Party Time!

A couple of weeks ago Alice held a fundraiser at a her Grandma's community centre. She had arranged a French-themed fair selling knitted items (hand-made by her family) as well as a tombola with donated prizes from various shops in Wokingham as well as residents. The event lasted all day and she managed to raise an incredible £1060! We'd like to thank everyone who donated items (especially the knitters!) and everyone that went along on the day, we really appreciate your support.

Last Thursday we continued our fundraising with a party at Revolution in Reading. They had kindly allowed us to use the space free of charge because it was a charity event and had even donated a 4 person cocktail masterclass for the tombola. All five of us managed to meet up beforehand and had a good catch up and even had time to talk about organising some outdoor training swims for the next few months in between all the girly gossiping! We were all feeling very nervous by this point, worrying that it was going to be a disaster and nobody was going to turn up. We tried to reassure each other but there was definitely a lot of anxiety about the forthcoming evening.

We put on our Mark Evison Foundation t-shirts and a brave smile and all headed out to Revs. After a slow start we peaked at around 40 guests and we all breathed a sigh of relief. It was an excellent night with lots of ridiculous dancing, mostly courtesy of Izzy! We hope everyone enjoyed the evening and we managed to raise an excellent £260.

We'd like to thank Thorntons, The Body Shop, Jamie Oliver's Italian, Pizza Hut, The Entertainer and Vue for their donations of tombola prizes, as well as Revs for giving us the venue, tombola prize and some generous drinks deals for the evening. A huge thank you also goes to everyone who came down and made the evening such a success.

We're all heading off to University again over the next couple of weeks and the training will start to step up a gear so wish us luck both in the water and out! Keep an eye out for updates on here/Twitter/Facebook and maybe even in more local newspapers :D