Yesterday was St Joseph’s Thame annual Christmas Fete, and the Friends of St Joseph’s were kind enough to give the Building Fund space for a stall.
We decided to run a tombola, and at one point were nearly overrun with customers. Partly this was due to the high quality of the prizes which had been donated (thank you very much to everyone who contributed). Partly I think this is due to the attraction of a tombola.
According to dictionary.com, ‘tombola’ comes from the Italian ‘to tumble or fall’, which is a reference to the fact that the tickets are usually held in a rotating drum.
We decided to give our tombola a twist, with numbered balls (a la Lotto) hidden in a barrel. For £2 you could pick out five balls, and if the number on any ball ended in ‘0′ or ‘5′ you won a prize. The odds of winning a prize are pretty good (roughly one prize for every turn), so everyone went home happy.
Thanks to everyone’s support and generosity we managed to raise nearly £200 for the Building Fund.
