Recipe for fundraising (From Gazette Series)

Recipe for fundraising

FUND-RAISING continues in Wotton-under-Edge and surrounding areas for two different causes.

Renishaw employee Norma Tang, and her friend Karen Wood, are raising money for Scope, the charity for people with cerebral palsy.

The pair, who will be participating in a sponsored skiing event in the New Year, have produced a book called Favourite Recipes from Around the World to support this venture.

It contains 127 recipes from nine different countries, including a few from restaurants and hotels and three from celebrities.

Novelist Penny Vincenzi sent a cheat's chicken casserole, chef Delia Smith sent a preserved ginger cake with lemon icing and animateur Nick Parks sent Lancashire cheese scones.

Norma Tang said: "Nick Parks was really generous - not only did he send the recipe but also a signed cartoon which we have been able to use in the book."

The recipe book is available from Wotton Travel, Relish and the Cotswold Book Room, in Wotton-under-Edge, and from Gimbys Books in Chipping Sodbury.

A total of 220 copies have already been sold through school fetes, including at Rose Hill School in Alderley, and this success is likely to lead to reprinting.

The other fund-raising project Ms Tang is involved with is also linked with Renishaw plc.

She is helping to raise money for a colleague at the company who is severely disabled following an accident last summer.

A concert will be held on Saturday, August 21 (7.30pm) at Katharine Lady Berkeley's School featuring Dursley Male Voice Choir, with guest performances from a cornet player and a soprano who live locally. Tickets will be available on the door with an interval drink included.

This is the second fund-raising event organised for Gary Kemery. Earlier this year, the finance department at Renishaw, where Gary works, organised a five-mile Challenge.

The aim was for Renishaw colleagues across the company to join together in walking, running, biking or whatever mode of non-motorised movement they wished on a five-mile round trip from Wotton to North Nibley and back.

Norma Tang said: "The event was amazingly successful, due to the support of more than 60 people who took part and those who sponsored them.

"We raised more than £6,000, including contributions from Renishaw companies worldwide. Gary had visited a number of subsidiaries assisting in the implementation of new IT systems."

The funds were used to provide Gary with a motorised buggy which allows him to get out and about where a wheelchair is not so appropriate, a hospital-type bed that could be placed upstairs in his house and a stair lift.