LATEST UPDATE: Final figure to be confirmed but we are looking like a total of around £13,000 raised this year. So a big thanks to everyone in the Poynton area in helping us smash through the £100,000 total for the last 10 years!
Poynton Round Table are a registered charity (Charity Commission Registration Number 1126988). Our main fundraisers are the annual bonfire and fireworks at Poynton Pool and the Santa Float. In the last 10 years we have donated almost £100,000 to local charities and good causes.
Our bigger donations have included £10,000 to Francis House Hospice and over £15,500 to MedEquip4Kids providing medical equipment including special baby care units. Other donations have helped many of the schools and local groups in the area, we even helped with a donation to the new skate park in tthe fields at the back of Poynton Station. A rough break down of the donations is as follows:
£44,439 Medical Equipment and charities
£22,258 Local Clubs and Good Causes
£7,650 Local Schools
£4,250 Sponsoring Local People on Trips
£4,222 Scouts / Guides
£3,980 Individual Requests
£3,390 Pre-Schools
£2,900 Sports Clubs
£2,522 Other
£1,865 Christmas Hampers distributed within Poynton
£350 National Good Causes
This is a grand total of: £97,825
“Not bad for a load of blokes from down the pub…”