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Playing the game of bingo has helped to raise awareness for St Catherine’s Hospice. A fundraising charity event was set up by the Hospice, which took the form of a two course lunch at The Mount Hotel in Cliff Bridge Terrace.
It has been reported that nearly 50 business people from the Scarborough area attended the luncheon, which was hailed to be a great success. During the event, guests moved tables in between their courses, which was a part of the networking strategy and they had to fill out bingo cards from numbers which were stuck onto each person.
I have never heard of playing bingo in this kind of way before, but what a great fun concept of the bingo game to play! Who ever thought up this great idea, should get a well earned pat on the back for coming up with such a fun bingo event, which also helped to raise awareness for St Catherine’s Hospice as it was intended to do!
If you can make an event interesting and fun, then this is what people will remember and they will be more likely to attend more events of the same!
Lee Barker is the chief executive from St Catherine’s Hospice and he had this to say about the bingo fundraising event: “Everybody seems to have been busy networking.
This is the first time we have done a bingo session. We try to vary how we do the networking at each lunch. It is a very worthwhile event, not just for different businesses to meet each other and get feedback but also for the hospice to raise awareness of our work among the business community.”
This was the fifth such lunch, to have been hosted by the St Catherine’s Hospice, where it seems like everyone who attended had a blast as well as having a game of bingo. Saint Catherine’s Hospice is an hospice for adult’s ad it cares for people with life limiting or life threatening conditions, which also includes their families from Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale and parts of East Yorkshire areas. St Catherine’s hospice, say that while cancer is the most common illness amongst their patients, they also care for people with neurological diseases including multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease and this is a very important part of their work.
It is great to see that the game of bingo can help to bring awareness to such worthwhile charities like St Catherine’s Hospice.
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