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What a delightful event. Bawburgh have a very nice Village hall and it was packed to the gunnels for the Quiz night on February 23^rd. Rupert and Carolyn (both Volunteers at PBL) had done an amazing job in selling all the tables and more and in setting it all out so prettily ( thank you Carolyn) I recognised genius when i see it   It was so welcoming when we arrived. There was a merry band of ladies on reception selling tickets and making sure we all had our raffle tickets for very delightful prizes, and telling us about the wonderful monkeys which were to be auctioned later on. Everyone really enjoyed the evening and picked out Rupert, who was our compere, for special praise. He  kept up the pace of the evening and also kept everyone  alert, amused and delighted to spend their money, throwing quips and sometimes little packets of Maltesers as extra prizes for answering little quizzy questions!! The score was kept by David Goodman who is part of the Bawburgh Village Hall Committee and kept us in good order. The evening  made a wonderful amount and the Support Group is truly grateful. It was a wonderful evening  – dare we hope for a repeat next year!! The amount  raised reflects the calibre of the event and those who organised it.

Alexandra Kerridge, landlady of the Beehive Pub in Leopold Road, Norwich, and her wonderful clients, have done some wonderful fundraising for the PBL Support Group. They held a Christmas draw and raised a wonderful £250.00.  A huge thank you to everyone.

Please have a read of our Autumn newsletter by clicking here.

 

Our AGM was held on the 31st May.

This year the committee decided to split the Lady Bacon Award for outstanding service to Specialist Palliative Care between two outstanding individuals. Lady Bacon was at the meeting to give out the awards to Christine Hawkins who has been the Modern Matron for PBL for the last ten years, and Roisin Fallon Williams CEO of the NHS Community trust, both whom have been more than supportive of Palliative Care in Norfolk and the plans for the new Hospice.

Dr Phil Wilkins, Palliative Care Consultant, gave a very interesting summing up of the activity at PBL over the past year.

Our speaker followed after a short break . We were so fortunate to have Dr Tom Roques, Consultant Clinical Oncologist and Clinical Lead for Radiotherapy Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of East Anglia, who gave a fascinating talk about advances and trends in treatments for cancer .

But, as usual, maybe the highlight of the evening was catching up with friends and colleagues. There certainly was a happy buzz about the evening.

May 12th was a very happy occasion for everyone who came to the PBL FEST which was organised by our very own dear  Ruth Donnerly –Bond , Laura Castle and many many  of her friends,  some of whom performed brilliantly  during the day.

Staff and Volunteers made cakes and collected and labelled prizes for the Tombola. They also manned the stalls which were most successful.

 

 

 

 

In June our wonderful volunteers again did sterling service at the Bear shop in Elm Hill. Robert opened his beautiful garden for the National Garden Scheme and we did the teas and cakes for those who visited.. Robert , once again, generously  gave us several items to raffle including a lovely bear the weather was glorious and we all had a great time.  A big thank you goes to Robert and all his staff, and Pam, Rita, Rachel, Andy and Sylvia, Ruth, Bev, Gill, Sylvia P , Jan, Pat and all those who made cakes including Lynn’s lovely Almond Slices.

 

 

 

Click here to read the Autumn 2017 Newsletter.

The ‘Bear Shop Girls’ (Pam, Teresa, Gill, Pat, Carolyn, Lynn, Jan, Ruth, Sylvia A and Sylvia S including our two special chaps – Andy and Olly – all PBL Volunteers) had another successful time serving Teas and homemade cakes at the Bear Shop in Elm Hill for the four Norwich Heritage Days.

Robert, who owns the shop and the beautiful garden, once again generously gave us two beautiful bears to raffle. The garden is so lovely that this year we have photographed some of the flowers that were in bloom – do come and see them next year as Robert will open it again for The National Garden Scheme days at the end of June and again for the Heritage days in September 2018. The garden has many wonderful plants but the fuchsia’s are outstanding.

We did have a couple of very wet days but the sun shone for quite some time and we were really happy to have made £622.00. Thank you to our wonderful Volunteers and to everyone who came to the garden and mostly to Robert, who amazingly, let us use his own kitchen to ‘mess around and make tea ‘ in!!