Bingo Night Fundraiser

Last night I held a Charity Bingo Fundraising Night at Carlin How Working Men's Club, in the North East of England. I am aware that I need to start working hard now on getting the money rolling in. So I really needed this to give me a boost!  

I first held my Bingo Night in The Avenue Bar, in Glasgow in October last year.  I took it there first to see if it would work.  People seemed to enjoy it.  It gave me the confidence to want to do more.  It is not just your standard number bingo night!  I have put my own twist on it. There's five rounds, each with a different theme. 

1. Movie Bingo

2. Famous People Bingo

3. TV Theme Intro Bingo

4. Standard Number Bingo

5. Music Intro Bingo

Each winning prize is related to each round. So for example, Movie Bingo prize was a £20 Cineworld Voucher.  With the TV Theme Intro round, I played 20 seconds of a well known popular TV tune, so the players needed to identify the tune so that they would mark if off their bingo cards, if it was on there! Tricky, but a lot of fun.

I was taking a HUGE risk doing this bingo night.  People in this village take bingo very seriously! I admit that I was shitting myself on how they'd react.  I wasn't even sure if anyone would turn up. I had been harping on about it on Facebook for weeks, and getting very little response back.

I'm very pleased to say that was such a huge success. I raised a fantastic £500.75!! I was so scared it was going to flop, as so many were pulling out of coming. Though, new I could rely on my army of a family to come up trumps. Soon as I arrived at 6.30pm to set up, there were people already sat waiting to play. Then people just kept arriving. I really cant keep saying thank you enough to the people of Carlin How, and the Club, especially my Uncle Steve. What was also fantastic, was I had from 2 dear friends of mine that turned up to support me. 

So the verdict? THEY LOVED IT. It worked. They have even requested I go back and put another bingo night on. Gotta give the people what they want. 

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Got a lot of fundraising ahead of me over the next few weeks. A bake sale at my school, and another bingo night in London. The money is coming in now. Which is what it's all about.  I can look towards bringing my bingo night to London.  A soon as I have confirmed a venue, it's on!! Will keep you posted. 

I would just like to thank everyone that donated prizes towards the raffle we put on. There was so much of it. I have to personally mention Sound it Out Record Shop, in Stockton-On-Tees, who very kindly donated a £15 voucher!  I can't forget me Mam' too. She organised the raffle and a 'Name the Teddy' game which raised a lot of money too. 

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