Boscombe Sainsbury’s needs your support!

• Boscombe Sainsbury’s is hosting a silent auction on the night of Red Nose Day at AFC Bournemouth on 18^th March for some brilliant items such as Alton Towers Tickets and a table for four at Rubyz to see an audience with Dame Kitty, as well as money can’t buy prizes such as tea for two and a tour of the House of Commons with Tobias Ellwood, a signed Rastamouse book and even tickets to see Scouting for girls & Chris De Burgh along with a signed copy of his new album! So far our star prize is VIP tickets to the 20-20 cricket final at Edgbaston!
• We expect a huge turn out as we are selling entry tickets for a mere £3 (direct to comic relief) to an evening of drinks and the auction. Tickets are available from customer services in Boscombe store or by contacting the store on (01202) 394682.
• Store hopes to raise over £2000 from the event and every single part has been donated, from the venue, to the lots to the band!
• Photographers are invited to attend the evening and will be admitted free at the door by Vicky Bruce.
• The official Red Nose Day merchandise is on sale at Sainsbury’s and Fitness first, St James School and Seaward Day Nursery have all been selling them on behalf of the store and really getting into the fun and raising lots of money too!
• Sainsbury’s hope to raise over £9 million for this year’s Red Nose Day, which takes place on Friday 18^th March.
• The doors are open from 7pm and the auction tables close at 9pm when a band will take the stage.
• Popular Salisbury based 6 piece band The Intercepteurs have an infectious good humour and play third wave ska with a more traditional 1960’s influence and merge it with modern pop to create a main stream, high energy rhythm that is exciting and made for dancing!
• One of our colleagues, Laura Kitcher, features in Sainsbury’s current advert dressed as a giant fluffy red dice with Jamie Oliver. She is also featured in all of the ‘The more noses you buy the sillier we get’ videos, available at www.sainsburys.co.uk.

Organiser Vicky Bruce who works in Boscombe store said: “This event has gone from an idea over a cup of coffee to a huge fundraising do in less than four weeks; the response has been heartwarming and inspiring with so many people keen to donate their time and services for this brilliant cause”.

The store hopes to as much money as possible from the event. It’s one of several ways in which Sainsbury’s colleagues are raising funds for this year’s campaign. Last Saturday three colleagues (Vicky Bruce, Alice Weldon and Laura Kitcher) spend th entire day sat in the store foyer in a bath of beans, in their pyjamas! Customers enjoyed donating money to throw a tin of cold beans over them! It helped raise over £200.

To date, Sainsbury’s has helped to raise over £48 million for Comic Relief since the partnership began in 1999. This year, the retailer hopes to raise over £9 million for

Red Nose Day.

Locally, Sports forum for the disabled is supported by Comic Relief and operates out of the Littledown Centre. They are dedicated to promoting and developing sporting activities for the disabled and currently host a widely varied range, running the full twelve months of the year