Our highly successful Summer Fundraising Party and Raffle on Friday 27 June began with live music from Evelyn Cornell and Brian McHenry’s fascinating tour-talk of St Augustine’s. Then followed a plentiful and delicious meal for our 75+ guests, lively snippets of two Aphra Behn plays performed by the Canterbury Shakespeare Festival players, and the lord mayor-drawn raffle of 19 glittering prizes. All in all, a five-star evening that raised considerable funds for our basket of exciting projects. Thank you everyone, sponsors, guests, St Augustine’s Abbey (especially Juliette), and the hard-working CCS trustees.

Raffle results: We had 19 raffle prizes. 24 people bought tickets online. These entries were converted to paper tickets and entered in the draw. 7 of the online purchasers won a prize, 1 won 2! (These are their winning tickets: blue & white 341, 343, 371, blue 649, 682, white 356, yellow and white 983, 992. Photo on Facebook.) Of these 7 winners, 4 came to the party and took their prizes with them. The 3 who were not present have been contacted.