VIPs??? Options

[Guest_Bill1_*]

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article...articleID=11801


That's only £4 each.

Tightwads.

[Iommi]

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article...articleID=11801 ://http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/...rticleID=11801 That's only £4 each. Tightwads.

Yes, only another 62500 similar events to reach their target. How they couldn't raise a grand is laughable.

[Gumbo]

Surely this is a wind up?!?!

Did these people have to pay for their meal and champagne? or did it come out of expenses? They should be ashamed of themselves.

[Hugh Saskin]

Surely this is a wind up?!?!

Did these people have to pay for their meal and champagne? or did it come out of expenses? They should be ashamed of themselves.

Let's hope there's a nought or two missing from the news report. 160 sovs is the sort of amount you'd expect a jumble sale at Tiddley Under Fenton to raise for repainting the loos in the village hall.

[Guest_Bill1_*]

Glad I'm not alone in thinking this.

Swings and Smiles, like many other charities, is a very worthy cause. I know of events both socially and where I work taking place, for this and other causes, where "normal" folk such as I have made these "VIPs" fundraising efforts seem laughable and whilst "every little helps" I'd have thought they could have dug a little deeper, much deeper in fact.

[theone09]

Sainsbury's have raised more money for them than this(a good few thousand). Swings & Smiles is the Newbury Sainsbury's store charity of the year.

[user23]

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article...articleID=11801


That's only £4 each.

Tightwads.

I trust everyone moaning about this will be contributing towards the charity in question.

[Hugh Saskin]

I trust everyone moaning about this will be contributing towards the charity in question.

I have already contributed to three charities in the past five days and am a trustee of another, before I do so - your track record, please?

[user23]

I have already contributed to three charities in the past five days and am a trustee of another, before I do so - your track record, please?

The line "I do a lot for charity but I don't like to talk about it" springs to mind.

Have you contributed to the charity in question?

[Hugh Saskin]

The line "I do a lot for charity but I don't like to talk about it" springs to mind.

Have you contributed to the charity in question?

Not yet - have you then?

and yes, I don't like to talk about my work for charity but, since you don't know who I am, I think I can allow myself to mention it.

[Strafin]

The line "I do a lot for charity but I don't like to talk about it" springs to mind.

Have you contributed to the charity in question?

Have you? Why is it relevant? The fact is 40 people held a fundraiser raised a very small amount each. It is more than they started with granted but is it worth a write up? Should the restaurant really be publicising to be honest I'm sure the VIP's have done their fair share of fundraising between them, it just seems wrong to harp on about £4, although it is the Newbury Weekly News, not the dignitries themselves who published the story.

[Iommi]

I trust everyone moaning about this will be contributing towards the charity in question.

Unless the NWN story is in error, it is an embarrassing amount. Whether I will be contributing to the charity is a different matter. If I was invited to a charity bash, I would contribute more than £4.00. Bear in mind this is an average, meaning some would have contributed less.

[Guest_Newbury Expat_*]

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article...articleID=11801


That's only £4 each.

Tightwads.

Only another 6,249 VIP events to go then, to hit their goal.......

[Simon]

what makes you a VIP in newbury anyway? Im sure 40 non VIPs would be able to raise more than that amount. Gotta be a typo, NWN please can you confirm?

[TallDarkAndHands...]

what makes you a VIP in newbury anyway? Im sure 40 non VIPs would be able to raise more than that amount. Gotta be a typo, NWN please can you confirm?

Well According to Wikipedia these are famous people from Newbury:

Famous people
A number of famous people have originated from, worked, lived or died in Newbury:

Richard Adams – author
Roger Attfield – thoroughbred horse trainer
Francis Baily – astronomer
Captain Collet Barker - early Australian explorer
Michael Bond – creator of Paddington Bear
Bruno Brookes – radio and tv presenter
Duke of Chandos – bought his 2nd wife in Newbury
Earl of Carnarvon – killed at the 1st battle of Newbury
Keith Chegwin – television presenter
Miles Coverdale – co-author of the 1st English Bible
Emma Crosby – television presenter
George Dangerfield – journalist and author
Lord Falkland – killed at the 1st battle of Newbury
Sebastian Faulks – author
Gerald Finzi – composer and founder of the Newbury String Players
Jill Fraser - theatre owner and director
Christopher Hall - artist and former Mayor of Newbury
Lord Hanson - industrialist
Alec Hopkins – actor
Sir Michael Hordern - actor
Tom Hynes - bass guitarist of metal band Malefice
John Kendrick – patron of the town
William Marshal – given up as a hostage from 'Newbury Castle'
George Melly - jazz musician and writer
Jack O'Newbury – cloth merchant & patron
William of Newbury – 13th century Abbot of Abingdon
Baron Palumbo - property developer and art collector
Jacqueline du Pré – one of the best twentieth century Cello players
Hannah Richings – member of preteen UK pop group S Club 8
Lord George Sanger – circus owner born in Newbury who presented the Queen Victoria statue to the town in 1902
John Septimus Roe – the first Surveyor-General of Western Australia
Hannah Snell – 18th century female soldier
Earl of Sunderland – killed at the 1st battle of Newbury
Edward Charles Titchmarsh – mathematician
Theo Walcott – footballer, originally for A.F.C. Newbury
Sir Frank Williams – grand prix motor racing manager
John Winchcombe II – cloth merchant & patron, son of Jack O'Newbury
Will Young - singer/actor

Now that would have been an interesting meal........ I wonder if the Duke of Chandos got his monies worth?

[Guest_Bill1_*]

I trust everyone moaning about this will be contributing towards the charity in question.

Have you? Why is it relevant? The fact is 40 people held a fundraiser raised a very small amount each. It is more than they started with granted but is it worth a write up? Should the restaurant really be publicising to be honest I'm sure the VIP's have done their fair share of fundraising between them, it just seems wrong to harp on about £4, although it is the Newbury Weekly News, not the dignitries themselves who published the story.

Spot on Strafin.

User23 why do you always have to be so "controversial"? To answer your question I refer you to my earlier post.

[Guest_Bill1_*]

User23, I meant this one, in case you are uncertain.

Glad I'm not alone in thinking this.

Swings and Smiles, like many other charities, is a very worthy cause. I know of events both socially and where I work taking place, for this and other causes, where "normal" folk such as I have made these "VIPs" fundraising efforts seem laughable and whilst "every little helps" I'd have thought they could have dug a little deeper, much deeper in fact.

[Strafin]

Being a VIP doesn't necessarily mean you are rich. You could just have worked really hard for the charity or the restaurant and been invited along.

[user23]

Spot on Strafin.

User23 why do you always have to be so "controversial"? To answer your question I refer you to my earlier post.

I think Strafin has answered this one for me with his post above.

[Iommi]

It is still tight!