Event Reports

DUNHOLME GARDEN FETE
I would like to thank everyone who contributed to making this day a huge success.
St Chad's received £1200 towards the renovation work. So far, we have received information from the following charities: Christmas Child Shoe Box appeal £900; Cardiomyopathy (heart charity) £200; ROAD (charity working in Romania) £110; Women's Institute £85; Lincoln and Lindsey Blind Society £170; Local British Legion £63.46; Dunholme Toddlers £75; Dunholme Pre-School £180; Welton PTA £283; St Barnabas £100; World Challenge Charity £50; Girls R Aloud (Womens social group) £90; Scouts £253; Project Cornerstone (charity working in Ghana) £135; MASH (supplying disadvantaged children with meals) £85; Different Strokes (stroke charity) £21.
The following charities were also represented at the Fete: Dunholme PTA, Cancer Research, Sure Start, Hearing Dogs for the Deaf, Witham St Hughes Gymnastics Club, Hatti Trading (fair trade products from Nepal), and Flights for Life.
The under 10 boat race was won by Jack Green, 10-18 class won by Henry's ballistic boat, and Charlie Hackney for the adults.
The Duck race was won by Oliver Pate and the Fancy Hat competition by Heather Burton. Sure Start gained 17 new members.
Thank you to Threshold Church for their continued support throughout the event and to Grace Church for working so hard on the barbeque and contributing to the music programme, also to Saxilby Youth Band.
A very BIG thank you to Karoline and Andy Ottewell for the use of their garden.
Thank you once again to everyone who helped to make this event a very special day.

Marie Curie Cancer Care Table Top Sale
Saturday 5^th. June 2010 Welton Village Hall
The Table Top Sale held on 5^th. June was another success story. We were able to bank £379 and offer thanks to the generous customers who supported the event.
Regretfully, this will be the last event that we will be running due to personal circumstances.
There is a possibility that further Table Top Sales may be organised by another group; if this materialises I am sure it will be well publicised.

Dear Editor,

Hugh and I would like to thank everyone who helped or supported the Open Gardens this year. We have had such a tremendous team of people helping. The end result is that we have been able to donate £1200 to Flights for Life (April Open Garden), £1000 to St Chads Church and £500 to Lincs Churches Trust at the May Open Garden. This could not have happened without the support and teamwork involved!

The picture is of Hugh presenting the cheque to Jenny -our new Priest in charge- for St Chad's Church.

Hugh and Lesley Wykes

Thank you to Sue Rawson and friends for holding a Jumble sale in January to raise funds for the teenage trekkers it was a tremendous success and greatly appreciated (Tash, Mary, Lee & Cassie)
Also Many thanks to all who came to the race night in April to support the teenage trekkers to raise funds for their expedition to Morocco, and an even bigger thank you to all the local businesses who supported the night by sponsoring races and supplying raffle prizes.
A great time was had by all with many enquiries as to the next race night. We are looking forward to the next race night on 3 July. (Lee, Cassie, Tash & Mary)
Annette Percival
01673 861417

Dear Editor,
I would like to thank all those kind people who sponsored me in the Lincoln 10k, A total of £601-00 was raised for the Welton & Dunholme L.I.V.E.S First responders. Once again thank you very much.
Keith Johnson

The family of the late Margaret Bembridge.
Lindsay, Helen and families wish to say a big thank you to family and friends for the large number of cards, sincere letters and beautiful flowers we received following the sudden death of our beloved mum, they were very much appreciated. Thank you to the Rev. Saunders for a very heartfelt service with so many of mums family and friends. Thank you to those whom donated generously to the Alzheimer’s Research Trust.
David Nicholls

Peter Hammerton who died on 11th April 2010 after a short illness from Honeyholes Lane, Dunholme.
Thanks from the family go to Dunholme Friendship Club, Luncheon Club, Church Coffee Stop and the friends and neighbours who helped Peter through the loss of his wife and through his illness. Your love and kindness was overwhelming for Peter and he was always so grateful to each and every one of you.
Thank you to all those who attended Peter's funeral which was a thanksgiving for his life. Kind donations from the funeral went to St Barnabas Hospice, Sue Ryder Care and to Dunholme Church Funds. Peter will be very sadly missed by all.
Thank you Kerry Tubb 4 Honeyholes Lane, Dunholme

