Report from the Annual General Meeting, Wednesday 4th October 2023
Thrilling Night at the Gateway Summer Ball with DJ Paul Nixon
Whilst another great night was had down at our local, The Steeplechase, catching a quick game of dominoes or cards with our members, the excitement for this week’s thrilling night at the Summer Ball was tangible.
Indeed, the Summer Ball and Disco was an opportunity to celebrate summer! Okay, maybe the sun has been a little absent from our skies compared to last year but that certainly didn’t stop our members from being rays of sunshine at Wilfred House on Tuesday evening.
The music was resonating from the speakers thanks to our resident DJ Paul Nixon, soon toes were tapping and fingers drumming and before you knew it members were on the floor dancing the evening away. Sue, Fay and Pauline knew all the moves and joined in the fun. The volunteers were not to be left out and soon there was laughter and happiness in abundance, who needs sunshine when we have friends to share our time with!
Talking of a week or so we hope to see you at The Uttoxeter Lions ‘Lark in the Park’ on Saturday 26th August starting at 1.00pm. We will be there so why not drop by and check out the wonderful array of goodies in our wheelbarrow raffle and better still buy a ticket or two! Other surprises on our stand are worth a visit too and of course smiles in abundance, afterall we are Uttoxeter Gateway Club.
Until next time…
Wonderful donation of £3221.50
This week was our Bowling Week which started off with the usual gusto and a fabulous attendance, this activity is clearly a favourite of a lot of our members. There were a few hiccups encountered but nothing our trusty staff weren’t able to resolve 😊
But the best news this week has to be the successful sharing of the NFU Mutual Giving Fund 2023. NFU Mutual posted a Facebook request for nominations for a local worthy cause.
“NFU Mutual has allocated a £1.92m national fund to support local frontline charities, NFU Mutual’s Agency Giving Fund.”
“To ensure that this fund is distributed across the UK, NFU Mutual has invited our agency to nominate a local charity to receive an equal share of this fund, a donation of £3,221.50.
We are very grateful for the wonderful work your charity is undertaking to support our community. So, our agency would like to put forward Uttoxeter Gateway Club to NFU Mutual to receive these funds.”
I was thrilled to read this email and swiftly responded. I am delighted to say we have safely received this wonderful donation of £3221.50. So many thanks to NFU Mutual, specifically Rosie at the Uttoxeter Branch of NFU Mutual, who persevered despite a few contacting issues (now ironed out).
But also thanks to you, our Facebook followers out there, who saw the link, shared it and most importantly named Uttoxeter Gateway Club.
We are delighted to have this boost to our funds and we are hoping to utilise the money for our members benefit very soon.
Read more about the NFU Mutual Agency Giving Fund here..
Until next time…
This week we met at The Steeple Chase on The Market Place for a drink and pub games.
The night out at the Steeplechase was indeed a good night out.
Sometimes the chance to stand around a pool table and pot a few balls is all that is needed to help let the stresses of the day melt away. Shuffling a few dominos (not the pizza variety from across the road from the Pub but tablets of wood with dots on!) is absolutely the order of the day and about as strenuous as I could manage! A nice long drink and a catch up with friends, whilst keeping half an eye on the intense game of drafts on the neighbouring table.
Our night out ‘down the pub’ a delightful evening indeed. I say cheers Gateway team for a another enjoyable evening.
Until next time…
Bowling at Cinebowl, Uttoxeter
Another fun night at Club this week!
House of Games was the theme, and the evening certainly stretched the brain cells and taste buds. Our members were divided into three teams, with each team seated around a table. A team captain was chosen to present their answers to the the Club Leaders. The evenings game was in the form of a Quiz Night.
Sue kicked off with a general knowledge round. Each team given three possible answers, answer A, answer B or answer C. It was really good to see the members conferring with each other before their team captain gave their answers.
The Challenging Picture Round!
Next round was certainly a challenge and there were some rather interesting faces being pulled as the members were give a series of savoury snack to taste by Di, their challenge to decide what flavour it was meant to be? The first one was suppose to be Chilli, however, I concluded the nearest that snack had been Chilli was if it sat in the fridge! The last was very strong and a flavour that certainly was hanging around in the mouth providing the perfect opportunity to take a break for tuck shop break. I can’t help but get the feeling Tuck Shop was very popular as an orderly queue was quickly formed in front of Di as she served everyone.
Drink and snack purchased it was back to the game, further rounds consisted of guessing the numbers of items in jars. The jars were lined up on the table and no one was allowed to touch them. Members had to give their best estimate. From the number of £2.00 coins in one jar, to the number of discs that were not blue in another jar (There were a lot of blue discs), to name two examples.
There was a picture round too. The pictures were challenging and I definitely thought one looked like the eye of a crocodile but apparently it was a toad! Well having never been eyeballed by either, how was I to know?
Another evening of fun and conversation with friends was enjoyed and everyone went off for the Easter Break to return on the 11th April for Easter Bingo.
Happy Easter everyone!
