(Monday 28th of September 2009)
A student has told all about the moment she scooped an enormous bingo bonus on her first ever bingo game. Anita Barzey, a 21-year-old from Bethnal Green, won a brand new Fiat Panda worth more than £6,000 after shelling out just £10 on bingo tickets. Understandably, all her friends are now trying to recreate the extraordinary bingo bonus success and she admits the experience has left her with a real taste for bingo games.
(Friday 25th of September 2009)
Efforts to save bingo clubs from Alistair Darling's proposed tax hike have been backed by a high-profile Liberal Democrat MP. Tom Brake, elected representative for Carshalton and Wallington, described the plan as "yet another example of misdirected taxation" and said the government should instead focus on protecting local bingo clubs. It comes not long after the government admitted that politicians have been inundated with letters from constituents about the importance of bingo games.
(Wednesday 23rd of September 2009)
Della Hancock, who survived a breast cancer battle three years ago, is counting the charity proceeds after staging her third lady's-only bingo night. Everything from the event will go to the Lady McAdden Breast Screening Unit and their quest to purchase a new mammography machine. In a similar vein, the bingo industry comes together annually to raise money for breast cancer charity Breakthrough for Breast Cancer. Bucky Bingo is a proud backer of Bingo for Breakthrough.
(Tuesday 22nd of September 2009)
Bingo games were among the fundraising antics at a star-studded Scarborough showpiece compered by local entertainment guru Tony Peers. The event at the Spa Complex raised several thousand pounds, which organisers will share out between Marie Curie Cancer Care, the Richard Fox Memorial Fund and the bizarrely named Grand Order of Water Rats. Bingo fans may be interested to hear Buckingham Bingo has an established base in the north-east.
(Tuesday 15th of September 2009)
A heart-warming project in Cheshire is helping to bridge the generation gap. Junior wardens have taken part in a local retirement home fun day, which involved several free bingo games. Organisers hailed the free bingo event as a huge success and were pleased that young and old got on so well together. Merseyside recently hosted a similar bingo outreach project in which school pupils were given a crash course in bingo by residents of a sheltered accommodation facility.
(Tuesday 8th of September 2009)
Bingo is a vital part of any community and nowhere is this more true than in the idyllic town of Cullompton, where bingo games are being planned to raise money for Christmas lights. Now the town clerk has called upon local people to introduce their friends and relatives to bingo for the fabulous festive show. Buckingham Bingo - the club-based division of Bucky - prides itself on being a vital part of communities all over the north of England.
(Tuesday 1st of September 2009)
There are many reasons why people decide to march. Sometimes it's for pleasure, sometimes to stand up for what they believe in and sometimes to satisfy their passion for bingo. A group of Lancashire-based octogenarians have just completed a two-mile trek on their walking frames to raise money for a bingo game machine at their hospice. It is yet another example of the extraordinary lengths that ordinary people will go to when they really love bingo.
Breakthrough Breast Cancer is the UK's leading charity committed to fighting breast cancer.
