Coffee morning hosted by fundraising superstar makes £7,500 for Ukraine
A Swaffham coffee morning for the Ukraine appeal hosted by Gill Creed made more than £7,500 - Credit: Archant/Gill Creed
Swaffham's best-known fundraiser has expressed her delight after an event for the Ukraine appeal made more £7,500.
Through her salon, Just Hair, Gill Creed has helped raise around £500,000 for good causes since the mid-1980s.
She was even recognised in the New Year Honours list 2022 for services to fundraising and her community.
Swaffham's fundraising superstar Gill Creed hosted a coffee morning for the Ukraine appeal at the Assembly Rooms - Credit: Denise Bradley
Amid the war in Ukraine, Mrs Creed teamed up with Market Cross cafe and the Iceni Partnership to organise a coffee morning at Swaffham Assembly Rooms.
Fifty prizes were donated for the raffle and the venue was a packed house as a staggering £7,565 was raised.
A thousand pounds came in the form of matched funding from Barclays bank in Fakenham, and hundreds more has continued to flood in since the event.
An overwhelmed Mrs Creed said: "That is the most we have ever raised at a coffee morning in all the years we have been doing it.
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"Everyone in Swaffham and the surrounding area clearly wants to support the people of Ukraine, and to do what they can to help."
