Collectors help Littlehampton Bonfire Society break record

CHAMPION collectors who helped Littlehampton Bonfire Society to smash its charity fund-raising total at the town’s Bonfire Night last month have been rewarded.
By The Newsroom
Published 27th Nov 2011, 06:00 BST

The final total for this year’s street collection of £9,110 comfortably beat the previous best of £8,837 in 2007, and was £1,422 up on 2010.

Now, the society hopes the upward trend, following a decline over the past three years, will continue at its 60th anniversary bonfire event next year, and that a cherished target of £10,000 will finally be broken.

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On Saturday, the society presented its “Collection Challenge” awards to the best individual and team collectors. With £605, the Littlehampton Baptist Church won the team category and with it the Frances Harrison Trophy, and a donation of £100 to the charity of its choice. Skill Bodge, members of the backstage crew of Littlehampton Musical Comedy Society, received the Laura May’s Collection Challenge Cup and £50 for a favourite charity, for the second-placed total of £571 and Broadwater Carnival’s £365 took third place, the Henry Shine Memorial Cup and £25 for charity.

The new Pub Collection Challenge was won by the Dolphin, with £240, ahead of the Arun View (£114) and the Fish Factory (£112).

Allen Alderton was the best individual collector, with £215, receiving the David Jones Memorial Cup. Roger Butterworth was second, with £124 and last year’s winner, Christopher Cooper, was third, with £117.

Tyndall Jones, who always exempts himself from the individual collector award, achieved a personal best of £1,194, the first time he has exceeded £1,000 in one day.