Another successful Minehead Bay Festival!

Saturday 30th August saw several members of the club helping Minehead & Coast Development Trust again by marshalling at the annual Minehead Bay Festival.
We also had the opportunity to set up our gazebo (@ no cost to us) and we used the occasion to focus on fundraising with the find-a-fiver boards (thanks Richard W.), the spin-the-wheel (thanks Mollie) and, at last, a Tombola made up largely of bottles and cans left over from our BBQ, with a sprinkling of toiletries and soft toys. Thank you to all who donated the extra gifts - we raised a total of £380.

The weather forecast in the run up to the Festival had not been encouraging but all was going well until mid afternoon when the tail end of an Atlantic storm arrived, most people ran for shelter and all went quiet. Fortunately most of our funds had already been raised so we weren’t too badly affected but it did make for a damp and rather quiet last couple of hours.
Thanks as ever to everyone who helped to set up and take down the gazebo, those who  volunteered to marshal and those who spent some time manning the gazebo. Some did both and it made for quite a long day. It turned out to be a helpful boost to Club funds, to be put towards our Youth activities.