Vicki and I have been preparing for the EverGlow Charity Music Festival for nearly twelve months and over this time, a lot of people have helped us.
So to everyone who supported us – THANK YOU xxxx
- Providing raffle prizes
- Nobby and Henry Steane, who supplied us with the marquees;
- Joe Bradshaw who collected and dropped off marquees, stage steps, and van fulls of other stuff;
- Charlie Gowling, Sam Steane, Bhim Lal, Ginny Newsome, Di, Des and Dale Fraser who helped erect the marquees and set everything up;
- Tom Sullivan, Cade, Dan and Liezl Lee-Louw, Val, Wendy and Dominic Corrigan for helping with the preparation Saturday morning
- Heather ‘keeper of the keys’ Koumi and Jack ‘provider of the table tennis’ Koumi;
- Chris Sanderson and Steve Vaun – steps for the stage,
- Chris Bignell, community first responders,
- The scouts – to Reg who kept me replenished with cups of tea!,
- Hazel Faulkner for selling plants to raise funds and for providing car loads of items to sell,
- Claire Shiner, our festival glitter artist
- Our food vendors (The Spice Truck and The Shack) and stalls,
- Our sponsors and other donors who helped us immensely with covering the costs,
- Our fabulous musicians, some of which, stepped up at the last hour, and our entertainers, Vanessa and Rita,
- Steph Bird of the Brain Tumour Charity for coming along to support us
- Con from Naseby Village Hall,
- Henry Steane for supplying the bar – the real ale went down (literally) really well;
- Sally Gowling and Kira Fraser for doing a great job with the activities and games cage;
- Becci Fell (RLF Designs) for her artistry with the village hall banner;
- Liezl Lee-Louw, who stayed up Friday night until after midnight, sewing sheets together for the acoustic chill-out tent banner, and to Dale Fraser and Lucas Marlow who created and painted on the image for it at the 11th hour (literally!!!);
- Nikki and Tim for keeping everyone refreshed and sustained;
- Sally Gowling for supplying impromptu bacon and egg butties for the Saturday morning helpers;
- To everyone who helped take everything down on Sunday morning, Cade Fox, Anthony Partridge, Ben Street, Bhim, Des;
- To everyone who helped clean and clear Sunday morning and Ange for ensuring the village hall was spick and span on vacating.
- To our great raffle ticket sellers – Kira, Dale, Cade and Ange
And, last but most definitely not least, to everyone who made the effort to come along on the day and support us.
Apologies if I have missed you out xxx Lots of love xxx
Chris x