The Pink Party

Friday 10th December was the night of our 3rd Pink Party!!  Many of my twitter friends, will have seen lots of tweets about the Pink Party - excited tweets when the tickets went on sale, moaning tweets when we realised our raffle donation requests weren't getting much response, more moaning about slow ticket sales, even more moaning tweets when we thought we might have to postpone it, then slightly more upbeat tweets again when we decided to just 'go for it'!

On the night, we had 96 paying guests, about 40 down on last year's party, but I can honestly say it was the best Pink Party yet!  From a fundraising point of view, another table of sold tickets would have been great, but tremendous fun was had by all :-)

When we say Pink Party, we mean 'PINK' - everything from the welcome drinks (Cava and pomegranate juice) to napkins, table cloths, balloons, and of course the outfits, were pink!

The evening kicked off with a fun table game, and I recommend this as an ice-breaker at any party - all you need is: jelly babies, spaghetti and a steady hand ;-)

 We were so lucky to have the support of some great entertainers!  Firstly, Little Britain tribute act, Littler Britain (www.littlerbritain.com) did the rounds between the tables as Andy and Lou - they had everyone in stitches, loved it!  The band, No Secret (www.nosecret.org), were also amazing and had everyone up on the dance floor.

Littler Britain returned to run the the most entertaining raffle I've ever seen!! We had some great raffle prizes from Wagamama, P&G, Waitrose, Nando's and more - and Nando's also supported us by donating chicken wings for the tables, plus a fab hamper which was auctioned for £120!  This is me with 'Vicky' and 'Emily' :-)

Our silent auction, including a pink Fitbug (kindly donated by @Fitbug_ltd), tickets to The Dungeons, and a Daytona prokarting session for 2, raised an additional £150!

The pennies are still being counted, but we raised around £1300 for Cancer Research UK and after all the dramas over ticket sale, we are delighted with the amount raised!  We're looking forward to The Pink Party 2011!

For more information on our fundraising, please visit our website www.crukwalton.org our facebook page www.facebook.com/crukwalton or follow us on twitter http://twitter.com/crukwalton

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N x