Here is a round up of what the Fundraising team (and others!) have been up to over the last couple of months: 

Image Description: Kelly from Beach Social Club, Sara from CamSight, Adrian from the Military Museum, and Billy the Chair of Waterbeach Social Club are pictured, with Sara and Adrian having just been presented with a cheque for £2,000 each. 

Image Description: A group of school children are at their school assembly, listening and watching Ella and Tahmina's presentation about CamSight. 

Image Description: Community Fundraiser Ella stands under the CamSight gazebo, all set up for the event. The table in front of her has a variety of fundraising items and merchandise, and is covered in a branded CamSight tablecloth. 

Image Description: Our lovely Ella picking up some of the coloured wool from the shop in Cambridge. She has blonde tied-back hair and is smiling as she holds up the bag of yarn!

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We had a busy first half of 2024:

Fetes and Feasts!

In June we hosted stands at the Chesterton Festival, and the Waterbeach Feast. Both were lovely sunny days and our team were kept busy talking about what we do - and blowing lots of bubbles from our ever-popular bubble wands! Fetes are great ways for us to connect with our community, thank you all who helped make it happen, and everyone who came to say hi!

Image Description: Two CamSight representatives stand in branded clothing under a purple gazebo. To the left of the picture is a CamSight banner, and in the middle is a table with CamSight produce on it. On the gazebo is a sign reading "P is for pirate" relating to the theme of the event being attended.

Tesco funding:

A big thank you to the Tesco community in March as their community bookstall recently raised £350 for CamSight. Sara went along to collect the cheque from Kelly, the March Hostmoor Avenue Community Champion, in June. Tesco also pledged £2,500 in January as part of the March and Wisbech blue token schemes, so with just under £3,000 recently received from Tesco we want to say a big thank you to everyone in the March and Wisbech areas! 


Image description: Two women, Kelly and Sara, are holding a large cheque made out to Camsight for £350 between them, and smiling at the camera. Behind them is a wall with the writing "communities and planet a" as part of a larger message that is partially obscured.

A musical extravaganza:

On the 22nd June the Mawson Road Community Orchestra held a summer Concert to raise funds and awareness for CamSight, playing music from Gounod, Bizet, Tchaikovsky and Mozart. Becky, our Head of Operations, went along to thank MRCO Chair Anna, and the assembled orchestra and guests, on the night. A wonderful £600 was raised on the night with an additional £100 kindly donated by the orchestra themselves, donating £700 overall. Thank you all.

Bands, Bingo and Quizzes:

The Waterbeach community, pioneered by service user Josh and his family, have been supporting CamSight and Waterbeach Military Heritage Museum as their two Charities Of The Year. In July the New Fools band played a charity gig at the Beach Social Club, who have also held a bingo night in April, and a quiz in June too! Thanks so much Josh and everyone who has supported one of these events, you're really making a difference. 

And the 2024 Cambridge Half Marathon earlier this year:

Let's not forget the amazing team of runners who ran the Cambs Half Marathon on the 3rd March this year: 9 were members of local restaurant chain Cambscuisine, and of course John who ran his first ever half marathon at the age of 73, ran on our behalf raising £4,017!

Keep checking our news and events section on our website to stay up to date with where we are and what we're doing. You can also follow us on social media, linked at the bottom of this page.

Image Banner Description: Two ladies, Sam and Kelly, are standing in Tesco supermarket looking at the camera and smiling. They are holding a large cheque which reads Tesco Community Grants across the top. The rest of the cheque is obscured but it was made out to CamSight and is for £1,500.