Homecall fundraising events and reports
Support for any events will be greatly appreciated. See list below for what’s on in the Bexhill area and how you can join in. Our grateful thanks go to everyone who has already kindly offered to help with donations, sponsorship, and making us beneficiaries of these activities.
If you have any fundraising ideas such as holding a coffee morning, boot sale, plant sale or anything to raise even a few £’s, or if you would like to join our fundboosting team please contact the Scheme Manager.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Saturday August 21st, 2010 from 10am til 3pm
Hastings Direct Summer Charity Fete at Collington Avenue Bexhill
Homecall will have a stand at this event, please come and support us.
ENTRY IS FREE
There will be a programme of family entertainment, competitions, children's activities and food outlets.
Tuesday September 28th, 2010 time to be decided
Indian Ocean Restaurant
Please put this date in your diary and support what we expect to be our last big fundraiser of 2010.
This should be an evening to enjoy, at the same time supporting Homecall through the generosity of The Indian Ocean Restaurant in Little Common. A must for those who enjoy Indian Cuisine!
More details to follow.
PAST EVENTS
Saturday July 24th, 2010
Bexhill Carnival
Perfect weather prevailed for this year's carnival procession and the town was treated to many a spectacle as the procession made it's way from Turkey Road to The Polegrove.
Homecall thanks all those who have contibuted towards making the day such a success, we are extremely grateful to have been chosen as one of the charities to benefit from the street collection this year.
Saturday July 17th, 2010
Little Common Business Association Fayre at St Martha's Church
The new venue for this year's fayre proved very successful on what was a lovely summer evening, albeit a little breezy!
Thanks to the many people who supported the Homecall stand buying our greetings cards and showing so much interest in the charity. The evening raised £28, but with the interest shown it is hoped several new volunteers will soon be enrolled and information on the support we offer will be passed on to several potential service users.
July 6th, 2010
Afternoon Cream Tea at 80 Cranston Avenue, Bexhill
On a lovely summer afternoon almost 100 people attended the event enjoying a cup of tea and homemade scones with strawberries, jam and clotted cream also browsing the many stalls. Guests included our Patron, Amanda Hamblin, Homecall clients and volunteers along with family and friends and other supporters of our charity. A heartfelt thankyou to you all for coming to the event, which was our main fundraiser of the year. We raised £829, which was fantastic. We are very grateful to all those who helped with the event, and especially to our hosts Rita and Barrie Wright whose lovely garden was admired by everyone who came. Events like these are a lot of hard work to organise but to be supported as we were makes it all worthwhile.
June 26th, 2010
Armed Forces Day Celebration
Homecall supported this wonderful event which was held on a most beautiful summer's day in Egerton Park. There was a good attendance by the public as well as a parade to be proud of.
Bexhill at it's best!
Our grateful thanks to all those who supported our stand helping us to raise £235 to enable us to continue to support Blind and Partially Sighted people living in Bexhill on Sea and the surrounding areas.
June 13th, 2010
Rotary Club of Bexhill Sponsored Walk
In ideal conditions the participants of this year's Rotary Club of Bexhill Sponsored Charity Walk once again made the most of this enjoyable walk. Fourteen walkers set out with 2 walkers covering 15 miles and 12 walkers covering 7 miles. Everyone completed their distances raising money to enable the charity to continue to support Blind and Partially Sighted people living in Bexhill and the surrounding area. The total raised for this year is not yet known, however the total for last year was a superb £606.95.
A very big thankyou to all our walkers!
January 22nd, 2010
Quiz Evening
Homecall held it's 3rd annual Quiz Evening on Friday 22nd January at Christchurch Methodist Church Hall. Despite a slow start with ticket sales, which was quite understandable bearing in mind the snowy weather conditions of the previous week or so, a late rush meant 63 people again enjoyed an evening at this popular event which included background music, supper and several Quiz rounds.
Our grateful thanks Barry Turnwell for affording us the use of the church hall, to all those who came, to those who organised the event and helped on the day and to our 'Quizzer', Bernice, who keeps the questions answerable ensuring enjoyment for all. With 15 teams of four and one team of three the odds were certainly against them, but well done to the 'Cole team' who were victorious despite having one less member in their team than everybody else.
The raffle was as successful as ever due to the generosity of all those who donated prizes and to Geof and Roger who sold tickets raising £172. We made a handsome profit overall of £562.44 for Homecall, which enables us to continue to offer support to Blind and Partially Sighted people living in and around Bexhill.
Thank you all very much for your support.
— Jenny Private
September 24th, 2009
Annual General Meeting
The 24th Annual General Meeting for Homecall was held on Thursday 24th September at Cooden Beach Sports and Social Club, 5 Withyham Road, Bexhill, TN39 3BD. The meeting was held at 10.30am, preceded by refreshments at 10am and followed by the Volunteer Long Service Awards which were presented by our Patron Amanda Hamblin. The meeting was well attended and applause welcomed two new Vice Presidents Anna Cole and John Dowling. Reports from the Chairman, Scheme Manager and Treasurer were all well received. If you would like a copy of the minutes of this meeting please contact the Scheme Manager, details can be found on the Contacts page of this site.
