100 Comiston members and their guests rocked up to Carrickvale GC for the Fun Night fundraiser on 28th February. A successful evening was assured with 136 tickets having been sold as well as all the horses, jockeys and trainers available for sale beforehand. In addition, the response from members for raffle prizes was brilliant with over 50 raffle prizes being donated.
James, from Premier Disco, ran the evening entertainment with panache (although next time we might try to get our phones set up for the interactive quiz in advance) and did a fantastic job of building up the auction for the horses in the final race. Congratulations to the winning team led, appropriately, by Captain Viv Curran.
Particular thanks to Susan Randall who organised the event with Premier Disco and Carrickvale. These events demand lots of effort and participation from a wide range of people so thank you to all who bought tickets (whether or not they could attend), made donations of money and prizes, helped with the organisation on the night and brought along guests. Superb effort!
The money raised from ticket sales, horse/jockey/owner sales, donations and money raised on the actual evening of the Fun Night came to just over £2000. Together with funds already raised from corporate donations and from Comiston's own funds, we now have £4500 set aside for hosting the MM in 2021. We are in excellent financial shape as we think this is pretty much the funds we will require to host the event.
Congratulations to Comiston members for a sterling effort. Now we can concentrate on enjoying our Centenary year.
