“The Abridge Fireworks have been running since 2011 and it has just got bigger and bigger each year – we never expected it to grow into such a monster! But a great monster! Since we started the event, we have raised a combined total of more than £64,000 for charity. On Friday 17 th November Bill Sullivan, Abridge Fireworks Volunteer, and Danny Blain, Chairman of the Abridge Fireworks Committee, presented a cheque for £2,000 to St Clare Hospice. Brenda helped to grow it into the massive fundraiser it now is – making thousands of pounds for worthy local causes.” Brenda was one of the first to step forward to help – and later managed to rope me in too! Brenda’s role was always to collect the money on the gate for the fireworks, and she never let anyone get through without a ticket, because it was raising money for charity. It was exactly the same with Abridge Fireworks. She signed up as a fundraising volunteer, helping with events and raffles, and within a couple of years she persuaded me to help too.
When we first moved to Abridge, Brenda wanted to volunteer at St Clare Hospice as her mother had been cared for by them. “Brenda was always the first to sign up to help others. Bill Sullivan has also volunteered as a St Clare volunteer and helped at this year’s Abridge Fireworks which were held in honour of his wife. Brenda was a much-loved volunteer and was famous for running the annual St Clare Christmas raffle – raising hundreds of pounds in vital funding for the hospice over her many years of dedicated support.īrenda and her husband Bill have lived in Abridge for more than 16 years and Brenda was one of the first people to join the Abridge Firework committee as a volunteer when they launched the event in 2011. This was in addition to another £13,000 which was donated to various other local good causes following the 2017 event.īrenda Sullivan, who started volunteering at St Clare Hospice in 2003 as a volunteer fundraiser and who later became a hospice receptionist, died at St Clare in September 2017. On Sunday 5 th November more than 7,500 people turned out for the Abridge Fireworks display which this year was held in memory of St Clare Hospice volunteer, Brenda Sullivan, and fellow Abridge resident, Arnold Raven.Ī fantastic £2,000 was donated by the Abridge Fireworks committee following the display, to support the work of the hospice. Published on: Thursday at 08:33 Brenda honoured with beautiful Firework display
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