Last night was brilliant. Over 50 people showed up for the Jazz Evening. It was great to see some old friends - Clare/Lee/ Rumen and make new ones - Hillary/Steve.
Steve Yimga and his band - yes I know I have had three different versions of his name , but I finally got that cleared up in person, with the main man!! - were amazing. The sax player.. well what can I say, he just mesmerised everyone... and the drummer developed some stalkers and would be groupies .. I won't say who the women were - you know who you are... ( they were also lusting after Jimmy and I'm reliably informed have started stalking him on FB heheh )
One of Steve's friends came along and recited some poetry he had written. And Jean-Luc and Steve - the sly fellows got Chris, Steve's very small and cute nephew to go around with a bowl to collect additional funds for the Charity.
The food was delicious - Goat Curry with rice, jerk chicken, dumplings, fried plantain, salad and some other stuff... followed by fresh fruit salad dessert - a lot of the fresh produce was donated by MWW Ltd.(Thank you)
I was one of the last to leave, sticking around to speak to Steve with some other friends over a nice glass of white wine. Steve gets extra cool points for loving salsa and wanting to take up Kizomba.. we will no doubt meet again at one of the classes.
Steve gave me one of his business cards.. I thought it very interesting that where you would normally find the title it read " Artist " - that's so cool....lol
I got to bed for midnight, everyone I had spoken to had fun, and I was nice and mellow. Compliments poured in all day today and it was great to get the following email from Jean-Luc
From: Jean-Luc Priez [mailto:Jean-LucP@Lenchs-Trust.co.uk]
Sent: 04 June 2010 09:12
To: Andreas Sticher; David Pugh; Inderpal Lotay (ilotay@twinbuild.com); Naraine Jimmy; Parveen Mehta; Qasim Majid; Stuart Cusworth
Subject: Jazz Evening
Importance: High
Dear all,
Thank you very much for your support yesterday evening – I think we all agree it was a fantastic event which raised £340 net for the team + excellent PR for all (Kate, our Trustee, was impressed by the goodwill generated towards the Trust).
Thank you to Andreas’s company for the £1,000 sponsorship. I am waiting to have full details to send an official Thank You letter to their MD. Parveen may like to mention them in the blog – Lisega Ltd United Kingdom.
Parveen – your friends Raj & Debbie added a £50 donation if you wish to acknowledge.
All in all a very productive evening – and I hope we can pull another one sometime after our return!
Good luck with your sponsorship chasing...
Jean-Luc
Jean-Luc & a team of supporters will be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in June 2010 in aid of our capital appeal for William Lench Court. If you wish to help us raise money for this valuable cause please go directly to our JustGiving webpage www.justgiving.com/kiliman-jaro
Follow our journey at http://to-the-summit-kilimanjaro.blogspot.com/
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