Christmas Street Collection - Eldon Square
Mon, Dec 10th 2012 at 12:00 pm- Thu, Dec 13th 2012 - 3:00 pm
We held our annual Charity Street Collection in Eldon Square Shopping Centre between the hours of 12 noon and 2pm on four days in the run-up to Christmas.
Each year for as long as current members of the Club can remember, we have held a Charity Street Collection in the city centre to raise funds for a worthy cause, selected by the President of the year.
President Linda nominated the RVI's "Tiny Lives" Campaign as the charity to receive the proceeds of this year's collection. Eldon Square Shopping Centre allocated two hours around lunchtime on each of the four days and the following choirs and bands sang and played in support-
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Silver Ukulele Band |
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Northern Counties School |
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Silver Woodwind Band |
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Percy Hedley School |
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Maria & Streetwise Opera |
| Walbottle Campus |
We would like to express our grateful thanks to the generosity of the public who supported the collection resulting in a total of nearly
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