This years Cricket Week raised the staggering amount of £3810.82 which was beyond all expectations and beat last years total of £3054.39. Also thrown into the hat is the fact that we are on board with Barclays who are going to match our total, which means the total raised from Don Macaulay's Cricket Week is going to be £7621.64 for the Macmillan Nurses. We are gob smacked to say the least!
The generosity shown by everyone who took part during the week was fantastic. Everyone got into the spirit of things with teas for the cricketers donated so their tea money went straight into the pot, the food from Tuesdays quiz night was donated too so the table money went straight into the pot as well. The cricketers were fining themselves for mistakes and generally Mickey taking throughout their matches. On Wednesday evening we had a karaoke where the buckets were filling up through people singing. Stand out performance had to go to Dave Dorsett!
We sold 260 tickets for the Friday evening where we had a raffle and auction, along with a hog roast and BBQ. All the ticket, food, raffle and auction monies were given directly to the charity. We even had cash donations from club members who couldn't get there.
A big thanks to Marylebone Jelly who were our fantastic live entertainment on the Friday evening. If you haven't seen them before I'd highly recommend them. Big thanks also to Beeline in Rainham who kindly donated a curtain sided trailer for the band to play in free of charge. A massive thank you to Annmarie from the Crown who not only donated prizes for the evening, she also sold raffle tickets on our behalf and bought 35 of her Friday night regular customers down to support the event. She helped me with the raffle & auction too, so thanks Annie. Also a thank you to TKW Electrical for very kindly running power and lighting to the stage and marquees, free of charge.
The cricket went very well and everyday we were very lucky with the weather. Monday we beat Chatham Nomads XI by 40 odd runs, Tuesday we chased down a 200 plus total against TKW Electrical XI, Wednesday we overcame KD Masters XI which included Amjad Khan & Co and chased down their total of again 200 plus, Thursday our Colts narrowly lost a great game against Old Wilsonians Colts team from Bromley, and Friday we ended with a 20/20 game against an Upchurch FC XI which was won by the cricket team.
A massive thank you to everyone who took part and supported the week from myself Lee Stepney and Dave Lloyd. We are blown away by the figure raised and it makes all the time we invested well worth it and I hope we did Don proud.
A big thank you to the sponsors for the week who were:
