Quiz night held in memory of Fred and Mary Robinson

You know what it's like even when you have a party, you worry that no one will to turn up, well at least I do (maybe that's just because I'm a Billy-no-mates). I needn't have worried though as 11 teams took part in the quiz. Most of it went smoothly, had a dispute or two over the answers which were easily sorted. But it seems that everyone had a fun evening. Special thanks to Liam Peskett, Jamie Gillen and Charlotte Fogg who worked continuously all night. Teenagers often get bad press but here were three lovely, hard-working ones who each gave up their Saturday night to raise money for charity. I couldn't have done it without you.

Tony Harrison and Alan Carter were in the winning team - Well done to them and their 6 other team members. They won after a difficult tie-break question. Hope you enjoy your prizes. The team that came second did brilliantly too - there were only 3 people in their team! Well done - Remind me to be in your team next time we go to a quiz.

The Pot of Gold (£127) was won by Paul Law from South Thames College. Paul kindly donated £27 back to the CLT. Thanks Paul.

The main raffle prizes were won by: Mrs Dubis (Mobile phone), J. Sidwell (Wine selection), Mark Sellis (£20 Sainsbury's voucher), Marie Gillen (Bowling vouchers) and Fred Robinson (W.H. Smiths voucher - which was put back into the auction and raised a further £10). Sorry I didn't take down all the winners names for smaller prizes.

Thanks to everyone who donated items and their time to help me. In total the whole event cost only £12 to put on. Everything including the hall, food, bar, raffle, auction and tombola prizes was donated by individuals and companies.

I did well too in the auction - My husband, Mark, bid on and won the Green and Blacks chocolate hamper (Bang goes the diet - Hello chocolate heaven!) and my friend Paula surprised me by bidding on the floatation session and giving it to me at the end of the night. I must say I'm going to really enjoy that. Maybe I could eat the chocolate whilst in the floatation tank hmmmm......

The total raised was £1316, every penny of this will be donated to the Trust as there are no overheads to pay out. Barclay's Bank sponsored the event and matched the first £250, pound for pound. What a great donation. Thank you Paula Callanan for being their representative and thank you Barclay's.


Thanks for giving so generously, I hope you all had fun too. If you did please click on comment at the bottom of this article and write a message.

Total raised £1856.74

Thanks to the generous companies and individuals who who supplied raffle and auction items

Sainsbury's - £20 gift voucher
Bar less - free buffet for all attending
AMF bowling Croydon
Diggerland - one adult voucher
Sealife - family pass
Colin Robinson mobile phone
Vue cinema - 8 tickets
Addington Palace - Floatation therapy
Green and Blacks - Chocolate hamper
Tony Harrison - 6 bottles of wine
Tesco - £10 gift Voucher
Somerfield - 4 bottles wine
Coronation Street - Cast costume and autograph
Fairfield Halls - family pantomime tickets
Nestle - chocolate samples box

The night was dedicated to dad and to mum, who would have so loved the raffle and tombola.