First Fundraising event went off with a bang!

Head of Step by Step school Donna Fidler with me at the Fundraiser curry event for the school

Am so proud to announce that the fundraiser event I put on with a few other parents from the
Step by Step Parent's Association in East Grinstead near Joel's school on 17th March was in one parent's words 'beyond Step by Step's wildest dreams!. 

The 130 seats in the restaurant was full and the atmosphere was buzzing and people were being turned away!   I can't believe we did it and are now able to put this money towards a white board or other games/ipads which the school needs which is what I set out to do in a blog you may have read a few months ago after I'd been to the AGM meeting at the school.  It hit me that this school really does rely on charities for equipment and other things apart from running costs and staff fees.  So  thtat's really quite a lot of stuff they need.

Earlier on in the organisation to get this curry on the road I had Hyacinth Bouquet on the phone to me from the church I attend who was concerned my lunch was falling on her Lingfield lunch day, but I had to keep my date firm as we'd booked it with parents and actually it was my loss as she has a regular following. 

She called me the day after the lunch and was quick to give me her dates for the year for her other lunches as she'd heard my lunch went very well.  I was even quicker to point out that I had a child with severe autism and I didn't know if I'd be doing another lunch in a year let alone six months time!!!  I don't know if you realise it but it's a big thing to just sort out some paperwork on your desk if you have a child with autism and a few others let alone try and get into competition with other charity lunches in the area!  I didn't know if I'd get 20 people to this gig never mind the 130 lovely people who all turned up !

I am so thankful to all the local businesses and other businesses who sponsored this event and gave to the raffle prizes.  Also thank you to everyone who came along and those who just sent money to the school who couldn't come.    Thanks to Charlotte, Carmen and Claire some other mothers who helped to make this event run so smoothly and to Saleem at Nizam who has offered me a job in marketing!!

I hope that this will be an annual event for the Parent's Association and am happy to have helped this wonderful school and these amazing children who some of them sat so well at the event and this is all because of the school they go to.  Thank you Step by Step!!!xx