Mecca Bingo Raise Cash through Online Bingo
Mecca Bingo have raised even more cash for their chosen charity, Marie Curie Cancer Care, through charity bingo games they run at their online bingo site. And we are talking about £12,000 in cash being added to the charity prize fund, so their online initiative has certainly played its part.
During the month of May this year Mecca Bingo brought their online bingo players the chance to play charity games at their site, where not only would they have been able to win real cash prizes, but raise money for this great cause as they played.
The charity event at Mecca Bingo obviously proved to be a great success for them and the cash raised will go towards the £200,000 pot that they have pledged to raise for Marie Curie throughout 2010.
In celebration of this charity event held at their online bingo site, Mecca Bingo also selected one of the Marie Curie game winners to attend an all expenses paid VIP night out at their land based bingo clubs in (Oldbury) and present the cheque.
The lucky winner was Wendy Hill from Sutton Coldfield………speaking about the event, she said –
“When my other half, Jon, told me that I’d been contacted by Mecca Bingo and my name had been drawn to represent them at a charity event, I was stunned. An all expenses paid night for four at Mecca Oldbury was a girl’s dream come true – I didn’t find out about the karaoke until later, which was just the icing on the cake!”
“As we readied ourselves for an evening of bingo, outfits were selected carefully and knowing that our picture would be taken, a visit to the hairdressers was a must! After much preparation, we arrived at Mecca Oldbury – it’s very pink! We were greeted by Bingo Dave and the team and introduced to Marie Curie volunteers, Trevor and Eileen Hall, before being shown to our table, which was covered in balloons and bubbly.”
“We had pictures taken with Trevor and Eileen to mark the occasion, before sitting down to play bingo with our electronic boards. Mecca Oldbury is so big – I was amazed! The Club has the usual bingo hall as well as a lounge area which was more relaxed. The latter area is where our table was located and enabled us to have a chat whilst we were playing. Oldbury had so many slot machines, the choice was amazing!”
Even though the bingo industry has been experiencing some very turbulent times over the past few years, their charity fundraising has never wavered.
