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170 people in a tepee raise over £6,000 for two local churches

Date:
Fri 17th October 2014

A large tepee complete with log burning fires was the venue for a major fund raising event on Sunday 5 October. Two small local churches; St. Leonards, Farlington and St. Lawrence, Flaxton joined together to host an evening of food and festivities for 170 supporters.

Guests were treated to a four course dinner featuring local produce cooked by a hard working team of volunteers who served the food at the tables. Between courses Flaxton village choir sang a medley of songs, ending with all the diners joining in lustily with The Hippopotamus Song.

'It was a wonderful atmosphere in the tepee' enthused the organiser Margaret Singleton, everyone was so generous, and we were delighted to welcome our new Bishop of Selby, Rt Revd John Thomson with his wife Susan, as well as our MP Anne McIntosh'.

An auction of gifts including a Lakeland painting by Judy Fisk, a day’s shooting, and a family ticket for North Yorkshire Moors Railway was conducted by Philip Place and raised almost £2,000 ‐ as well as quite a few laughs! Before leaving guests were treated to a firework display in the moonlight.

'We are desperately in need of money to keep our rural churches open' explained Margaret, who is Churchwarden at Farlington, 'at our church we need to install new heating and lighting’. We couldn't have raised this money without the generous offer of the tepee that had been used the previous day for the wedding reception of Lucy and James Knock, the hard work of many volunteers in cooking and serving food, and all who donated to the auction and raffle.'