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SPARA dinners raise funds for good causes
2015
Our first charity dinner at the Spice Lodge in April 2015. We raised £1,388 (split 50/50 between the appeal for Pip and Jim’s roof and the Kambia Appeal). There were 60 guests. 

2016 ​We held a fund raising dinner at the Spice Lodge on Monday 4 April 2016. We raised nearly £570 for two good causes - Save the Children and the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust. We enjoyed an excellent meal and were entertained by a talk from Kevan Blackadder about the improvements being made - and planned - for the centre of Cheltenham. Thanks to Tim Harman once again for setting this up, to Mohamed and his staff for the food, and to our generous donors! 
PictureClair Chilvers (SPJARA chair), Mohamed from Spice Lodge, Maxine Melling and Cllr Tim Harman
2017
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Our annual fund raising dinner - 6 March 2017 - was a great success. 41 of us enjoyed an Indian banquet at the Spice Lodge on 6 March. We heard from Kate Green of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Hospitals Charity and Adele Owen of GARAS - the Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Our guest speaker was Maxine Melling, the chair of the Cheltenham Civic Society, who urged us to engage with the council's initiative on a "place strategy" for Cheltenham.

We raised £882 from a raffle, an auction and the sale of dinner tickets to be shared between the hospital charity and GARAS.

​Thanks to several people who made the evening possible but especially to Cllr Tim Harman, who helped plan the event as he has done in previous years. Thanks too to our brilliant speakers and thanks also to our generous guests who supported two good causes - and we hope enjoyed  themselves.

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