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Celebrating the ball

Colin Campbell
by Colin Campbell on 26/11/18 18:00

TCC Ball

On the 17th November The Campbell Clinic hosted its fifth annual fancy dress charity ball at The Crowne Plaza in Nottingham.

So because it’s my ball I get to choose the rules. Because it’s my microphone I get to stand up and sing. So I get to humble brag about what we did and what we’ve done.

The Campbell Clinic and The Campbell Academy is set up to donate 1% of its turnover to Social Legacy Projects (that we have had assistance in managing by Mark Topley of late)

For this reason, we are able to set the ball up in quite a particular way to make as much money as possible and it’s worth an explanation here for those who were at it and those who will come next year (we hope)

People pay £45 per ticket but we buy their ticket (at least the cost price of the ticket) so by the time people pay for their ticket, we have already paid for it so the full £45 goes straight into the charity pot. It means that we can use money from our Social Legacy Project to make more money which is pure magic!

People then come to the ball (it’s compulsory fancy dress) we realise that excludes some people who don’t like fancy dress but it makes for the most extraordinary evening because there’s no get out and everyone has to make an effort.

My friend Stuart Reekie (the photographer boy) once again pulled off an astonishing outfit with his Alice Cooper. My friend John from Scotland arrived as Ozzy Osbourne with his wife Laura in tow as Sharon.

My accountant Steve Martin was a very sinister (and quite attractive) Freddie Mercury from ‘I want to break free’ – there were a few of those. There were at least four Ed Sheeran’s (I was one of those) at least four Amy Winehouse’s (my wife Alison was one of those) There was Britney Spears, several Geri Halliwell’s (my daughter was one of those) and lots of Freddie Mercury’s – the theme was Pop Icons.

We had a big raffle, a silent auction and a game of heads and tails (that’s one of the best parts of the night) We played charity blackjack and had photographs.

At the end of the night Hayley handed me a bit of paper that said ‘£9,930’!!

We can just about manage to scrape together the other £70 to make it £10k!

We had done £10k every time in the last five years, so you can do the maths yourself.

One of the beneficiaries is Bridge2Aid and had been since the outset. They don’t get all the money but just to give you a bit of perspective about what the people who came to the ball achieved, I’ll tell you this story.

It costs £3,000 to fund a unity partner through the Bridge2aid programme.

On average a unity partner looks after the emergency dental care of £10,000 people in Tanzania.

There are nearly 17 unity partners in the £50,000 number we have raised from the ball. That alone is 170,000 people in East Africa who get emergency dental care.

So here is the punchline…

It’s Halloween for the ball next year and it’s on the 2ndNovember.

Hayley’s email address is: hayleyedwards@campbell-clinic.co.uk

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Blog Post Number: 1837

 

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