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September 23rd, 2009 by admin
We are delighted to report that Butterfly Events made it to the final 3 in the category Best Local Charity in the 2009 West Sound/fm Community Awards. The ceremony was on Thursday 8th Oct at Ayr Racecourse. Sharon from my committee and I had a great evening but unfortunetly we did’nt win. The trophy was presented to Woodroad regeneration in Cumnock, Congratulations to them. A huge thank you to everyone who voted for us.
For more information about the awards log onto www.westfm.co.uk. Our photos will be available soon.
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June 29th, 2009 by Lorna
This new event was a huge success at Lochside House Hotel.
Guests were entertained with a dance show by Cumnock Highland Dance School and a fashion show by Begg Scotland, 0290 of Cumnock, Jackie Jeans & AM Christies of Galston.
We had a fabulous lunch provided by the staff of Lochside and we enjoyed guest speakers including Rowan Main of Cancer Research UK, Fiona Lees of East Ayrshire Council, Philippa Whitford Breast Reconstruction Surgeon and Jen McGinlay of West FM.
Our auction was sponsored by Mums in Control Magazine and saw local editor, Nikki Niven play Auctioneer for the afternoon.
It total we raised a fabulous £1500 for CRUK.
Thank you to everyone who attended.
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June 29th, 2009 by Lorna
This new event was a great success on Friday 7th Aug, with 20 cars leaving from Prestwick Circuits. Some people were still searching for answers once darkening had fell. Thank you very much to everyone who came along. Congratulations to everyone for completing but especially our winners.
1st – “The Dream Team” 2nd – “Curry Queens” 3rd – “The 3 Musketeers”.
And the boobie prize went to – “Duns & Jennifer”
A special mention must also go to the girls from “Shiver me timbers” team, who dressed up for the occasion.
Thank you very much to Sharon Swan & Catherine Hutton for putting our hunt together, we really apprecaite it girls.
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June 29th, 2009 by Lorna
A great time was had by all at our first Charity Clay Pigeon Shoot on Saturday 5th September hosted by Craigengillan Country Sports Club. Thank you to everyone who came along and to the boys for helping me to organise the day.
After our 25 bird competition in the afternoon our winners were : – 1st place Sandy Gray with 22 point. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th place were a shoot off with both all competitors achieving 20 points. 2nd place was finally won by Steven Gray and 3rd place Jim Baird. 1st novice was Steven White with 13 points, winning a days pheasant shooting with the club. Bad luck to our Booby prize winner Alex Yates, whose sheet was filled with polo mints, so he was telling everyone after a few drams!!
We are definetly having this event again at the beginning of next year. If you are interested in coming along please get in touch.
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June 29th, 2009 by Lorna
Attention all Ladies !!
This is your last chance to book a table for this years Butterfly Bazaar on Sunday 25th Oct. A fun filled frenzy is gauanteed!
Book your table now for 10 guests, only £250
Includes – Glass of pink punch, 2 course lunch, catwalk, dancing……
….. I can’t give away all the surprises. Contact me NOW !!
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June 29th, 2009 by Lorna
On Monday 4th May, Lorna received a letter from the charity to say she had been nominated for a Flame of Hope Award by her community fund-raising Manager Rowan Main. Lorna has won this award and will attend a glittering ceremony on Friday 12th June at The Hotel Russell in London, with committee member Margarette Bryan to pick up her prestigious award.
“I cannot beleive, out of everyone who volunteers for the charity all over the country that I have won, I am gobsmaked. You never start something like this to win awards, all I want to do is make a difference. Margarette and I cannot wait to attend the ceremony in London in June to bring my award home, to show my supporters”.
More info and photos to come soon.
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June 29th, 2009 by Lorna
Lorna was invited to speak at Bellsbank Projects AGM on Wednesday 13th May 2009. She gave an emotional speech on how Butterfly Events begun to 30 guests. The evening concluded with the members voting for Butterfly Events as their joint charity of the year 09/10
“I would like thank Nancy Murray, Chairwomen of the project and Kirsty, Project Leader for inviting me to speak at their AGM, I thoroughly enjoyed my evening. I am also thrilled that they have voted Butterfly Events as their charity of the year”
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June 29th, 2009 by Lorna
I would like to say happy birthday to new supporter Bill McKenzie of ACMS Construction. Bill was 60 years young in April. Lorna surprised Bill with a card and small gift at the recent gents only evening, and unbeknown to her, Bill surprised her in return with a huge donation of £500 from his party. Bill invited his friends and relatives at his party to make a donation to our fund, instead of buying him a gift.
“I would like to thank Bill and all of this guests for thinking of us during his 60th Birthday celebrations. This was an extremely kind and generous act, especially as Bill had never met me or even been to one of my events before. This money will be added to our fund, which is making a huge difference to Cancer Research UK”
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