"Short Notice" Raffle Boosts Charity Total

Published by Rob1 for Community Gateway Association in Housing and also in Communities

Community Gateway Association(CGA) colleagues kicked off their yearly charity fundraising drive with a "Short Notice" raffle that raised £166 for the organisations designated charity Heartbeat. Each year a local charity is chosen by colleagues at our Staff Day event.

Last year the organisation raised over £1500, for Preston Domestic Violence Services and over the past five years £8000 pounds has been raised for local charities.

The raffle took place on CGA Dress Down Friday with a Nintendo DSi up for grabs kindly donated by Bramall Construction. Other prizes included a £50 Gardening Voucher from Sodexho and donated bottles of wine from other colleagues

The lucky winner was Nadine Duckworth who recently joined CGA as a Welfare Benefits advisor.

Nigel Mawdsley presented Nadine with her prize and commented "Over the past 5 years CGA colleagues have generously donated money to a number of worthy causes, we are proud this year to be raising money for our chosen charity Heartbeat , though times are hard we could not do this without the support of our partners who donate prizes for us to raffle"