On Friday, 15 October, Hilton PS P&C held our annual social fundraising event for our parents and carers – HILTON HOEDOWN! Yee-Haw!! It was a fantastic night, with lots of fun had by all and (importantly) money raised to help us reach our fundraising goals.
Huge thanks to our hosts for the evening ‘Betty-May’ (aka Cath Fitzhardinge) and ‘Buster Wrangler – Stylist to the Cowboy Stars’ (aka Frank Mofflin) as well as our amazing live band The Vacant Lot – Nic, Sebastian and Steve. Thanks to everyone who helped make this event happen, gathering donations and prizes, setting up, checking people in at the door, and line dancing instruction! Naomi McKenzie, Leila Reay, Rebecca Powell, Deb Lucas, Aimee Simpson, Kirsty Ball, Anton McKay and Ben Kelly. We had two wonderful bar staff, Hamish and Nicki, who kept us well hydrated through the night. And very special thanks to Lea Klein from Sustylable Event Hire who provided us with some fabulous items from her sustainable events styling business which really pulled everything together into the ‘classic Hoedown’ style we were aiming for.
We had many popular items in our silent auction, with several bidding wars throughout the evening lasting until the call of ‘last bids’! Massive thanks to all our amazing donors (see our list of donors), and to everyone who put in a bid. Congratulations to the lucky highest bidders who got to take home their treasures. Congratulations also to our prize winners – best dancers, best dressed, quiz and games winners, spot prizes and door prize.
We are so lucky to have such a positive, generous and talented community to help us make these events happen, and to volunteer their time, businesses and products for the benefit of the students at HPS!
Final thanks to everyone who came along to have some fun, spend some time together and open their wallets to boost our fundraising efforts! To quote ‘Betty-May’ “It’s all for the kids!!!”
Thank you to our generous sponsors!! Support those who support us!!
