twestival local - Tweet.Meet.Give. - March 24, 2011

There once was a young girl from Farnham

She loved to just sit there and write

Addicted to twitter; she’d endlessly witter

And chatter and tweet through the night

 
She never got dressed in the morning

Her poor house just never got cleaned

She’d follow the trends then she’d count up her friends

She was hardly away from her screen

 
One day she cooked a nice dinner,

Well…she started, but then she forgot

She looked all around; found her house had burned down

And said “Bugger - I thought it was hot”.

Copyright Jan Jack 2011 - Laughter-House Comedy Clubs and Perfect Verse bespoke gifts
www.laughter-house.co.uk and www.perfectverse.co.uk


 

 

Thank you to all of you who attended last night's Farnham Twestival in aid of Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice. What an evening and with special thanks to our speakers Ilicco Elia who gave an insightful talk on the world of mobile/digital communications at Reuters; including the incredible data transfer speeds offered by modern technology. Thank you also to all our other speakers: Kerry Bridge, James Firth, Spencer Gallagher, Chris Green and Trevor Davis; who’s combined knowledge brought the Big Society discussion to the table.

Our fantastic venue, the Bush Hotel was weighed down with vast quantities of chocolate courtesy of Mars Drinks. The venue was kindly supplied by the Mercure Bush Hotel, who put a huge amount of effort into making the evening run smoothly, as well as offering all those attending a discount on rooms on the night. Thank you Mercure and the Bush Hotel team!

So how much did we raise? The 100 ticket sales amounted to £1,500.00. The raffle, with thanks to Paul Marden, raised a massive £800 and with further bucket collections and donations through justgiving…The grand total raised for the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice was £2,372.30!

Well compared Andrew Cox!

You can see a selection of photos from the evening here.

If anyone is thinking of a summer bash, why not contact Farnham Sound and Light – as featured at Farnham Twestival.

Last but by no means least, thank you all those who contributed raffle prizes, including Dell who donated a Dell Vostro V130 laptop. Dell will also kindly be sponsoring the next two  Digital Surrey events; the next of which will be on the 20th April - further details to follow.
 

The Mercure Bush Hotel, Farnham, has kindly offered a discount to all those Twestival goers who would like to stay at the hotel following this evening's event.

Usual price

• Single room with breakfast - £185-00
• Double room with breakfast - £195.00

Discount rate for Farnham Twestival attendees

• Single room with breakfast - £100-00
• Double room with breakfast - £110-00

To make your reservation, please call: 01252 715237

Many thanks to the Mercure Bush Hotel, Farnham for sponsoring this evening's venue and for offering this discount.

I believe that our fund raising raffle is one of the most effective ways to raise money for Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice. I've been amazed by the generosity of the many local and national business who have pledged prizes this year. 

So with that in mind here's a list of the prizes available this evening:

• Dell Vostro V130 slim, light weight laptop
• 30min Flying Lesson in a Piper Warrior with Airways Flying Club donated by Orcare Web Design
• 2 x Tickets for any Aldershot Town Football Club home game, including buffet meal, leather seats on the half way line in front of the Directors Box, match day programme and refreshments.
• 2 x Tickets for Dirty Dancing Tribute Night at The Village Hotel, Farnborough, including 3 course meal, tribute act and a disco.
• 1 Day Video / Edit Shoot with London Corporate Media, enough to shoot, edit and deliver a short Corp piece to camera.

Tickets will be available for £2.50 each or 5 for £10, and the draw will take place during the evening

Of course there is also still time to buy tickets for our online raffles where you can win either of the following great prizes:

• 2 x Tickets for Laughter House Comedy Club, Basingstoke - Buy tickets now!
• Crate of TEA real ale plus 2 x tickets for Hogs Back Brewery tour which includes plenty of sampling - Buy tickets now!

Tickets for the Raffle.it online raffles are £2 each, and you'll find out immediately if you're in the lead.  We will then freeze the online raffles this evening and will announce the winner at the Twestival Event tonight.

Best of luck.


Paul @orcare

We’re all very much looking forward to this Thursday’s Twestival Farnham! We have a fantastic speaker lined up on the night, Ilicco Elia, Head of Consumer Mobile at Reuters (@ilicco) who will be delivering the keynote talk, ‘A Corporate Lad Living in a Mobile Social world’. The talk will discuss how mobile has changed the news cycle by impacting all stages of the process of news gathering, curation and distribution.

We’re delighted that Ilicco will be joining us and supporting Twestival Farnham to help Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice.

Following the keynote talk, Business and Technology journalist, Chris Green will chair a panel discussion with industry experts about the role of online participation in the concept of Big Society.

Joining Chris and Ilicco on the panel will be:

•    Kerry Bridge, Social Media Communications Manager at Dell (@KerryatDell)
•    James Firth, Managing Director at Dalton Firth (@JamesFirth)
•    Spencer Gallagher, Founder of Bluhalo (@spg4)
•    Trefor Davis, CTO and Co-founder of Timico (@tref).

Only a limited number of tickets are available for the event, so make sure you get yours now to avoid disappointment!