Sambrook Manor hosts a charity garden party

Sambrook Manor in Sambrook held a special garden party, raising money for the local church and for Prostate Cancer too.

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00:00So we're here at the lovely Sandbrook Manor. Amazing gardens. People may know them from being

00:05open for the National Garden Scheme and Eileen it's your garden. It is. So you don't just open

00:10for the National Garden Scheme you have lots of little fundraising garden parties. This is for

00:14prostate cancer. Yeah and you represent the prostate cancer charity. I'm a retired nurse

00:20but I do prostate cancer testing and Eileen kindly does this for me. I did it last year

00:26and helped pay towards the one we did at Newport and she's done it again this year which is

00:31marvellous. Fantastic and we've got one of the organizers here with you. What's your name

00:35madam? Karen, I just help Eileen out. Cool. So fantastic. You've ordered the sunshine, it's behaving.

00:42So how much do you hope to raise on today then? Well we'll probably raise over a thousand anyway.

00:49Yeah and it's for two causes. Prostate cancer and half of it goes to our local church. Grand.

00:57And so how do people get the invite? How do you put the word out then? How do you get on the VIP list?

01:04She's known everywhere. She's marvellous. She does a lot for different charities, lots for this

01:08village. Yeah. So people just know to look out. Sandbrook Manor, they'll have a garden party.

01:13Let's go. Eileen gets you there one way or the other. Yeah, yeah.

01:16Tickets out and about. It's a WRI and we can take them everywhere.

01:20Yeah, actually, actually I must mention the WRI. I've been absolutely wonderful.

01:25Yeah, right. So how many years have you been fundraising for Eileen?

01:29No, we've just been discussing that. I know, yeah.

01:32I know it's around about 1979, something like that. I can't actually say.

01:40We were having horse and pony shows and all sorts of things.

01:44Wow. Shall I make you feel really old? I was born in 78.

01:50So you can't see me on the camera, viewers, but I'm not looking fresh anymore. So let's just put it

01:54this way. Eileen's been fundraising for a long, long time. A long time, yeah.

01:58Yeah, just think how much you must have raised over those years. I know.

02:02It must add up to some, you know. A lot, yeah.

02:05Well, thank you, Eileen, for all the good work you do here and thank you to everyone involved.

02:10Thank you, ladies. Thank you to the WRI, ladies, especially.

02:14Ching-ching to the WRI. Absolutely, yeah.