Exciting Raffle prizes!

[andreak]

GRAND PRIZE DRAW!

As we've mentioned before, the Southend Victoria branch of Pets at Home have chosen Castledon to be their nominated charity
This means that when they have one of their Fundraising Drives, everything that they raise in their branch is donated to Castledon

The next Pets at Home Fundraising Drive starts on Wednesday 16th April with the main event being a raffle with some fantastic prizes!
The First Prize is, wait for it - A BRAND NEW CAR!
Each branch of Pets at Home is tasked with selling their own tickets, with every single penny from each ticket sold going to their nominated charity - in Southend Victoria's case, US!

Here are a list of the prizes:

First Prize - A Ford Fiesta Zetec 1.0, worth over £10,000!

Second Prize - £500 Thomson Holiday Vouchers

Third Prize - A Samsung TV

Fourth Prize - Xbox One with FIFA Bundle

Fifth Prize - Adult or Child's bike

Sixth prize - Apple iPad Air

7th Prize - £400 Pet Cottage Vouchers

8th prize - 2 x £100 Pets at Home Vouchers

9th Prize - 4 x £25 Thornton's Chocolate Hamper

Plus, lots more!

Not bad, eh?
Tickets cost £1 each and we have some to sell, with ALL proceeds from the sale of each ticket going to Castledon!
The Draw takes place on Wednesday 11th June 2014

If you fancy trying your luck at winning one of these super prizes, why not treat yourselves to a couple (or more!) of the tickets?


I will be taking the tickets to the Barleylands Fun Walk on Sunday 18th May, so if you're going, be sure to ask me there.
Or if you're not coming and would like some tickets, I can send you some through the post.

IMPORTANT: The money for tickets has to go through the Pets at Home till so that they can keep track of how much each branch has raised.
As they no longer take cheques, if you could make any cheques payable to 'Mrs A Kirk', i'll pay them into my account and exchange them for cash to pay for your tickets ( -trust me, i'm a Trustee!   )

If you could send your cheques to me at 18 Colworth Close, Hadleigh, Benfleet SS7 2SP, that would be brilliant.
Note added 20th April - please be sure to include your phone number, as we need this for the ticket stub.

The more tickets we sell, the more money will be raised for Castledon!
Please do buy some if you can!
GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL - Hopefully a Castledon supporter (or Two!) will pick up a prize!

[Mr Tink]

Blimey, how exciting! We'll definitely buy some tickets off you at Barleylands.

[jackiespack]

Greyt news for Castledon, let's hope loads of tickets are sold, we'd certainly like some.

We won't make to the Barleylands Walk Andrea, but was wondering if you're going to the Greyhound Extravaganza on 25th May. If you are we'll have some tickets then, if not we'll pop a cheque in the post.

Jackie

[andreak]

Hi Jackie!
We have to get the ticket and monies back to Pets at Home by 20th May, so the Barleylands Walk is the last opportunity for us to sell them, unfortunately
I know it's a bit far for yourselves and Harley, but if anyone else is going to the Hadleigh Greyhound Walk on Sunday 4th May, we'be bringing them along to that, too.

We're hoping to get along to the Extravaganza - not sure how Polo will react to such a large crowd, but he did us proud at last weeks' Greyhound Walk, so it's looking good!
As long as we can find him a quiet spot out of the way, I think that he'll be fine

So, if you could pop us a cheque in the post, Jackie that'd be great! (Please could you make it payable to Mrs A Kirk)
It would be so brilliant if a Castledon-sold ticket won a prize ( - Polo & Elsa have their eyes on the £400 of Pet Holiday Vouchers!)

[jackiespack]

Apr 13, 2014 11:40:53 GMT andreak said:

Hi Jackie!
We have to get the ticket and monies back to Pets at Home by 20th May, so the Barleylands Walk is the last opportunity for us to sell them, unfortunately
I know it's a bit far for yourselves and Harley, but if anyone else is going to the Hadleigh Greyhound Walk on Sunday 4th May, we'be bringing them along to that, too.

We're hoping to get along to the Extravaganza - not sure how Polo will react to such a large crowd, but he did us proud at last weeks' Greyhound Walk, so it's looking good!
As long as we can find him a quiet spot out of the way, I think that he'll be fine

So, if you could pop us a cheque in the post, Jackie that'd be great! (Please could you make it payable to Mrs A Kirk)
It would be so brilliant if a Castledon-sold ticket won a prize ( - Polo & Elsa have their eyes on the £400 of Pet Holiday Vouchers!)

