Queens Part 1

Th last few  weeks had been full of highs and Queens! Its been so busy, two weeks ago was my very first Gala event. We had the Santa breakfast fundraiser in December, but this was the Choosing of the new Gala Queen. I started advertising before Christmas but only in a small way as i felt that pushing it before Christmas would be a waste of time s i know that as parents we are so busy with everything that the message would get lost and forgotten about. So as soon as school went back i tool leaflets to every school for every child, and put posters up everywhere i could think of and then spent night after night plugging it on facebook. It worked because on the night we got 22 Children involved. We had a disco and then the children where asked question by the judges, then the Queen, Princess and Prince Charming were chosen as well as the retinue. I know that the amount of children sounds small after all i dropped leaflets to more than 2500 kids, but normally we are lucky to have 5 people! That night i could barely sleep i felt so excited and proud, as well as relived that it had all gone so well, even the parents seemed to be enjoying themselves and we have another 3 committee members so over 20 now and its going from strength to strength!

We are very lucky that we have a great Dj who comes to all our events and is great with the kids and kept them all entertained whilst the other were being interviewed. We hired the football club to hold it in the same as i had for Mollys birthday, its perfect for an event like this.

Each child gets a number, Molly won't actually be in the new retinue as she is in the current one, but she felt left out so she joined in. Do you like her new party dress? it was a complete bargain that i got from Oxfam for £4.99, she loves dressing up and is a really girly girl.

The night went on for 2 hours and at the end i announced who was our new queen and the current queen presented them with flowers. As its always been so hard to get kids involved we let everyone who attends have a part in it so all the children will be part of the retinue this year. I even go up on the mic to announce everything so am super proud of myself for that. I really great night was had by all and the atmosphere was great, i have started to think of some more fundraisers like this one.