August 22nd, 2009
Summer Charity Fete
Good fun was had by all with a variety of entertainment supporting the many charity stalls on a beautiful summer's day. Homecall ran a Tombola and a Craft Stall and was well supported raising just over £100. Grateful thanks to our 7 wonderful volunteers who ran the event on a rota basis.
July 19th, 2009
The Senlac Classic Car Show & Craft Fayre
The Rotary Club of Senlac Car Show was, for the third year running, dogged by inclement weather. Gusty winds and squally showers destroyed many a display limiting the opportunity of the many stallholders to support the good work of Rotary. However, in good old British fashion, the show went on. The entertainment went ahead, braving the elements, and there was a good turn out of vintage cars which were of great interest to all. Homecall would like to thank The Rotary Club of Senlac for it's support through this event, enabling us to continue to support Blind and Partially Sighted people living in Bexhill and surrounding areas.'
June 12th, 2009
Homecall Open Gardens
Two lovely and very different gardens were open to the public in Bexhill on Friday 12th June from 2pm until 5pm.
25 Pear Tree Lane (new Open Garden for 2009)
The Clinches, Collington Lane East (opposite no. 70)
Homecall were very privileged to have had the opportunity to raise funds through the generosity of the owners of these two beautiful gardens. The event was well supported and enjoyed by all. Homecall raised a little over £430 and we would like to thank everyone who supported this event and, of course, Tony and Jacqui and Val and Ian to whom we are very grateful.
June 7th, 2009
Rotary Club of Bexhill Sponsored Walk
After early morning heavy rain the participants of this year's Rotary Club of Bexhill Sponsored Charity Walk were extremely lucky to once again walk in traditionally warm and sunny weather, a light breeze was also welcomed. Eighteen walkers from Homecall set out with 3 walkers covering 15 miles and 15 walkers covering 7 miles. All walkers completed their distances raising money to enable the charity to continue to support Blind and Partially Sighted people living in Bexhill and the surrounding area. The total raised is not yet known but will be added to this site in due course.
A very big thankyou to all our walkers!
April 24th - 26th 2009
Bexhill Amateur Theatrical Society Raffle
BATS (Bexhill Amateur Theatrical Society) chose to support Homecall with their recent production of 'Hound of the Baskervilles' which ran at the De la Warr Pavilion from the 24th to the 26th April. Homecall was invited to run a raffle at each performance and through their generosity and that of all those who donated our raffle prizes we raised a worthy £175. BATS made an additional donation of £50 and Homecall is grateful to them for their support.
April 3rd 2009, 10:30 – 12:30
Easter Coffee Morning and Plant Sale
Although the weather let us down with a damp and misty morning Homecall held a 'Coffee and a Hot Cross Bun' event for its 3rd fundraising event of the year at Cooden Beach Tennis Club on Friday 3rd April. The event was well attended and with the additional attraction of stalls of plants, books, cakes and greetings cards to buy along with a raffle, Homecall raised a little under £300. We were pleased to welcome our Patron Amanda Hamblin, a previous High Sheriff of East Sussex, to the event. Her support is much appreciated as is that of everyone who continues to support our charity enabling us to continue to support Blind and Partially Sighted residents living in our town.
March 15th 2009
25th Hastings Half Marathon
On a typically sun drenched Sunday Morning in March Stan(#525) completed his 25th Hastings Half Marathon (and some say his last). Although his time was his slowest ever it was, undoubtedly, his most enjoyable. At that pace he was able to enjoy some of the delightful scenes Hastings has to offer!! The effort has, so far, raised just under £500 and with a few more pounds to come and with Gift Aid should provide about £600 for Homecall in total.
Thanks to all who sponsored him and thank you Stan for raising this superb sum for Homecall. We hope your medal was a silver one!
January 30th 2009
Quiz Evening
Homecall held a fundraising Quiz Evening at Christchurch Methodist Church Hall, Bexhill. Organised in the main by two Trustees, Jan Corke and Jill Dyer. The excellent support from Homecall volunteers and clients along with their family and/or friends and other supporters of Homecall ensured the event was a sell out for the 2nd year.
At £8 a head everyone enjoyed a ploughman’s supper with plenty to quench the thirst followed by biscuits to eat during the quiz. We were very grateful to our musical group ‘SMOOTH’ who played easy listening jazz during supper and provided one round of the quiz questions. Their performance certainly received hearty applause. Following supper volunteer Bernice Harvey expertly ran the quiz, obviously a well practiced routine!
Supporters were invited to bring ‘unwanted Christmas presents’ for our raffle. What a brilliant idea! The prizes were plentiful and we thank Roger and Geof for selling tickets raising a magnificent £173. Congratulations to the winning team ‘The Oddments’. A £5 gift voucher was presented to each of the 4 team members.
Very grateful thanks go to the aforementioned and to volunteers Sylvia Emery and Viv Reddick and supporter Kate Dyer for helping with supper on the night. Also thanks to Barry Turnwell of Christchurch Methodist Church for allowing us to hold our quiz at the church hall. And last, but by no means least, thanks to Little Common Cheese and Delicatessen and Betts and Loyd who generously gave us discount on the supper food they provided, and to Lidl who generously donated other provisions.
Thanks to the generosity of all who attended the evening raised the magnificent sum of £560 for Homecall funds.
— Jenny Private