Over the years Redbridge group has raised considerable sums of money for various national and local charities. Our current (2024) charity is Barnados, the children’s charity based in Barkingside.
In May 2024, we held a charity quiz night at our regular Friday night meeting venue, the Goodmayes Community Centre. Trev was the first person to arrive at the centre to open it up and set up the tables and chairs for the evening’s entertainment.
He was soon joined by Chris D and Martin D to finish off setting up the venue. From 7.30 onwards the quiz participants started to arrive, eager to test their knowledge and enjoy a hopefully entertaining night out. There were four teams taking part, one consisting mainly of Redbridge members, one being members of other local groups, the third being members of the Epping Forest Outdoor Group (Efog), and the final team being a couple of Plus members from the midlands together with Hilary, Fran and Elliot’s mum. Having collected the money from the participants and having sold the raffle tickets, the quiz commenced.
There were eight rounds of questions, plus a table round of Dingbats, pictures which represent a well known saying or proverb, with a break midway through the rounds. Trev and Francesca asked the questions and then marked the answers to the round of questions they had just asked, alternating so that one read out the questions whilst the other marked the teams’ answers to the previous round, to ensure that the event flowed smoothly.
After abou1½ hours the quiz was finished and the final round of questions were marked whilst the raffle was held. Francesca and her mum won the first two prizes, (talk about keeping it in the family!). However, we had plenty of raffle prizes and most people won a prize of some sort. Once the raffle was completed it was time to reveal the final scores. It was a fairly close quiz, with the Efog team finishing runners up and the winners being the team from the midlands and Hilary, winning by a couple of points, and taking the prizes.
It had been an enjoyable night’s quiz, all teams doing well and we raised about £160 for the charity. I’d like to thank Fran and Trev for organising and running the quiz and thanks also to everyone who helped out and took part.
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