The fifth Fun Day on Barnards Park, Crow Lane was a triumph of hope over pessimism. Breakfast time brought significant rain but the organising team headed by Chris Pratt pressed boldly on. Their optimism was justified and the afternoon was dry and even sunny for a short time although there were a few raindrops for 5 mins.

Probably deterred by the earlier rain and a gloomy forecast overall attendance at the event was slightly lower than last year but even so a fine total of £903.29 was raised for the benefit of the older residents of  Brentry and Henbury. This represents a great effort by all those involved and a breakdown is: -

Collecting buckets – £191 : Raffle – £179 : Tombola – £134 : Bric a brac – £114 : Duck game – £76 : Books – £66.67 : Face painting – £56 : Clothes – £27 : Hair spraying – 23 : Toys – £19 : Lolly game – £14

Thank you to Chris and the whole of her team for organising another very successful and enjoyable event.

Finally to record the magnificent contribution made by Cheryl Coles of Safer Bristol. She initiated the whole event in 2006 and organised subsequent years until Chris Pratt took over and has continued to support the event wholeheartedly over the five years

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The third Christmas Crackers was well supported by choirs from three local schools including an instrumental consort from Henbury School who played nobly in light rain and, until it was turned off, wet snow from the snow machine. Despite the rain which ceased after a time and the low temperature the number of children and adults supporting the event was the highest yet and Father Christmas and his helpers coped magnificently with the number of eager children. Hot non-alcoholic punch and mince pies were exceedingly welcome to one and all.

As the Evening Post article here: click says the event shows that Henbury has many good things to offer.

A collection was made and a total of £56.40 was raised which will be added to the Fun Day total of £1078.27 giving a grand total of £1134.67 which will be directed towards the Elderly of Henbury and Brentry.

Particular commendation and thanks on behalf of the Community should go to Cheryl Coles of Safer Bristol and the Pratt family of whom Chris led the community team, Graham played the key Christmas role and Martyn  provided music and amplification without which the event would not really have been possible.

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Not only was the day fine and dry (despite a few drops of ‘liquid sunshine’ – thanks Martin!) and gave so many people of all ages much pleasure but it produced some very impressive donation totals thanks to the organising genius of Chris Pratt and her team.

The first sub total I can publish here is that collected in the buckets and totted up by Ted Marshall and myself was £216-20

And now I can detail the other income / profits for the day excluding stall / ground rent : -

Raffle – £211.00, Tombola – £148.80, Bric a Brac -£108.97, Toys – £59.14, Books & Puzzles – £70.30, Clothes – £38.92, Produce – £18.35, Duck Game – £96, Marrow competition – £2.40, Hair Spraying – £49, Nail Art – £11, Face Painting / Tattoos – £27, Donation from Willow Tree – £18, Donation from Betting Shop – £3.19

All these efforts total: -

£862.07

And this gives a grand total of £1078.27

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