Day 32 - ECPC - Berkshire
2011-08-11
Date: Tuesday 9th August 2011 Venue: Riley’s, Reading, Berkshire Frame Played: 25 Frames Won: 23 Frames Running Total: 721/800 In my personal opinion there has been no harder worker than Dominique Chiu who organised the Berkshire county despite not living in Berkshire herself as not being local, she found it very hard to recruit helpers for this event. Not only that, once a venue had been found (Riley’s) and a structure established with the manager, a few weeks before the event the manager had left the company.
This set Dominique back and she had to do it all over again and to her credit, she did. Along with a new team (the girls at Riley’s especially Shona) they managed to organise a fancy dress evening which raised £400 to go with some funds Dominique had raised, and including the exhibition evening itself, their target was almost met but we still have the remainder of the year to raise the funds.
Along with a wonderful selection of raffle prizes gained by the riley’s girls and a 32 person knockout competition running alongside a speedball competition as well as the exhibition, it was a night of constant activity and everyone throughly enjoyed themselves.
It’s amazing how some places seems to get a lot of support, but then in others, there’s no support whatsoever so I take my hat off to Dominique for never giving up despite several setbacks.