It’s time to thank all those who supported our Open Day on Sunday. It was a fantastic event, full of energy with good food and drink, great music and daft entertainment.
We hope we haven’t missed anyone – please let us know if we have!
🙏 To every crew volunteer, their partners and families for dedicating an entire weekend. We are a brilliantly strong team.
🙏 To our stallholders: Roger Daniels, Lucy Hogg, Mr & Mrs Wiggins, Mo Senior, Catherine Wall, Sheila, Peter Coleman, Jeanna Grieves, Rosemary Osborne, Rosemary Joy, Susan Goodwin, Julie Redpath Johns, Jane Gould and @thefunkyhen.
🙏 To those who donated stock for our bar: Greene King Brewery, @longmanbrewery, @battlebrewery1066, Ascension Cider, @twosawyerspett and The Cove in Fairlight.
🙏 To Sarah Whiteman The Old Butcher’s Shop – Pett for her always fabulous burgers and sausages.
🙏 To those who entertained us with great music: Matty’s Monday Club, Soul Town and our very own @The Pett Slip Buoys.
🙏 To the awesome Tony Fuller who completed his cycle challenge and raised almost £800.
🙏 To the many people and businesses who helped make Open Day happen: Our great supporters @@royaloakrobin and @beckie phillips, Rye Town Crier, @goringpaul, Louise Homewood, Pauline Kirk and Dean Finnigan for a fantastic dog show, Fairlight Village Hall for the loan of the tables, our wonderful friend Ita @eaters_pett, Riddlecourt and Martello for the use of their car parks, @HM Coastguard Rye Bay, @strandliners, Meridien toilet hire, @chawky82 for the generous donation from the stone painting and to our neighbours at Coastguard Cottages for allowing us to take over their parking spaces.
🙏 To everyone who donated a raffle prize: Chapel Down, @gunbrewery, @helenadollimore1066, @this.is.dawn, Caroline Still, Zana Duthie, Paul Kirkham, David Dunlop, Katrina Julian and Kevin Nuttall.
Plus everyone who baked a cake, donated a bottle for the tombola – and the hundreds of people who came down to support us.
THANK YOU. See you next year!
Photo credits: Paul Goring, Fiona Johnson, Nick Wise and Helena Dollimore
