Yesterday, the Herefordshire arm of the family held a coffee morning, cake sale and raffle to raise funds for our campaign.
Jimmy and Gill have a brewery business and have been selling raffle tickets to brewery visitors for a few weeks now. They managed to gather some super prizes from the local community, as well as donating some of their own produce.
Gill is renowned in our family, for her amazing culinary skills, which she seems to have passed on to Anna and Zeb!
The event took place in their lovely home and it looks as if it was lots of fun. Anyone who follows Swan Brewery on Facebook will know that Gill never misses an opportunity to dress up and this was no exception.
And just look at those amazing cakes!
There were a few cakes left at the end of the morning so Anna and Zeb packed them up and sold them to some of the spectators at the village football game in the afternoon.
Today, they have managed to count all their takings (including a jar of pennies donated by their neighbour!)
The grand total of all their hard work is …
This brings our grand total past the £6,000 mark ..I am so grateful to everyone who has helped us to get this far ?
Thank you for all your efforts Anna, Zeb, Gill and Jimmy and also the people of Wellington and customers of Swan Brewery ?
You can find out more about how Swan Brewery was born, their environmentally friendly ethos and their amazing selection of beers here …
They are also on Facebook and Twitter.
In other news…
The cycling lads are out in the freezing Peak District as I am writing this …I’m just hoping they manage to avoid the snow that has fallen there over the last 48 hours!
We now have so many local musicians volunteering for our evening event in the new year, that we may need to have two events!
We are planning to contact local media at some point but things are already starting to happen without us doing anything! I have been contacted by a company who are making a documentary for Channel 4 about people funding their own medical treatment and Niamh has established a contact at Smooth Radio.
In the meantime, please follow us on Instagram and Twitter and share with your contacts. Thanks again for your continuing support ?