We would like to thank you all for helping with and supporting our recent Open Garden at Dunholme Lodge on 11th April. Helped by the fine weather, we managed to raise £1200 for Flights for Life---who are, naturally, very pleased with the results! It could not have happened without the help of a lot of people --and indeed a lot of effort goes into making the day as successful as possible and we are indebted to you all. Flights for Life would like to convey their grateful thanks --the money going towards their charity and no doubt you will be hearing about their activities at Wickenby throughout the year.
Thanks once more. Please forgive us if we fail to thank everyone individually--there are so many helpful -lovely people amongst us--it is an almost impossible task.
Here's to a successful May16th Charity Open Garden and Craft Fair--again at Dunholme Lodge
Lesley and Hugh

BRITISH LEGION POPPY APPEAL:
We are most grateful to everyone who gave so generously to the Appeal. A very big thank you to all the volunteer collectors and to the businesses who allowed boxes to be left on their premises. £987.06 was raised in Dunholme.

Thanks
HALFWAY HOME DOG RESCUE
I would just like to say a big thank you for mentioning Halfway Home Dog Rescue Open Day in your magazine. We had a brilliant day last Sunday. We had lots of people and lots of dogs. It was especially great to see some of our re-homed dogs come back to visit us. It makes all the hard work so worthwhile.
We raised the magnificent sum of £2,430 which will really help us to carry on our work.
THANK YOU once again.

THANK YOU * THANK YOU * THANK YOU * THANK YOU
THANK YOU FOR COMING TO WATT’S WOOD
On Saturday 5th September around 60 people walked and drove down to Watt’s Wood for a teddy bears’ barbeque organised by St Chad’s Church. The weather was kind to us and we were serenaded by Cliff on the guitar and the children were given the opportunity to do some art. The majority of people who came hadn’t seen Watt’s Wood and really appreciated its beauty. We would like to say a big thank you to Chris who did the barbecue.
We are having a service on Sunday 11th October at 6.30pm in St Chad’s Church if anyone would like to find out about Watts Wood in Dunholme.
Heather

SCHOOL CROSSING PATROL
I would like to say thank you to everyone who has given me gifts over the eight years I’ve been doing the school crossing patrol. They were very much appreciated. I will miss meeting all the people I’ve enjoyed talking to. I will still see the children in school at lunchtime since I’m not retiring from that job just yet.
Very best wished to you all
Maureen Rodgers (Mrs R) 01673 861492

FRUIT AT THE GATE
Many thanks to all the people who gave donations for the fruit at our gate. I am sure that you will be happy to know that St Barnabas's Hospice has benefited by £38.29. I hope that 2010 will bring an equally good harvest for us all.
Dorothy Pymer, Twells Cottage.

DUNHOLME LODGE OPEN GARDEN

I would like thank you all for a magnificent achievement at the Open Gardens on April 5th.

We raised £1200 for Flights for Life. Every person was appreciated —visitors and helpers, cake-makers –fantastic cakes! Thank you.

The next Open Gardens is May 17th and we are raising money for the Lincolnshire Churches Trust. We need helpers for one to two hours, cake-makers, plants -from bedding to shrubs. If you can help please phone 01673860356 Lesley and Hugh. By the way, all the monies except gate money will go to our local St Chad’s Church, while the gate money is going to the Lincolnshire

Churches Trust.

Hugh and Lesley Wykes

PROJECT CORNERSTONE – JIVEFUSION EVENING

A BIG thank you to all who came along to the Jivefusion evening at Wm Farr School to learn some modern jive dance moves. Over a hundred people graced the dance floor and enjoyed a fun evening of great music, good company and made new friends along the way! We hope everyone enjoyed themselves as much as we did. The feedback has certainly encouraged us.

