President of the Trust Eric Wood welcomed visitors to his Whittington home for an Easter Saturday Coffee Morning after a two-year break caused by Covid restrictions.
Eric and Doreen Wood's annual fund-raiser for the Trust was last held in 2019,
and this year's event was blessed with beautiful sunshine on the hottest day of
the year so far.
The sale of barbecue meals, cakes, bric-a-brac, souvenirs and plants raised slightly over £2,000 for Trust funds, a "best-ever result". Just as important perhaps, many comments were received from visitors of what a great day out is was.
LHCRT communications director and events co-ordinator Christine Howles said:
“We wondered if we’d bought enough refreshments or would it be too many.
We needn’t have worried about buying too much, you’ve heard of the saying “build it and they will come”, in our case it was “book it and they will come”. I’ve been at the coffee morning since 2015 and I have never seen so many people!
“They came by boat, by car, by foot and on bikes.”
Eric, one of the Trust's founders who celebrated his 90th birthday last year, said:
“We have been doing these coffee mornings for about 40 years and even before
we came here we used to help the Trent and Mersey Society.
“Since we've been here we've started making friends and I've always said it's
more important to make friends than making money.
“However these coffee mornings have been able to collect quite a bit of money
for the Trust and it's helped towards the restoration programme.
“I've had people here today that I haven't seen for 40 years and the place has
been packed out so it's been absolutely wonderful.”
