St Albans Soroptimists help every year with the Home-Start Herts annual Pancake Race in St Albans. The charity does amazing work supporting vulnerable families who are struggling and in need of help.
The annual event receives a lot of publicity and is great for St Albans and the community – see the item in the Herts Advertiser www.hertsad.co.uk/news/23344563.st-albans-pancake-race-raises-4-4k-home-start-herts
A couple of weeks ahead of the event Soroptimists Barbara Saunders and Gill Clegg did a great job on a very wet Saturday drumming up support from the local businesses in the Hollywell Hill area.
On the day itself 5 Soroptimists were there to help. Sarah Lichman and Jane Slatter sold raffle tickets (seen pictured here withe Hope the Hippo – the Home-Start mascot). Debbie Tankard, Bev Keech and Kat Clark were needed as marshalls helping with managing the event.
Please see the messages below that show how much Soroptimists’ support is appreciated.
Liz Le Coze, Home-Start Herts Strategic Manager sent her thanks to all the Soroptimists who helped. She said:
“Firstly, I wanted to let Barbara and Gill know that thanks to your flyer delivery we have picked up more teams – new teams who haven’t entered before – and an extra sponsor from a company based on Holywell Hill which is an area you covered. Thank you so much for your efforts that contributed towards this! I am sure that spreading the word through personally delivering the leaflets will also encourage people to attend on the day too.”
“Thank you so much for all your help on Tuesday at the St Albans Pancake Festival. You were all fabulous and definitely helped contribute towards the success of the event! We have had some great feedback about the day and overall we raised a fantastic £4,400 which is more than we expected. The raffle proved very popular and I am sure this is down to the super raffle ticket sellers that we had – thank you so much! All funds raised will go towards supporting vulnerable families who are struggling and in need of help.”
“Thank you again for all your time and effort, we really value the support of the Soroptimists.”