Charity hatches bid for egg-stra special Easter
WITH Easter just over a fortnight away, a Valley charity is offering chocoholics the chance to get their hands on this giant egg - for as little as £2.
The egg-stravagant specimen - roughly the size of an average threeyear-old child - is being raffled off in aid of mental health charity the WaterWell Foundation.
Tipping the scales at 12.5kg, the ‘luxury’ egg - expertly crafted by awardwinning chocolatiers Slattery’s - is 30 inches high and had to be collected in an SUV.
Raffle tickets for the towering treat are just £2 apiece (three for £5), and Whitefield-based Slattery’s served it up at cost price to maximise proceeds to the charity.
One of WaterWell’s volunteers Charlie Brown, 14, is also dressing as an Easter bunny, and is surprising some of the competition’s entrants with personalised online messages.
The raffle will be drawn online on Saturday, April 3, and will link up with a traditional Easter dance performance by the Britannia Coconutters, for which viewers can also donate. The competition is open to all, but the allimportant prize needs to be picked up from Rossendale.
Events director Lia Holmes said they received plenty of admiring glances from neighbours when they were taking promotional pictures for the raffle.
“It’s huge!” she said.
“It was the biggest we could find in the UK and it takes a lot of skill to put the two halves together. It’s meant to be top quality, luxury chocolate as well. It could make a whole street happy. If we win it we are going to give it to a nursery.”
Lia thanked volunteers Ashleigh Warwick-Sharphouse and Lisa Michelle Stuart for collecting the precious cargo.
“They went in a Shogun to pick it up!” she said.
“They were driving very carefully all the way home; Ashleigh was holding on to it. It’s in a top secret location and we’ve got to keep it in a cold room.”
Charlie said: “Not only did I enjoy dressing up like a bunny for the fun of it, I also enjoyed doing it for the fundraising for the charity.
“I wasn’t doing much before and now I’m proud I’m doing something for the charity.”
To enter the raffle, visit WaterWell Foundation Events on Facebook or contact Lia on 07960 787840 / lia@waterwellfoundation.co.uk WaterWell CIC’s main areas are on mental health support including male suicide prevention, depression and PTSD therapy, and bereavement support.