"One of the best quiz nights we have been to"

By popular demand, we held another summer quiz last week, which dare we say it was even better than last year's! 

Around 84 people joined in and it was lovely to see people who had come on their own being welcomed so warmly into teams. Sean Carey, a writer for The Chase, was again an excellent Quiz Master, setting the balance perfectly between questions that were hard enough to be interesting but not impossible. Huge thanks to Sean for agreeing to come back and deliver such an enjoyable quiz.

We are so grateful to our volunteer fundraiser, Sarah Ricketts, for organising this fundraising social for the second year running and making it a truly fun evening. One guest sent this fantastic feedback: "I just wanted to personally thank you and your colleagues for what was a great Quiz night on Friday. I am a member of a Quiz team and we try to go to all of the local charity Quiz nights. We all said that this was one of the best we have been to."

Special thanks also goes to: 

• everyone who volunteered to help Sarah - from managing the AV equipment, running the bar, front of house and selling raffle tickets, setting up and clearing away, and everything in between. We are so grateful to you all for your time and energy.
• St Stephen's Church, Twickenham for providing their great venue.
• the businesses who so generously donated items and prizes:  Your Bakery, Whitton; Rosie Chai; Frames of Twickenham; Kew Gardens; Squires Garden Centre; Osteria Pulcinella; Blush Beauty; Volta's Spa and Beauty; The Angel and Crown Richmond; St Margaret's Fish Bar; Gail's Twickenham; Saffron Persian Grill; Next; St Margaret's Wines; Oree Richmond; Rose Theatre; Hilton Syon Park; Eel Pie Pub; Portofino Pizzeria, Richmond; Harris and Toole, Twickenham; and Venchi Richmond.

And of course huge thanks to everyone that came along and made it such a fun evening, and supported us so generously! 

​Overall the evening raised a fantastic £1,115 - which will make a huge difference to our projects befriending care home residents and supporting informal carers. 

A huge success, a highly enjoyable evening and one we are keen to repeat! If you'd like to hear about upcoming events, you can sign up for our quarterly newsletter here.