GB eye pitch up for charity
Company raises raise over £4000 for local charity 5-a-side football tournament.
GB eye's first ever charity event took place on Friday 16th July and was an overwhelming success. Despite looming clouds and showers throughout the day a festive crowd turned out to watch 10 teams battle it out for supremacy on the field at Aurora Sports Centre near Sheffield.
GB eye invited suppliers and partners to take part in a 5-a-side football tournament in support of Sheffield-based charity, Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice, and each team was asked to contribute a donation to the charity in order to take part. Further fund-raising activities followed, including an impressively stocked raffle and auction which saw a framed signed Chelsea shirt go for £255.
Following a gruelling afternoon of tense qualifying matches, the final witnessed the host team GB eye take on the Bluebell Wood Allstars charity team. Fittingly Bluebell Wood took the only goal of the match and walked away with the trophy.
With the event so well attended and generous contributions received from key partners such as HMV, 20th Century Fox, Nickelodeon, Liverpool FC, Evolution Print and Deeset, GB eye is already looking forward to plans for 2011.
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