Thanks Supercabby for your input.
For agingdave's information the Calis Children's Charity are the organisers of the Christmas Fair.
Firstly, to set things straight, there are two restaurants attached to Dennis the Menace. As Nicholas Homes frontage where the 3C's normally locate Santa's grotto no longer exists this year, as part of the area has been let to Moussaka restaurant, the 3C's, as organisers of the Christmas fair, need to seek an alternative central location for Father Christmas's grotto and the only area that is available and empty under cover that can be got ready the night before the event is the empty area of Dennis next to Cafe Soul. We have spoken to Dennis and he has no problem in us using this area,
Our sponsors, Pera organisation, have to work throughout the night to get this area ready for father Christmas's grotto, and cannot do their work in an area that is being used as a restaurant. Dennis is the only suitable area central on the promenade.
As members of Embrace know well, the 3C's stalls have to be located next to the grotto as we have have to sort out Santa, the sound system and everything else connected with running the fair.
When we plan the event we have tried very hard not to locate similar stalls next to each other. In this instance, to alleviate any problems we intend to locate our tombola stall as far away as possible from the Embrace tombola stall as near as possible to Santa in the left hand side of the Dennis next to Cafe Soul. We are planning to locate the Embrace stall as far away as possible from us in the second part of Dennis next to Moussaka as when they booked they requested that they be located in Dennis so we have tried to comply with their wishes.
I personally do not see this as a problem for either of our charities as the 3C's have always been located next door to Embrace in Nicholas Homes area for the last 3 years and this distance is no further away than we are located this year.
Also, please do not forget that the nearer that Embrace are located to Santa's grotto which is the central point of the whole fair, the better (and hopefully busier) it is for them. Also,we do provide Embrace (and all other charities) with a free stall.
I really do not see what the problem is. At the end of the day both our charities are trying to enhance the life of children in the local area and there should be no animosity between our two charities
It all seems very petty to me and if agingdave thinks that he can do a better job in organising what could be 150+ stalls than he is welcome to try.
