Initially I had contacted local food producers to see if they would donate some food and I was overwhelmed with the responses, everyone was amazingly generous.
In all we did 3 days of breakfasts with 2 sittings per day of anywhere between 26 -35 people and on the first day a third sitting when the local shoot came in at 4.30 for a 3 course meal.
Over the 2 days we served 193 meals and I have to say we were shattered at the end of it all.
We had tremendous support from Barclays Bank and in particular John Pinches who at the time was the bank’s Darlington-based agricultural area manager.
John kindly donated the services of some of his Agriculture managers, including our bank manager Ian Robson, and they were all brilliant and spent hours making toast, selling raffle tickets and running up and down stairs with everyones coats!!During the event we had 2 guests who were celebrating birthdays We presented them with chocolate cake, with a candle in and the whole household sang Happy Birthday!
Another guest who caused some excitement for bank manager Anthony Worth was the arrival of a local chap who just happened to be the best goal Keeper Leeds United have ever had, Nigel Martyn. Looking at the picture of Jean she quite enjoyed meeting him too!!All in all a fabulous 3 days, none of which I could have done without the help of some amazing friends who worked tirelessly. With the match funding from Barclays we raised £7720 so its a HUGE THANK YOU to Barclays Bank, to wonderful friends and all the lovely people who bought tickets and came along to support us.
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