Now coming up to its fifth year in January, the Summer Gala Soirée is an annual fundraising event that my mother organises.
Originally it was a fundraiser for our Rotary Club, but I’ve since left that club and she’s pulled back as well. Since she’s the main person that has done all the organisation and has all the personal contacts, she’s continued the event, but has now redirected it to be a Fundraiser for the Friends of the Academy, since she volunteers with them as well.
So I’ve purchased a domain name and today built out a little website, as I feel it’s always easier to organise something when it has a central home that you can point people to! This time around I’ve gone for a long-form site using one of the brand new “blocks” templates in WordPress.
Previously it was a single webpage within the Rotary Club website:
I usually help out with other marketing elements, such as putting together the flyer:
I’m a little sad that it takes place on Invasion Day – I’ve tried pushing for a change of date, but no luck!