President Jason Waghorne, welcomed all the guests and thanked everyone for their support, this was followed by speeches from Christine Peveritt, President of the ICAEW and Stephen Foulkes, Chair of the CIOT.
Inspirational words were spoken by Tanya Taylor, the representative from Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance, encouraging us all to dig deep for the fantastic raffle prizes and silent auction prize kindly donated by Stratstone Land Rover.
We would like to thank Marcus Jones at Stratstone for allowing us the use of their fantastic showroom and for their kind donation of an 'Land Rover Experience for 4' at Rockingham Castle. The winners of the Land Rover experience was joint bids from Honorary Secretary, Shama Gupta (from Freeths) and Past President of ICAEW Anshu Mehan (from HSKS Greenhalgh).
Thank you to our sponsors Ginger Root, Brewin Dolphin, TBAT Innovation & Alexander Recruitment and to Stratstone Land Rover for allowing us to use their fantastic showroom. The caterers Mrs B's provided some wonderful Pimms, beers and canapés.
The event was a great success and £423 was raised for Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance with some wonderful raffle prizes donated by Paul Smiths Designs, TM Lewin, Radcliffe on Trent Golf Course, Nottinghamshire County Cricket, Perkins Bar & Bistro, Red Letter Days, Mrs B’s Catering, Cockett Farm Clay Pigeon Shooting, Weavers Wine. Plus a Land Rover experience from Stratstone.