going well and we were just about to start when the DVD player failed to play.
Imagine, a race night with no racing.
However, one bright ‘punter’ brought their laptop in and managed to get the night off to a good start.
We had a hot-pot supper laid on; that was delicious. Plenty of donations helped us take over £200 on the raffle. The local shopkeepers were very generous. The betting was quick and heavy before each race.
Everyone enjoyed themselves and we were the overall winners taking £1200 on the night.
Thanks Beryl and everyone who helped.
On 8th July Carol and Paul went to West Haddon in Leicestershire.
Paul’s niece, Jane, belongs to the West Haddon Players. The group who put on several performances each year donate the proceeds to a designated charity. This year’charity was The Eye Fund.
Carol and Paul were presented with a cheque for £1500 at the player’s annual barbeque. What amazing generosity!
Another 40 hours of counselling!
Thanks from all of us.
After some furious Ebay bidding, our signed Sigur Rós “Hlemmur” CD/DVD was finally won by Neil Walker, who paid an astounding £360 for it. Well done, Neil!
We’ve just added the following item to Ebay: Limited Edition copy of Hlemmur, by Sigur Rós.
This unique version of Hlemmur was signed especially to raise money and awareness for The Eye Fund, which we are obviously thrilled about.
Also included is a selection of rare promotional CDs from the Takk… and Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust albums.
Please head over to Ebay and bid on this item!
ebay: Signed Sigur Rós “Hlemmur” CD/DVD. [Update: now closed.]
The latest fund raising venture was a Race Night organised by David. The venue was the Marine Football club in Crosby (where David and Anne-Marie had their evening do for their wedding).
The evening was a great success and a real family happening. Everyone from Phil’s Nan, Paul’s brother from Leicestershire, Jake from Blackburn, and not forgetting Jamie, Ciaran and 2 year-old William. Everyone had a brilliant time and a lovely hot-pot supper (sorry Phil).
After expenses, the amount raised was over £700. Well Done David! (even if he has a few more grey hairs now)
Now! What’s next???
~ Carol Sherry
On September 7th 2008, the Eye Fund Sisters (also known as: Helen, Anne-Marie, and Lianne), took part in the annual Liverpool 5k run around Sefton Park.
All three finished with a personal best time and at the time of writing they’ve raised £640! Well done, girls.
We had a marathon collection at Central Station, Liverpool on 16th August 2008.
Paul and Carol were there from 10am to 4pm with buckets, joined by Helen, Russell, Marie, Steve Tam (from the Capitol Chinese Restaurant) and Andy Morgan (Steve’s friend). It was a long day but the public were very generous. Andy ceratinly added a special something when he arrived. The grand total was £465.09.
We think Simon would have been proud of our stamina.
Take a look at some pictures of the event in our gallery.
