Advance warning: Bring and Buy sale!
On Sunday 28th January, there will be a Bring and Buy sale to raise money for the installation and upkeep of a new, permanent PA in the Brudenell Social Club.
Please consider this advance warning!
We want all donations, no matter how small - books, clothes, records, CDs, videos, DVDs, bric-a-brac, home made crafts, electrical goods, etc etc etc. Start making a pile of things you want rid of!!
If any local artists or zine writers would like to showcase their work, please contact us to arrange selling your stuff at the sale in exchange for a small donation from your profits.
We will also have a booze tombola, giant chess and some kind of evening entertainment - bands or maybe another gameshow, after the success of the ‘Mr and Mrs’ game at the last Bring and Buy. Ideas for this part of the evening are welcome.
Bob and Rich will be printing a Brudenell tea towel, and you’ll be able to draw your own portrait (or have Ian Seven Inches draw it for you), to appear on the tea towel, in return for a small donation.
What we need
An event like this is a big job so we need volunteers to lighten the load a bit. Can you help with any of this?
Donations: Including your unwanted Christmas gifts! Claire and Neil can arrange to pick up large items. There is storage at the Brudenell, in the old committee room, so if you want to take any donations early, you can do so.
Circulation of flyers: Giving them out at gigs, local events, putting them in shops, putting them through doors on your street…
Helpers on the day: To run a stall, set things out, and most importantly, pack away the remaining donations afterwards. Helpers usually get first pick of the donations and we would like everyone to do about an hour on a stall.
Chefs: People willing to make vegetarian and vegan cakes, buns, pies and snacks, and people to make and sell cups of tea on the day.
Publicity: If you have any ideas for people we can tell about the sale, let us know. We would like to try get a small piece in the Evening Post, the Leeds Student paper, Leeds Met paper, Metro and other local free papers - can you help? We want to try reach people outside the local gig and music scene, and get a big crossover of different communities. Any help with sticking up posters in places like the Cardigan Centre, local post offices and local shops would be handy.
If you have ideas, comments or help to offer, please come along to a Brudenell meeting (there’s one tonight at 6pm in the lounge bar), post on this thread on the Cops and Robbers forum, or contact Shumsky via private message and sort it out direct.