The evening raised £600 for Project Cornerstone and 100% of this goes directly to the projects we support in Ghana, so thank you again to all those who contributed.

During the evening we briefly shared the stories of three people who have been helped by the work done in Ghana – a toddler, a young woman, and a woman who received a small business loan. If you would like a representative from Project Cornerstone to share more stories from

Ghana with you or a local group you are part of please contact us. We would be more than happy to come along with photos, stories and crafts.

Thanks again.

Alan and Ann Evans Tel 01673860248

THANK YOU

I would like to thank all those who sponsored me in the Lincoln 10K (did not win 57.37), especially Dunholme Ladies Club and Carol Ealam. When all monies are in a total of £580 was raised for the Welton & Dunholme First Responders. This money will help purchase a Laptop to download the defibrillator when it has been used and for administration purposes.

Once again a big thank you.

Keith Johnson, 47 Honeyholes Lane

2008 SHOE BOX APPEAL

Well what a year, it was the first year we have ever set a target which was 2008 for 2008, in the end with all your help we managed to smash our target and send a fantastic total of 2273 gift filled boxes. A BIG THANK YOU goes out to everyone who has contributed in any way to making 2008 the most successful year we have ever had. At the time of writing this article l am unable to say exactly where all the boxes have gone to but l am sure that on Christmas day you all gave 2273 needy children a Christmas to remember and bring a lot of joy to their lives. So from all the 2,273 children thank you very much for all your help. Remember though we do not stop we are already looking forward to 2009.

Sue Rawson 862552

RECYCLE WITH A DIFFERENCE

All your old Christmas cards, gift bags and wrapping paper. We are recycling them in a different way for the Shoebox appeal. So if you have any unwanted cards, bags or paper and would like to help some child, then why not recycle them with us this year. Also we need the nets from washing powder if you have any spare.

Please contact Sue 862552 or Sandra 861956

Sue Rawson 862552

GARDEN PARTY

Many thanks to all those who came along and supported us on the occasion of our annual Garden Party in aid of the Shoe Box Appeal. The weather was extremely kind to us yet again and with the sun shining it was so nice to see everybody sitting around enjoying a drink, something to eat and having a chat while helping a worthy cause. I am pleased to say that thanks to you all including all the willing helpers, who worked so hard on the day, we managed to raise a fantastic total of £1,196 which is a wonderful amount and will go a long way to helping us reach our goal for this year. So once again may l say a big thank you on behalf of all the underprivileged children you will be helping at Christmas time?

Sue Rawson

THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION - POPPY APPEAL

£810.33 was raised in the village this year. Many thanks to the collectors and the business establishments for allowing boxes to be left on their premises. Thanks also to everyone who gave so generously to this worthy cause

Roy Dimbleby

SUE RAWSON & SANDRA FORMAN

Their involvement with fund raising for local organisations and charities probably started in 1986. In taking over as chairlady of Dunholme Ladies Club Sue Rawson along with committee member Sandra Forman held their first jumble sale in aid of club funds and raised a handsome total of £36.33. The “bug” of fund raising then caught hold and in the following years they organised other events such as fashion shows, coffee mornings, clothes sales, white elephant stalls and helped out at many other local events to help raise money for charities. One of the main charities to benefit was Marie Curie Cancer Care and now the girls started in earnest to organise more jumble sales for deserving causes. Since keeping records of jumble sales since 1996 they have to date raise a total of nearly £40,000 for local organisations such as Play group (or pre school as it is now called), PTA, Brownies, Football clubs, St Barnabas, First Responders etc. Sue has always worked with children all her life and they have played a big part in it. Sandra also worked with Playgroup and has also been involved with children’s groups. In 2002 the opportunity arose to become involved in sending gift-filled shoe boxes to underprivileged children throughout Eastern Europe and as such other forms of fund raising has evolved such as Garden parties at Sue’s house, Village fetes, car boots, dances and even a performance of Joseph by puppets. All this has contributed to being able to send out in the last five years a total of 6,236 boxesplus giving donations of approximately £4,000 to help the charity.

