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Claire is striking out into a new venue with her latest book sale – taking one of the 100 stalls at the Brentford Festival in Blondin Park this Sunday.
She’ll be there from 12-6 selling mainly second-hand books in aid of Tom’s Fund.
Other attractions at the show include live bands, food stalls and a dog show so come along and support Claire if you can.
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Sue Howells, Claire Prosser and Chris Pearson brave the rain.
Claire’s pop-up book sale raised a further £168 for CRY on Saturday – despite the torrential rain.
“I was surprised but really pleased by how much we raised,” said Claire. “I’m also very grateful to all those who bought books and especially to Sue and Chris for helping.”
The money adds to the £870 raised by Claire’s main book sale in May – which also had to contend with wet weather – and means that the two events have raised a grand total of £1038.
The sales take place outside Munson’s Coffee, St Mary’s Road. Ealing. All unsold books are donated to Oxfam in Ealing so nothing goes to waste.
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Unbowed under-cover: from left to right, Claire with helpers Rob Sanders, Jo Tucker, Martin Hale, Andy Howells, Elin Hale, Chris Tucker and Sue Howells.
With six months to go in Tom’s Fund’s attempt to raise £100,000 to provide more free heart screenings for young people, we are closing in on our target.
After all the brilliant recent support, we are now into the ‘teens’ and need around £19,000 to make the £100k that we’d love to mark the year during which Tom would have been 21.
For my part, rain failed to dampen our spirits – as we used to write in my old newspaper days – when we held our most recent book sale.
With the help of a gazebo belonging to Rob and Caro Sanders and lots of volunteers we managed to raise £870 at the event outside Munsons cafe in South Ealing.
A generous donation from Munsons took us over the £80,000 mark – all of which will go towards CRY’s heart screenings and research.
So hugest thanks once again to Mario and the baristas, customers and helpers who made it such a successful day.
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A sale of new and nearly new books at much reduced prices will be held tomorrow in aid of Tom’s Fund in South Ealing.
Come rain or shine, the annual Spring sale will be held by Claire in aid of Tom’s Fund outside Munson’s Cafe at 73 St Mary’s Rd, London W5, from 10am-3pm.
So top up your summer holiday reading while supporting Cardiac Risk in the Young.
All the money raised goes to fund the local free heart-screenings for young people run by CRY. This year’s Ealing screenings are scheduled for November.
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Book-lovers should head to South Ealing on Saturday, May 24th for a sale of new books at much reduced prices.
The annual Spring sale is being held by Claire in aid of Tom’s Fund and on past experience could help people top up their summer holiday reading while supporting Cardiac Risk in the Young.
All the money raised goes to fund the local free heart-screenings for young people run by CRY. This year’s screenings are scheduled for November.
The sale will be held outside Munsons Cafe at 73 St Mary’s Rd, London W5, from 10am-3pm.
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Angelique, Jacky, Ruth, Simon, Vicky and Claire
Claire’s report: Cake and book lovers flocked to our latest sale in aid of Tom’s fund on Tuesday December 3rd. The sale – our 12th – was held at the BBC where I worked full time until March this year.
Start of the sale…
Hundreds of books had been donated and West London’s amateur bakers had been out in force too* – with the icing on the cake (as it were) going to these cupcakes decorated with books!
Yummy cupcakes
As ever these sales take a lot of effort – otherwise I would be organising them once a week! Hugest thanks go first to Ruth Akins who hosted the sale at the BBC and organised all the tables, setting up and teams of helpers. Others who played their part on the day were Vicky Pearson, Jacky Hems, Simon Wright, Sue Ellis, Angelique Halliburton, Lorna Donlan, Phill Thomas, Bridget Osborne, Sam Upton, Elspeth Morrison and Jane Kinghorn.
Lots of customers!
Thanks also go to former BBC colleagues – Annie Flury on Radio Five Live, Gillian Dear on Radio Four and the One Show for their contributions. We couldn’t do it without you!
So the grand total – yes I know you were wondering about that – was a wonderful £834 which will all go to funding screenings for young people in West London.
Keep your eyes on the site for the next sale which will probably be in the spring outside Munsons cafe in Ealing.
*Those bakers in full: Ruth Akins, Gina Bentley, Elin Hale, Faith Howells, Shona MacMillan, Alison Montgomery, Elspeth Morrison, Linda Panzer, Elizabeth Porter, Anne-Marie Reilly, Isabel Turner and Debbie Young.
Ruth, Jacky and Angelique on cakes
Angelique puts finishing touches to the cake stall
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