We had a great day at the Green Centre on Saturday the 10th May. A big thank you to everyone who brought along their aluminium cans and foil for recycling and to those who helped sort them at the event on Saturday. We managed to raise a total of £15 between us. Thank you to Mel too for organising this for the group and letting us use the Green Centre for our event.

Although it rained which meant we changed this day to an indoor event, we still had fun and the sun broke through by the afternoon. We were also very happy to welcome many of our newer members to our World Lupus day event.

There was a great spread of food, a chance to browse the group’s library of books about lupus and we also had a very interesting discussion about what worked for each of us when managing this condition.

Mel had a little quiz for us, testing us on our recycling knowledge and I think we all came away knowing a little bit more about recycling.

Thanks also goes to everyone who donated prizes to our tombola, which raised a further £21.60 on the day and provided a little bit of light entertainment!

In addition to the £36.60 raised on the day, we made a further £27 in donations to the group following this event. We’d like to thank Brenda for her donation to the group and Serena who despite being unable to attend due to her Open House worked very hard to raise money for the group.

A big thank you to Terri who came along early and helped Mel and I set up the room and also stayed to help tidy up at the end.

It was also great to have the chance to meet Oswalde, who has been so dedicated over the last few months in helping to sort the many thousands of collected plastic bottle tops. This has raised money for both Lupus Brighton and Hove and LupusUK.