This year the girls have decided for the first time to have a goal which is to send 2008 boxes for 2008, plus a £1,000 donation. However all this would not be possible without having the benefit of a good team of willing volunteers to help and without them Sue & Sandra could not give so much to others.

This bench was dedicated to Sue and all her team for all the fund raising work they have done. Sue is not expected to get much time yet to use it but hopefully when she retires (ha ha) she may get chance. For now the bench is going to stay in Playgroup area for use by mums and toddlers.

Top row: Anne Duke, Angela Tuplin, Tracy Lowne and Maxine Hartley.

Seated: Sandra Forman, Eleanor Allibone, Sue Rawson and Alex Hewitt.

DUNHOLME GARDEN FETE

We hope that everyone who came along to this year’s Garden Fete enjoyed themselves, despite an early shower and a downpour later on. We are very grateful to everyone who played their part in making the afternoon such a successful one. Just over £1,300 was raised centrally from the refreshments, barbeque and boat race, and we shall let you know in due course which charities and organisations the money will be donated to. As far as we can ascertain approximately another £2,200 was raised by the various stallholders so we are delighted that other local organisations, charities and businesses benefited from the day.

We would particularly like to thank the St John’s Ambulance crew, Market Rasen Brass Band (particularly for their stoic performance of “I’m singing in the rain”) and Peachy Productions for their hard work on the day. It is always difficult to thank everyone after an event like this for fear of missing someone out but if you helped in any shape or form whether baking cakes, setting up gazebos, loaning your memorabilia of Dunholme for the exhibition, demonstrating your skills, giving and hour of your time to serve in any way, we are very grateful.

If you are a local organisation or business who would like to get involved next year just let us know (even now).

So from all those involved in the organisation of the event – THANK YOU. We hope to see you next year.

Heather, Caroline, Lesley, Teresa, and Ann  862228

Dunholme Lodge Open Garden

Thank you to all helpers and those giving their time and expertise towards the open garden on May 18th. This tremendous effort in teamwork has resulted in us being able to donate £900 to St Chad’s Church and £860 to Lincolnshire Old Churches Trust—a fantastic achievement!

Hugh and Lesley Wykes

SUE RAWSON’S GARDEN PARTY WAS A GREAT SUCCESS...

Sue would like to thank everyone who came along on Saturday 15th September and helped raise money in aid of Operation Christmas Child and the 2007 Shoebox Appeal. Last year the garden party made £547 but this time a massive £905 was raised. Sue would also like to thank those who helped make the event a success by helping with the organisation of the event and the running of the stalls on the day. The weather was excellent and everyone had a great time.

SHOEBOX SATURDAY - 22nd SEPTEMBER 2007

The Shoebox Saturday was extremely well supported and with the help of staff and pupils from St Chad’s Primary School and other willing volunteers we managed to fill and despatch our first batch of 683 boxes towards this year’s appeal. The next ‘Shoebox Saturday’ will be held on 3rd November. More details to follow.

2007 SHOEBOX APPEAL UPDATE

All the gift filled shoeboxes we sent out fast year were distributed mainly to orphanages in Romania, Serbia and Kurdistan. The overall total from our local area was over 27,000 which is a fantastic effort by all involved, many thanks.

THANKS

I would like to thank all those who supported us and came along to our presentation of Joseph as performed by Puppetpower, and hopefully we entertained everybody who came. Watch this space as our friendly puppets will be coming along to entertain us again later in the year.

On a personal note l would like to thank Sandra, Betty and Grace for all their continuing support that they give as without them I could not achieve so much, thanks girls.

Sue Rawson 862552

The St Chad's Flower Festival Committee would like to express its appreciation for the help, sponsorship and publicity so willingly given over the Flower Festival week-end of 29th June to 1st July 2007. Church funds benefited by about £900 as a result of all the hard work. These two quotes from the visitors' book sum it all up.

"A lovely display of flowers, everything looks beautiful and a great cup of tea and cake"

"Beautiful flowers, creatively and movingly displayed"

Rather fitting considering the theme was 'Aspects of Love'. A very big thank you to everyone.

