TOFS raffle Winner announced!

On Monday 17 December at 12noon the Mayor of Gedling chose a ticket from over 3000 sold to win our draw for return flights to New York with Virgin Airways.  The winner is: Judith Rennie, (Adult TOF) fom Marlborough in Wilshire. Congratulations!

A huge thank you to all those who bought tickets, or sold them on TOFS behalf.  You’ve raised over £3k for TOFS.  Wow - thank you!

Pictured:  Mayor of Gedling draws the winning ticket, with Wendy Bell (TOFS trustee and Virgin employee), and TOFS president, Christine Shepherd.

The TOFS group, from left to right: Graham Slater, Jayne Allitt, Diane Stephens, Wendy Bell, Mayor of Gedling and her husband, Christine Shepherd, Sue Lewis-Jones.

A big thank you to all of you who took up the challenge of selling tickets on our behalf:
Wendy Bell
Christine Shepherd
John Pearce
Kate Burrell
Roger Lawson
Duncan Jackson
Andrea Westbury
Sue Lewis-Jones
Glenda Hope
Sophie Smallwood
Howard Sharman
Dr Veronica Radford
Caroline Love
Lucy McGowan
Nikki Ayling
Kay Leech
Andrew Cowling
Anna Barker
Susan Martin
Jo Okley
Emily Howes
Ray Clifford
Keri Patton
Shona Sneddon
Julie Logan
Beth Mitchell
Narinder Frahm
Diane Lowe
Claire Burnside
Narinder Frahm
Hannah Jenkins
Claire Stephens
Alison Briggs
Debbie Craven-Smith
Claire Cooper-Jones
Denise Ritson
Sandra Rainbird
Lucy McGowan
Caroline Legg
Paula Corbett
Lesley Metcalf
Sara Dolan
David Reed
Kate Brown
Ann-Marie Offord
Brian Ayre
Lindsey Baylis
Claire Stewart

We know what a task selling tickets can be so special thanks to you all.  Top sellers were Brian Ayre, Redcar, and Shona Sneddon, Dundee.  They were closely followed by Katie Burrell, Julie Logan, Christine Shepherd, Howard Sharman, Kay Leech, Andrew Cowling, Jo Oakley, Claire Stephens and Claire Stewart.  Not forgetting those of you who bought directly from our webpage, and spreading the word, forwarding the link to friends and family.  Finally, those of you who bought tickets at our Adult Conference.
 
Special thanks must go to trustee (and chief ticket folder!) Wendy Bell for getting the prize in the first instance and selling furiously thereafter! 

So how do we follow this in 2013?  Could you help us source the main prize?  We managed to get this prize in the first instance because trustee Wendy Bell works for Virgin Atlantic and nominated TOFS as a charity in their monthly draw which is part of their community investment project.  Does the company you work for run similar charity draws?  If so, can you nominate TOFS to win?  As well as the main prize this year we’d like to offer smaller prizes.  Vouchers would be great as they’re easy to post.
Or would you be able to help us by getting involved with the administrative tasks of running the raffle.  We’d like to set up a small committee to oversee it in 2013?  You needn’t be close geographically to the TOFS office as we could do everything remotely.  Please email if you’d like to know more.  .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)