Many many thanks to everyone who helped with the joint Christmas skittles and pub games fund raiser evening last Saturday run together with Farlow & Oreton Village Hall Committee. Help included setting up and breaking down, collecting the Skittle Alley (thanks to Jim from the Village Hall Committee for providing the transport), collecting and making up raffle prizes, selling raffle tickets, running the skittles competition, pin the nose on the reindeer and various games, doorman, organising and running the bar (thanks James), making and selling cakes and puds.
We had a reasonable turnout and everyone who came along enjoyed themselves. Even with slightly disappointing numbers we managed to raise a profit of just over £200 to be split between the Village Hall Committee and Cleehill Bridleways Group.
I have even had offers of a “contribution” from people who could not attend so thank you to them.
It would have been nice to see a few more local riders at the event as we are doing it for them and without funds we are very limited in what we can do. We will need to organise another event in the Spring to raise some funds and hopefully we can “persuade” more local riders to come along.