Thanks for your reply Andrea. We are regulars at the monthly Brandon Greyhound Walk which is also on 4th May, so we'll put a cheque in the post during the week. Would you like us to include a SAE with payment to save you postage costs in sending tickets to us?

Hopefully we'll see you at the Extravaganza, it would greyt to see Polo (and Elsa of course) it sounds as though he's been doing really in the short time that he's been with you.

[moysey]

Wow what fantastic prizes, we will certainly have some when we see you at Barleylands. Sophie and Harry rather fancy the Pets and Home vouchers. You can get a lot of pigs ears for £100

[andreak]

Apr 13, 2014 15:55:17 GMT jackiespack said:

Apr 13, 2014 11:40:53 GMT andreak said:

Hi Jackie!
We have to get the ticket and monies back to Pets at Home by 20th May, so the Barleylands Walk is the last opportunity for us to sell them, unfortunately
I know it's a bit far for yourselves and Harley, but if anyone else is going to the Hadleigh Greyhound Walk on Sunday 4th May, we'be bringing them along to that, too.

We're hoping to get along to the Extravaganza - not sure how Polo will react to such a large crowd, but he did us proud at last weeks' Greyhound Walk, so it's looking good!
As long as we can find him a quiet spot out of the way, I think that he'll be fine

So, if you could pop us a cheque in the post, Jackie that'd be great! (Please could you make it payable to Mrs A Kirk)
It would be so brilliant if a Castledon-sold ticket won a prize ( - Polo & Elsa have their eyes on the £400 of Pet Holiday Vouchers!)

Thanks for your reply Andrea. We are regulars at the monthly Brandon Greyhound Walk which is also on 4th May, so we'll put a cheque in the post during the week. Would you like us to include a SAE with payment to save you postage costs in sending tickets to us?

Hopefully we'll see you at the Extravaganza, it would greyt to see Polo (and Elsa of course) it sounds as though he's been doing really in the short time that he's been with you.

If you could put a SAE in that would be very helpful thank you, Jackie

[jackiespack]

Apr 14, 2014 21:01:21 GMT andreak said:

Apr 13, 2014 15:55:17 GMT jackiespack said:

Thanks for your reply Andrea. We are regulars at the monthly Brandon Greyhound Walk which is also on 4th May, so we'll put a cheque in the post during the week. Would you like us to include a SAE with payment to save you postage costs in sending tickets to us?

Hopefully we'll see you at the Extravaganza, it would greyt to see Polo (and Elsa of course) it sounds as though he's been doing really in the short time that he's been with you.

If you could put a SAE in that would be very helpful thank you, Jackie

Cheque in post Andrea. Like Sophie and Harry, Tom and Harley also fancy the Pets at Home vouchers. So looks as though those two prizes have been claimed already.

[andreak]

Hi Jackie! Your cheque arrived today for your raffle tickets - thank you!
Could you pm me your phone number, please as I need it for the ticket stubs ( - much quicker that writing the address on each one, that's for sure!)

Will post your tickets out on Tuesday - good luck!

[andreak]

Thank you to everyone who purchased raffle tickets - all the stubs have been sent in and you're all in the draw!

We managed to sell a whopping £220 worth of tickets, which will be added to those that were sold at the Southend Victoria branch of Pets at Home.
This means that we're in for a very generous donation in the not too distant future !

Thank you all again and GOOD LUCK!

[andreak]

There's good news and bad news, folks.
We'll start with the bad - a Castledon Supporter didn't win the car in the raffle

BUT.....
........The good news is that we received a cheque for, wait for it, a whopping £1537.69 from Pets at Home, Southend Victoria!

This was achieved mainly through their ticket sales for the raffle, so thank you to everyone who bought some!
A very big thank you to the staff in the store who are very supportive of us


Elsa giving Angel a 'pep talk' about how to behave during a presentation photo shoot


Angel: "does my bum look big in this?"


Elsa showing Seamus & Angel how NOT to behave during a Presentation photo shoot


Elsa: "are we going yet?"

All the dogs were very well behaved, as usual and Seamus & Angel are still patiently waiting for their forever homes....

[Mr Tink]

How wonderful. I wish I had won Chalky in the raffle

[andyt]

Greyt result!

[jackiespack]

Brilliant!

[moysey]

What a fantastic amount. Castldon certainly was a winner