A TABLE raffle at the Somerset Business Awards raised £500 for cancer charity Somerset Unit for Radiotherapy Equipment (SURE).
Other donations for the County Gazette charity, which raises funds to help equip the Beacon Centre at Taunton’s Musgrove Park Hospital, included £6.01 from a collection pot at the Esplanade Fish Bar, in Burnham; £16.69 from the collection pot at Somerset and Dorset, Burnham; £131 raised by members of the Taunton Unison Retirement Social Club; and £120 from Chucks Wonders Skittle Team, of Ashcott, in lieu of a trophy for winning the local mixed Glastonbury and Street Skittles League.
Collections of 5p coins amounted to £30 from Margaret Forward, £30 from Joanne McNulty, family and friends, and £52 from the Ladies of Moose Hall.
There was also £10 from Diane Rosling’s sister and £750 from a charity fun day at Minehead Cricket Club.
And £174 collected at the Beacon Centre included £145.80 in 5ps.
The total donations received over the past week are £1819.70, bringing the total raised since SURE linked up with the Gazette to £458, 084.77.
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