Thank you for your support for the Teddy Tombola
At the Pattingham Christmas Lights switch on event on 24th November 2024, we were very fortunate that the organisers gifted us a free stall to do a Christmas Teddy Tombola!
The aim of the tombola was to raise as much money as we could for Ukraine. Admittedly, we were really nervous before the event, despite the encouragement and support of our Tuesday evening Prayers for Peace group. The war had disappeared from the headlines in recent months and would anyone really want a Christmas Teddy Bear at all? To our surprise, in appalling weather, the stall sold out in under 45 minutes and we were moved and humbled by some of the comments and donations given to support Ukraine.
£50 was the final sum from twenty teddy bears. Every penny has gone to UNICEF and to children living day to day with the war and its consequences in Ukraine.
A massive THANK YOU to anyone who provided an email contact, gave me a teddy bear, had a spin on the tombola wheel then said “keep the teddy for a little one” and handed over their £2.00 anyway, the list could go on and on.
We just wanted to say that every little helped and thank you! We hope and pray that soon there will be peace and justice for the people of Ukraine.
Mark and Jill Baker
