Balaia Bowls Club Fund Raising Events

Fundraising 2024

Our fundraising efforts this year have been somewhat stymied by the enforced move to Valverde. We have until recently been unable to hold any fundraising events. However, we are now able to do some shopping for the Albufeira food bank as we did last year. This will be during November. A report will follow!

Christmas raffle 22nd December 2023

A raffle held at our Christmas lunch on 22nd December raised the splendid sum of €210 for the Food Bank. Thanks to all who donated prizes.

Support for Albufeira Food Bank 2023 - part two

On December 4th we went shopping with the proceeds from the past few months of fund raising events, fines, swearboxes and donations. A total of €399.19 was spent on items useful for the food bank in general. After discussion with the organisers, a further €202.59 was spent on Christmas items including small gifts for the children on their books.

Remembrance Day Charity Event 12th November 2023

Our Remembrance Sunday Charity fun bowling event on Sunday 12th November raised a total of €248,55 which will go towards the big Christmas shop for the food bank, coming soon.

Support for Albufeira Food Bank 2023

Thanks to our continued efforts in sending down a wrong bias and the resulting cursing thereof and other misdeeds, plus proceeds and donations at the Christmas Dinner raffle, the club has made a purchases of almost €850 of necessary items for the Albufeira Food Bank. Alan Camplin-Smith sent these pictures of the well-laden trolley at Recheio on the first visit. Items included chicken, sausages, cooking oil, long life milk, tuna, sardines, sugar, flour, toiletries and cleaning products. Many thanks to all and keep on sending down those wrong biases! As of 1st November 2023, the total raised under this heading is €1422.74 with the remaining funds to be used before the club's financial year ends on 31st March 2024.

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Donation to Ukranian refugee relief

We have donated €1,010.70 to the official Portuguese fund for Ukranian war relief. This came about from various activities during the latter part of the year, including individual donations, raffles at various events and fines for wrong bias etc!

Final donation to A Gaivota December 2022

We are pleased to show members those items purchased for the children's home A Gaivota a few weeks ago. A change of management did cause a bit of a wait, but the funds we were holding were used to purchase the items pictured below.
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In 2018 €1,000 was raised for the Bombeiros (local fire brigade) through a mixture of fund raisers, donations and fines.
They used this to purchase laptops and GPS tracker equipment.

The major event in 2019 was held to the children's home and orphanage 'A Gaivota' here in Albufeira.
The event raised €1,192.3! Some pictures here

Sadly, all fund raising events planned for 2020 and most for 2021 had to be cancelled.

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