Tina D
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13 June 2009 - Village Midsummer Fair, HackneyWe will be having a stall at the Victoria Park Midsummer Village Fair, Lauriston road, Hackney E9.
It is a local village fair that usually has all types of stalls and generally at least one of the shops has a barbeque and there is sometimes a live band. If the weather is nice, it can get quite busy (which would be good for us!!!)
It is literally round the corner from my house so i will be going  and SharonR has said that she will come along too-any other takers????
It all starts at midday!!
xx
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karen
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 Sorry no can do but hope you have fun 
I was going to recommend a sweetie tombola for any events like this. A lady did it at BOSC and sold aout very early on  Basically she had filled recycled jars with sweeties and had a tombola - with 2 kids there, it cost me a small fortune 
Just a thought for you - it did look very attractive too, just ask Sebastian and Rhianna.
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Tina D
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I did see Sebastian and Rhianna's prizes and thought that it was a fab idea, just using old jars!!
I am trying desparately to get to Costco before this (using my cousin's membership card) so that i can buy some boxes of sweets to either go in jars or in the same bags as the dog biscuits
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Tina D
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I have bought some sweets and party pack toys, so will be making up some bags for the children's tombola for this one.
It is running from 12-6pm, so if you are in the area please stop by
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Sharonr - Admin
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Anyone interested in helping or attending, the timing is:
Open 12-6pm (we can set up from 10:30) .
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Sharonr - Admin
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All packed and ready to go, go, go! Anyone who is on our side of town please stop by and say 'hello'!
Send good vibes that the weather stays fine
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Tina D
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The weather was indeed fine (i have the slight sunburn to prove it!!) We had a really good day!! The dog biscuits proved to be very popular and we even had to restock with frozen liver cake!! We also had a tombola (which we also had to restock!) and a children's tombola. We also gave out quite a few poster to interested parties and have some local shops pledging support (putting up posters etc).
We met some very lovely people and one lady even went home to bring us her spare change collection!!!!! The lovely man with her also gave us a tenner!!!
Miss Sharon will be on in bit with the vital numbers but, at the very least, there are a few more people in the world who know about RR and the fabulous work we all do!!!!!
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Sharonr - Admin
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Wow, we had a lovely day today and the sun shone! The villagers of Hackney gave us a very warm welcome and we ended up with two tables (one free) instead of one for which we were very grateful!
As usual, Tina D's Liver Cake & Home Made Dog Biscuit kept selling out and mum had to bring more in from home to replenish supplies, 'thanks' mum - plus the cream cheese/smoked salmon bagel was also gratefully received ! Tina D even gave out her e-mail address to locals to supply them further when their stock runs out! Lets hope she get some orders for RR.
Our neighbouring stall, the residents association, had a good day and packed up early. They gave us first refusal on anything they had left and we cherry picked for free picking up some more stuff for our next sale!
Several local shops (book shop, hairdressers) have offered to display our posters/business cards and are very supportive - Tina is going to give me their e-mail addresses so that we can send the RR poster on a monthly basis. The lady that runs the local book shop and arranges the fair and has put us on her mailing list for a stall at the December fair.
Several people made enquiries about rehoming and now have our posters.
The total raised for the day was ... drum roll ... £186.00.
Our next fundraising event is: Battersea Dog Show, Battersea Park - 28th June, 2009
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karen
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Well done, Tina D and Sharon. What a fab result Sounds like you two worked like little Trojans
Just brill 
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Dee
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Wow you guys did so well.
All that networking, finding more places for posters and making money too!!
Well done both of you.
Bless Tina for all her bakig and sharon for all the chatting!! LOL
Excellent result after a lot of very hard work xxx
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Tina D
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My neighbour actually gave me an extra tenner yesterday as she couldn't make it to the fair, so the actual total raised was £196!!!!!!
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karen
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Even better
There are so many little local events like this happening over the summer. If anybody has a little time to run a stall at an event local to them, it could make a big difference to our coffers. I am sure Tina D and Sharon would back me up when I say it is also good fun. If anybody can do one, Sharon, Tina and I would be very happy to help with suggestions of what to do, which posters to take along etc.
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Sharonr - Admin
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Now don't we both look like we were having fun ... ?!!!
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xxlynne
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I did check if that wine bottle had been tampered with before it was put in the raffle! THANK YOU BOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sharonr - Admin
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NO! But funny that, the first thing I did when I got home was open a nice bottle of red!
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Tina D
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Sharon was eyeing up that bottle for most of the day-i think she was even tempted to buy some raffle tickets herself!!!
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