On Saturday, 11th November we held our annual quiz; this time it was at the Keynsham Scout HQ. We had over 75 people attend, ready to answer a variety of general knowledge questions.

The questions were somewhat challenging this year, and when asked, one of our ‘quizzers’ from Bath Mencap did say he “liked to be challenged”. Someone also mentioned via social media that they attended the hardest quiz in the world! Well here at Keynsham Mencap we like to push boundaries and raise the bar, we do have beacon status after all!

Congratulations to the team called ‘The Hopefuls’ who won the star prize, but then generously donated the items back. Kit Kettel, our quizmaster host-with-the-most kept the audience engaged and injected some welcome humour into the questions.

Just to mix things up a bit, we held a mini bingo game right at the end, and the very talented William Marsh called out the numbers with ease.

Some great raffle prizes were generously donated by local businesses, and the bar and door sales helped us to raise over £800.

This money will go straight to providing even more social opportunities to local people that are affected by a range of learning disabilities.

Our events wouldn’t be the success they are without the help, enthusiasm and dedication of our staff members and volunteers. Massive thanks go out to the amazing volunteers Hazel Thompson, Niall Tomlins, Nicola Hodges, Karen Wells and George Hodges, who gave up their time to prepare the hall, run the bar, clean up the empties and blitz the place after the fun had ended.

We have a members committee who are on hand to help out at our events and ambassadors William Marsh, Barry Hollyman and Suzie Lewis stepped in to help with the additional fundraising activities throughout the evening.

If you want to know more or would like to get involved, please contact: [email protected] – there are so many different ways you can help.

Amanda Leonard