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Essential Feature

Barclays cash deposit
boosts BBQ fundraiser
Warrington Disability Partnership’s
(WDP) annual DAD Mega BBQ, Quiz
and Charity Auction raised more than
£8,000 thanks to a boost from Barclays.
Employees of the banking giant are able
to support local communities through
company-sponsored match-fundraising
and volunteering programmes.
To this end, employees not only matchfunded the event to the sum of £4,000
but also donated raffle
prizes and assisted on
the night handing them
out to lucky winners.
The £4,000 target was
quickly reached thanks
to the generosity of
more than 220 charity
supporters who came
together at Walton Hall
Gardens.
“Barclays showed terrific
generosity in doubling
our running total - monies that will be
used to assist us with improving the
quality of life for disabled people and
their families,” said event organiser Dave
Thompson MBE DL, WDP’s Founder and
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Chair.
The quiz tested the grey matter with a
broad range of subjects designed to tax
minds both young and old, whilst the
BBQ served up a delicious assortment of
food which catered to everyone’s taste.
As well as the quiz, stand-up bingo
proved to be hugely popular - and a new
singing sensation was unearthed in WDP
volunteer Kirsty Edwards.
The 20-year-old wowed the crowds with
stunning renditions of the Etta James
classic ‘At Last’ and Ellie Goulding’s take
on
‘Your Song’.
The
charity
auction boasted
some
fantastic
prizes including
a money-can’tbuy tour of
the Houses of
Parliament and
Big Ben, which
was
kindly
arranged and
donated
by
David Mowat MP for Warrington South.
WDP’s Tom Coleridge and John Balshaw
went head to head in a bid to win a prize
to attend a Premier League match next

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