The Oxfam One World Fair

One for your diaries: the Gatehouse will be at the Oxfam One World Fair with a stall. Come and say hello if you're in Oxford on that day:

Details:

Saturday 19 November – 10am to 4.30pm
50 stalls, vegetarian cafe and live music
50p entrance, children free.
Oxford Town Hall

See you there!

Update from the Moving Home concert

An update from our Fundraising Manager Catherine House concerning the Moving House Appeal Concert that took place on Saturday:

The Gatehouse Appeal Orchestra stunned us all with their amazing music on Saturday. 

The soloist Craig Greene was brilliant on the piano and brought the Mozart Piano Concerto to life in the beautiful setting of St Peter's College Chapel in Oxford. Thank you to Andrew Gray, conductor and organiser, and all the musicians who took part. We're pleased to say that the concert raised over £1049 for the Gatehouse Moving Home Appeal.  

Thank you also to all the people who supported the event by publicising it, coming on the evening and by helping out.  Henmans LLP and Oxford Print Centre both contributed to the event - thank you for your sponsorship.

Here are some photos of the event:

Catherine witih Andrew Gray, the concert organiser and conductor.

Thanks to the studenst at Queen's college

Queen's College, Oxford have raised over £250 for the Gatehouse Moving Home appeal through a dinner and sale of Charity cocktails in the college bar! Thanks guys!

Diarise the 9th December

Keep this date free: Friday December 9th at St Michael's Church in Oxford. The Gatehouse Benefit Gig in the support of the Moving Home appeal is on, on, on! With mystery guests ... more to follow! Thanks.

Up to 75%... and counting

If you have been following Sandwich Steve (which you can find on the link to the right of the page), you may be wondering if we've made a mistake on the figures.  

 

Well, we haven't! This week we celebrated our 75% Moving Home appeal milestone, thanks to a very substantial donation.  

 

So this is just to say thank you to everyone who has given to the appeal and helped us to get to this point.

 

What next? We have just under £40,000 to go. It is tempting to relax but wouldn't it be great if we could raise all the money and reach our target by Christmas? We have a lot happening over the next few weeks with various events which you are involved in: check out the concert tomorrow, for example. 

 

Thanks for all that you do for the Gatehouse: and let's keep going!

Final reminder: the Gatehouse Concert is this weekend!

Just a final reminder about the Gatehouse concert this weekend. 

In summary, the details are as follows:

WHAT?

The Gatehouse Appeal Orchestra

Mozart Piano Concerto No.23
Schubert Symphony No.5
Soloist: Craig Greene

Conductor: Andrew Gray 

WHERE?

St Peter's College Chapel

New Inn Hall Street

Oxford

 
WHEN?

Saturday 12th November (5th Week)
7:30pm

FREE admission, with a retiring collection towards the Gatehouse Charity

And do check out our Facebook page for the event and RSVP there if you're coming! Thanks.

Thanks to Eynsham baptist church

A big thank you to our friends at Eynsham baptist church. 

They took a special collection in order to sponsor our walk from Eynsham to Oxford. 

Thank you to all those who donated and raised £270 for the Moving Home appeal.

The Gatehouse of the Future ...

A big thank-you to the children, teachers and parents of Madley Book School in Witney for raising £95 for the Moving Home appeal - as well as bags of food and toiletries. It was great to have some of the children come into the Gatehouse to find out more - hopefully, they'll be volunteers and helpers of the future!

 

They've put a couple of great photos on their website: just click here to see them.