K J Saunders

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Rob & Heather Hunter and Andy & Karoline Otterwell for organising this years Garden Fete. Even though the weather was a little trying it still turned out to be a wonderful afternoon. Well done also to all the villagers that came along and supported all the different organisations. The atmosphere between the two gardens was one of bring the whole community together and the jewel in the crown was the church which had been decorated so wonderfully by a dedicated band of workers. Well done everybody.

Sue & Graham Rawson 892552

SHOEBOX APPEAL

Thanks to everyone who came along and supported our stalls at the garden fete. A grand total of £623 was raised. The winning board number was 73 won by Heather Burton who collected the £50. Also a big thank you to Jill Pearce who did a wonderful job of producing a fabulous flower arrangement based on the shoebox theme on behalf of Ladies Club.

A spectacular performance of 'Olde Tyme Musical Hall' by Hagons happening was held at the Dunholme Old School on Saturday 26th May. Both performances, an afternoon matinee and the evening were sell outs.
A highly entertaining show featuring the good old days songs, ditties, monologues and sketches by this amature group peformed in a highly professional way. Most of the cast were local but quite a number had travelled from Surrey at there own expense to perform.

Young ladies of the cast selling programmes and raffle tickets

The show opened with a good old singsong of seaside Melodies.This included 'Hello, Hello, who's your lady friend?' 'The Galloping Major' and 'Daisy, Daisy'

There was then five individual items by Gwyneth Kimble -'I wish I'd look after my teeth', Theresa Inman - ' The boy I love is up in the gallery'. Bill Leaper --'A slice of comedy (!*!*!*?)' Jenny Edmuonson - 'Little Teddy Bear' and a delightful harmony group called Fusion harmony singing 'Music of the Future.

Some of the audience

Then it was the turn of the younger members of the class with Elizabeth Hagon, Lizzie Dyer and Rebecca Dyer all giving little monologues and poems. This was followed by a powerful rendition by Tony Smith of 'The Lincolnshire Poacher' followed by Sarah Rollitt singing 'The Second Minuet'
To close the first half there was a Scottish medley with individual song by Rebecca Dyer and Helen Philips.

The second half opened with a Romance medly followed by a Melodrama called 'The Witch's Curse' by the Poulter Family and friends who some of those who had travelled from Surrey to perform.

The cast singing a Circle Waltz Medley

A good old Cocknet Medley

Further individual items followed with a hilarious recitation by Rita Dobbs of 'A Tight Spot', a beautifully sung 'Daddy wouldn't buy me a bow-wow' from Elizabeth Hagon, who must be all of four years old and another powerful monologue from Tony Smith of 'Albert and the Lion'.

Next came Circle Waltz Medley of 'Cruising down the River', ' Let me call you "sweetheart"' and Joshuah, Joshuah'. This was followed by individual item by Steve Marshall and Ian Smith. The closing numbers included a a Cockney medley with songs from Tony Graves who sang 'I'm Henery the Eighth I am' , a selection form the stage show and film of 'Oliver by Kate Wilson' with the audience enthusiastically joining in the chorus of Ooom-pay-pah! Oom-pah-pah! That's how it goes'

The Finalè

'Waiting at the church' was sung by Roslyn Roe and 'Flash! Bang! Wallop! from 'Half a Sixpence' by Richard and the whole Company.

The Finale included 'Lets go down the Strand', 'Don't Dilly Dally' - Sally Leaper, Any Old Iron - Ian Smith and the kids, with a solo verse from Chris Edmonson. To wrap a most enjoyable afternoon up the cast and the audience enjoyed a good old rendition of 'Knees up Mother Brown'

Richard Hagon on the electronic keyboard

The music for the show was provided by Richard Hagon who not only was the Musical Dirctor but Master of Ceremonies, continuity link man, commentator, and, at one point, promt.
The cast was made up of a wide age range from young children to many who must have been collecting their pensions for some years.
The only down side was that the Old School was unable to hold an audience of more that about fifty. Hopefully with lottery funding applied for this type of show could be performed in a setting that they deserve.