This year, Brothers of Charity Services in Merseyside held their annual Christmas Party at the Devonshire House Hotel on the 8th December.
The event began for many with a trip in a limousine, arriving in style at the hotel! After everyone was seated in the beautifully decorated function room, the awards presentation started.
Darron Orme, the Head of Services Liverpool, and Sue Quayle, the Regional Director of Care, presented the winners with their awards as well as gift bags full of goodies. The awards were won by;
Client Awards
Patrick Boylan – Smile Award
Sarah Curtin – Outstanding Community Volunteer Award
Colin Gill – Unsung Hero Award
David Hilton – Outstanding Achievement Award
Anthony Kanue – Outstanding Achievement Award
Paul McKim – Outstanding Community Volunteer Award
Michael Owen – Unsung Hero Award
Susan Wilde – Outstanding Achievement Award
Support Team Awards
Higher Road / New Hutte Lane – Client Care Award
Thorntree Close / Priory Farm Close – Outstanding Team of the Year Award
Support Worker Awards
Sophie Hughes – Outstanding Initiative Award
Tracey Corns – Client Care Award
Linda Taylor – Extra Mile Award
Senior Manager Awards
Jayne Mahon Acting Team Leader – Outstanding Leadership Award
Anthony Bolger Lead Support Worker – Unsung Hero Award
Ruth Dunn Lead Support Worker – Extra Mile Award
Special Acknowledgement
Jennie Smith – Extra Mile Award given for making sure the Christmas Party was as amazing as it could be!
After the awards presentation, it was time for a delicious three course festive meal! Everyone enjoyed their meals while having a good chat with their friends.
Once the meal was over, it was time to get the party started! They were joined by Chris O’Connell, a local singer, and the DJ for the night was Joey Currie. Lots of people had a great time on the dance floor, showing of their best moves to all the Christmas hits! The Party couldn’t have got any better, but then Father Christmas, his elf and snowman friend paid everyone a surprise visit and handed out presents.
The annual Christmas Party was a huge success and it would not have been possible without the help of the following people;
Raffle
Thank you to everyone who collected raffle prizes:
Jennie Smith
Jayne Mahon
Christine Kinsey
Sue Foulkes
Jean Duffy
Thank you to Jayne and Jennie who visited many shops in their own time to ask for donations and for collected them at a later date.
A huge thank you goes to Jennie Smith for the time and hard work spent in arranging and organising the raffle itself.
Christmas Boxes
Thank you to Darren Orme, Paul McKim and Georgina Jarrold for putting the Christmas Boxes together.
Georgina also wrote out Christmas cards to all the people we support and gathered the letters from Santa to include in the box.
Darren Orme made sure all the Christmas boxes were delivered to the venue the night before!
Decorating the venue
Jennie Smith and Lynn Smith beautifully dressed the tables the evening before the party. They personally purchased, produced and donated all of the materials used for the event. The dressing of the 32 tables consisted of name place cards, table name cards, order of events, menu, invites, tickets, envelopes for the tickets, flowers and confetti. Such an amazing effort went in to the decoration and we would like to say a massive thank you to Jennie and Lynn for their dedication to making the venue look fantastic!
Additional Thank Yous
Thank you to Paul Jones, Ann Hudson, Hiral Shah, Simone Walter, Sue Foulkes, Christine Kinsey, Colin O’Brien, Michael Birchall, Jennie Smith, Joanna Berrington, Georgina Jarrold, Paula Prescott, Katie Cringle, Julie Riding and Lee McClure who took the lead on each table, helping out on the day and ensuring each individual enjoyed themselves, as well as Mark Doyle for dressing up as a Snow man, Kevin Lawless for dressing up as Santa and Matthew Ball for dressing up as an Elf. Thank you to the Marketing Team for your help in taking photographs at the event.
Photographs from the event are on display on the screen at Thingwall Hall Reception.