Dessert Lovers Raise Money for Charity

Dessert lovers of Suffolk, gathered in Ipswich on Thursday 8th May, 2008, to indulge over as many puddings as they could, but at the same time raise money for charity.

Local hearing care specialists, The Hearing Care Centre, based at 5 High St Ipswich, teamed up with Ipswich restaurant, The Dining Room to organise the ‘dessert lovers heaven’ event.

Guests were treated to a delicious main course, followed all they could eat from an array of delicious homemade puddings, topped with lashings of cream and custard. The theme of the evening was traditional English, and featured classic puddings such as Sticky Toffee Pudding with rum fudge sauce and a very chocolatey Black Forest Gâteau.

Hearing Dogs for Deaf People is The Hearing Care Centre’s chosen charity and the company is aiming to raise £5,000 in 2008 for the East Anglian Puppy Scheme run by the charity.

The charity Pudding Club event raised over £1100 for the charity, through ticket sales, donations and a charity auction, which was held on the night.

Karen Finch, The Hearing Care Centre MD and self-confessed dessert lover said, “Tonight has been a tremendous success. Myself along with everyone else there last night will probably have to go on diets for the next 2 weeks, but that’s a small price to pay for the amazing amount of money we have raised for Hearing Dogs from this event”.

Mr Calvesbert, Membership Manager for the Suffolk Chamber of Commerce also won the prize of a bottle of wine, donated by The Dining Room for successfully eating the most puddings!

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As well as its premises, in High Street, Ipswich, The Hearing Care Centre operates in Botesdale, Bury St Edmunds, Eye, Felixstowe, Framlingham, Hadleigh, Halesworth, Needham Market, Southwold, Stowmarket and Woodbridge.
Hearing Dogs are trained from puppies. Training sessions take place monthly in Soham (between Ely & Newmarket) but the puppies are homed with volunteer families for about 9 months of the year all over Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. Each puppy costs £1000 to train in this way.
Nearly nine million of the UK population experience some degree of hearing loss. That’s one person in every seven. Over 650,000 of these people are severely or profoundly deaf and could benefit from a hearing dog.
Hearing dogs change lives. They alert their deaf owners to sounds we take for granted, providing greater independence, confidence and security. Most are selected from rescue centres or donated as unwanted pets.
www.hearingdogs.org.uk | www.hearingcarecentre.co.uk | www.the-diningroom.co.uk