Aspire Celebration Afternoon Tea!

Last Friday, we had our summer celebration at Chester-le-Street Cricket Club. We enjoyed afternoon tea together, won various prizes on the raffle and tombola, competed in a quiz, and played stand-up bingo! It was a lovely afternoon celebrating the work of Aspire over the past year in our local community and thanking our amazing staff, volunteers and funders for their continued support to allow the work of Aspire to continue. We had 64 Aspire women attend the afternoon tea, which created a wonderful atmosphere as we celebrated together. It was a great opportunity for our women to chat and get to know each other, as we had both women who were new to Aspire and those who have been coming along for years, all celebrating together.

The afternoon began with a speech from Val and Colleen, in which they thanked everyone for coming, celebrated Aspire’s achievements over the past year, thanked our staff, volunteers and funders for their support and dedication to Aspire, and shared exciting plans for the future of Aspire!

The delicious afternoon tea, which was provided by the Cricket Club, was definitely the star of the show! There were cheese scones, corned beef pie, cheese and onion quiche, a selection of cold sandwiches, sausage rolls, and fresh cream cakes to follow!

Following our food, the raffle and tombola winners were chosen with some of our women winning prizes such as jewellery, toiletries, candles and chocolate! All of the prizes were kindly donated to Aspire.

We then put our competitive hats on as we competed in a quiz. The quiz was comprised of both general knowledge and a picture round of influential women who have inspired Aspire’s work. We finished the amazing afternoon with stand-up bingo!

It was a lovely afternoon celebrating together with all of our Aspire women!