Sweethearts Ball Preface
Tom Beaumont the big man himself and a real asset to the station at the time. Mr Sweethearts Ball Man.
Tom Beaumont Studio 2 Mr Sweethearts Ball Man.
One of the most talked about events of the year was the sweethearts ball. Tom Beaumont son of Captain Beaumont of the Racecourse and Roger Hawkes with assistance of other members of the radio spent a lot of time and effort into making this a success.
The event staged on Friday 12th February 1993 at the racecourse was attended by over 200 people. Live music, disco, a fish supper and wine all provided an evening of romance.
Below is the staff news letter report which appeared in March edition 1993.
Sweethearts Ball Staff Newsletter Report
Caterers Letherby & Christopher deserve a huge note of thanks from us all for the excellent food for which they charged us only a fraction of the actual cost, they also provided bar staff waitresses and assistants at no extra cost. On conclusion of the event, bar takings had been so good they donated back £206:59p to our efforts.
A bouquet was presented to Margaret Ferguson for her help and companionship she has given to many of us during our time at Heatherwood.
Mrs Ada Hawkes and Mrs Dot Fishenden raised £175 on the night selling raffle tickets.
In the absence of the secretary and the manager Gordon Young studio manager thanked everyone for attending, what he thought had been, a most successful evening and a wonderful PR exercise for the station.
Vanda Hird won the best dressed female & Mr Walters won the prize for the best dressed male.
Two hundred people attended a wonderful evening and Tom & Roger received numerous letters/cards of thanks and praise for such a good night.
The total profit was £877. A staggering amount for the first venture of it's kind.
Many people need thanking for making the event so successful:-
Ascot Authority,Surrey Fasteners,Stuarts Hairdressers, Sunningdale,Letherby & Christopher,Vampire Disco's,Gelston Castle Fine Wines,The Directors(Skint till pay-day),Silwood Nurseries,Susan Bailey,Designer Conservatory Bases.
Roger Hawkes & Tom Beaumont Fridays.
Sweethearts Ball - The Funny Bit's
Did You See !
* Gordon & Margaret dancing to “ Hootsman ”, Roger called him up to handout the bouquet to Margaret and did him like a kipper.
* Roger & Caroline jiving !.
* Rebecca & Lee “ Twisting the night away ” ( Don't get green CP ).
* Captain & Mrs Beaumont dancing to “ baggy trousers ”!.
* The drummer of the band and Mark getting on down.
* Mark Porch playing his guitar ( superbly ) in his shades, “ Old sexy come to bed eyes ”.
* Mark dancing intimately with a girl he'd known for all of ten minutes( Not called Sophie was she ?).
* That man and his wife dancing properly to everything.!.
* Lee & Yvonne looking after the disco while Roger circulated-Lee doing what he was told !.
* Allan's Leary tee-shirt !.
* Dave Griff looking super smooth Cool Dude or What !.
* Carla's sister leading “ OOPS upside your head ”
* Carla at the bar several times!.
* Rebecca's legs in that split skirt! ( phew! )
* The man from Beau-Monte in his red/orange shirt.
Back to TopOn behalf of Tom and Myself( Ricky ) We would like to say a big thank you to all who helped sell tickets: provide a raffle prize and for a great team effort which made our sweethearts ball such a success.Here's to the next one !
Roger & Tom.
Footnote:- I am sure everyone on the station would like to thank Roger and Tom for their marvellous contribution to our station by arranging the Sweethearts ball Well done chaps.
