Rentabooth was approached a while back to see if we cover charity functions but we do get quite a few calls from charities to offer our services for free. We finally made the decision to offer our services to a charity of our choice every year that we felt was a particularly good cause.

The Tabernacle in Notting Hill last Thursday was the party that we chose after Harriet rang us a few weeks ago and all of the proceeds were going to Refuge. The party itself was free to enter if the guests at the door had a toy with them. If not the entrance fee was £25.00. The toys are to be distributed amongst the children whose mums are being looked after by Refuge to make sure that they have a good Christmas. There were over 400 people there! It was heaving.

A room was set aside for the toys to be placed in and by 9.00 pm the collection would not have disgraced Hamleys. A band upstairs provided the main entertainment but the bar was downstairs along with food and of course, the Photobooth! As popular as ever we were not charging for it but we were there with a bucket asking for cash from anybody who used it and rattled it furiously after each group had used the booth…

We raised over £440 in cash for Refuge. Here are some of the images from the evening.

On Saturday we covered a Bnei Mitzvah in Bushey for Annie & Georgia. (do you remember my explanation of a Bnei Mitzvah from a few months ago when we covered the triplets?)

Here are a few of the images.

On Sunday we were at the Hilton in Stansted Airport for a wedding exhibition. Not the busiest exhibition that we have covered as the weather was truly terrible but a few bookings directly from it already with, hopefully, more to come.

We are booking up very fast for next year and 2011 bookings have started to come in too. We already have three dates in 2010 that are fully booked.