WATLERSTOCK 2008 - Part 5!
The Summer Fete & Fundraiser
Friday 15th, Saturday 16th, Sunday 17th of August
Review of the Event
Friday evening came with
Greg & Poddy spinning the music to create a terrific party until the hour of
4am, with money being raised during the long party evening through a raffle.
On Saturday morning at
9am it was time for the bleary eyed to start work in the car park setting up
the lorry as a stage erecting stalls, testing the scalextric!! Etc. The day
started to get busy around 11am with good support from locals and
surrounding clubs, scooters numbering 150 or more. The DJ’s were now
supported by Tony 1 Shirt with 2 excellent sets being played by Circa & Sons
of El’ Rocha many thanks to both bands for their fantastic support.
The sponsored runners
started to arrive back at the Dev with the princely sum of £1500 or so, they
were all given a welcome glass of orange juice as they rejoined the party.
With the auction, conducted by Bob Bulloch, custom show and other activities
continuing through the rest of the afternoon proceedings at the Dev were
finally wound up at 6pm to move to the Village Hall for the evening do.
On arrival at the
village hall with the disco equipment we found DC Fontana already busy
setting up there amazing array of equipment. Steve and Ian had the difficult
job of manning the door to the endless stream of ticket holders slowly but
surely filling the venue. What ensued was the best ever night conducted by
Spiral SC, the highlight being the brilliant DC Fontana playing their
terrific 90 minute set, the place was rocking, thanks guys. When 12’oclock
came around people were left begging for more music but it was Dev time
again until the early hours of Sunday morning.
When a count of the
money was concluded the sum of £3648 was written on the cheque to be
delivered to Ashgate Hospice by an impressive convoy of 70 odd scooters
slowly leaving the Dev car-park at midday. After presenting the jaw-dropping
amount to Joe Edwards at the Hospice in sharp shower of rain it was time to
sprint back to the Dev for free food during a wind down afternoon, the last
scooter finally leaving the pub car-park at 4pm.
Our only problem after
an awe inspiring weekend is how to top this Watlerstock but I’m sure we will
be trying to when, BEFORE YOU KNOW IT ITS AUGUST AGAIN!
Thanks to all Spiral SC
members including the girls on the stall and not forgetting Albert and
Margaret behind the bar for their unbelievable work and support towards the
event without which Watlerstock would not be possible. And also a massive
thanks to the surrounding scooterists & local people for the continued
backing.
It’s August and before
you know it and it’s time for Watlerstock!
After four previous successful events the sum total raised for cancer
charity was just short of £10,000, so it was time to smash that barrier this
year with the help of a scalextric track and very importantly a 5k sponsored
jog to the Dev both the inspiration of Pete Newbold. Also at this point a special mention must go to Mick Gill for all his continued hard work for these events.
Cheers,
Paul Beckett
Spiral SC