twestival local - Tweet.Meet.Give. - March 24, 2011

One of the most important things to us when trying to decide what to do with our headline event, was that we had to provide value for money and make sure people have a lot of FUN! We are therefore delighted that Devon entertainment business, Fun Matters, has generously given us the use of two of their fun inflatable activities for the evening.

We know what you're thinking, as if five brilliant local music acts, a celebrity auctioneer, a fun casino and a bar weren't enough, this is the nice big juicy cherry on top of the delicious cake! And all for £10, with every penny going to the Chestnut Appeal.

Jousting

Remember the Gladiators? We do, which is why we're looking forward to this so much! Jousting is a crazy fun event that's not for the faint hearted. Stand on a platform and hit your contestant until they fall off theirs. Simples!

Sumo-wrestling

Sumo-wrestling is guaranteed to create a lot of laughs. Climb inside a sumo-suit and wrestle your opponent until one of you steps outside the circle. The last person inside the circle wins!

We are all keeping our fingers crossed for sunshine so we can have this equipment outside (the forecast is looking good at the moment!). They will be available from 6:30pm until about 8:30pm, or until we run out of light, whichever comes first. All we are asking for you to use this equipment is a donation to our charity partner, The Chestnut Appeal. You will be able to make these donations on the night.

Challenges

You know there's someone you'd love to challenge, so now is your chance! Whether they're a friend, family member, colleague, boss, or even a member of the PlymTwest Team (other than those with valid sick notes), as long as you've both got tickets we can make it happen. All we need to make this happen is both of your names (and a photo of each of you would be great), whether you want to do sumo wrestling or jousting and whether you're going for 1 or 3 bouts. We'll book you in and give you your very own section on our website so you can encourage your friends to back you by donating to Chestnut Appeal. Simply email this info to twestival.plymouth@gmail.com or comment below to arrange your bout.

PlymTwest: The Party takes place from 6:30-11:00pm on Thursday 24th January at Plymouth Albion Rugby Football Club. Tickets for the event are £10 per person, £15 for 1 adult and 2 children or £25 for 2 adults and up to 4 children. Tickets must be purchased in advance by clicking on 'Get tickets' in the top right hand corner of this page and then selecting 'PlymTwest: The Party' from the ticketing options.

Thursday 24th March - WoW Nightclub, the Barbican - 10:30pm-late

Ending an evening at 11pm is just too early for some of us. Let’s face it, Plymouth is just full of party animals, and that’s why we have decided to add an after-party to our schedule of events. As an organising committee we are particularly excited about this as it is our chance to let our hair down and have a beer and a boogie, and we hope that you will all join us. We can’t promise we will be well behaved, or that we will dance well, but what we can guarantee is that it is going to be A LOT of fun!

WoW nightclub (Facebook link) on the Barbican has kindly offered to host our late night fun and frolics, which will run from 10:30pm until late. We have confirmed a brilliant band, The Waterboarders and WoW’s in-house DJ will provide the musical entertainment.

Tickets for our after-party are only £5 each and must be purchased in advance here, so get your party hats on, get your tickets and come and join in the fun! Remember that all proceeds from the ticket sales will go towards reaching our target of £15,000 for the Chestnut Appeal (@ChestnutAppeal).

Over the last few weeks we’ve been busy planning our PlymTwest events, and we know that we’ve got to get back to that again – there’s lots of fun to be had, and we want to make the most of it. But, there’s more to Twestival than the events.

We’ve been busy talking about it. There’s Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, articles, radio interviews, and no doubt more to come! We’re even talking in hashtags we’ve been so keen to create a local buzz – and we’re finding ways to get more local people and businesses using Twitter, after all Twestival is a great hook. But there’s more to Twestival than the social media.

We’ve been busy thinking about how we can hit our fundraising target, and planning lots of things to contribute towards the £15,000 we want to raise to buy a mobile scanner and biopsy unit for the Chestnut Appeal. And, we are just reminding ourselves, there is more to Twestival than fundraising.

One of our sponsors (@SilverstreamTV) has just finished producing a promotional video for our charity. It has reminded us that there is something bigger at stake here. Through our enjoyment, our chat and our fundraising we can do something bigger than the sum of the parts. We can get men to take their health seriously and we can save lives.

Now it doesn’t get much bigger than that.

Watching the first edit of the video earlier this morning I was reminded of why we are doing it all. If you are a man, do you know where your prostrate is and what it does? Probably, like many of our team just a few weeks ago you are living in blissful ignorance. Our eyes were opened when we got to speak to our chosen charity. The dedication of the staff at the Chestnut Appeal (a man’s prostrate is the shape and size of a chestnut) is impressive. We’ve all learnt a lot. And we’ve learnt how easy it is for an early diagnosis to save lives.

Watching the video I remembered why we are doing what we’re doing. As one of our team said during the decision process: The potential to tackle early diagnosis is vital and a mobile prostate biopsy & scanner unit and raising more awareness will go far to achieve this. Being socially connected online will enable Plymouth Twestival to really help raise awareness to a new generation.

So have a look at the video, see why we’re doing it - then use the buttons at the top of this page to make a donation to our appeal and buy tickets to come and join in the fun– you’ll be helping to save lives!

Thank you

On the 24th March, to aid this years Plymouth Twestival, why not join us at Jolly Jack's Bistro for an informal, relaxed, and lazy lunch?

Jolly Jacks have laid on a special 2 course menu for us, with a choice of 3 delicious main courses and 3 mouth watering puds.

• Slow Roasted Belly of Pork, apple and sage mashed potato, braised red cabbage and red wine jus
• Jolly Jacks infamous Fish and Chips
• Chicken Breast, roasted vegetable Penne, with tomato ragu, basil pesto and parmesan

• Chocolate Brownie with chocolate sauces and ice-cream
• Sticky Toffee pudding, butterscotch sauce and ice-cream
• Caramelised pineapple pancakes

If you would like to come along for a friendly lunch, meet some new local ladies, and natter about all the things us ladies love most then book your place, and tell your friends!

Tickets cost just £20, and there are just 20 places available, so make sure you don't miss out! You pay £8 deposit to secure your place from our online ticket shop and this is donated to the Chestnut Appeal. you'll need to pay the remaining £12 on the day, and this will cover the cost of the food at Jolly Jacks.

Shortly after you have booked your place we will email you to confirm your menu choices so that we can pre-order to ensure a relaxed, and fuss free lunch.

We will also be holding a raffle and would like to thank everyone who has donated a prize. We will list everyone as soon as the prize list is finalised, in the meantime, mega thanks for your generosity.

So why are we doing this? To raise money for the Chestnut Appeal. Doing great work to keep those men in our lives around for a lot more years of nagging....erm, sorry, loving ;-) 

If you would like to donate more than £8 to the PlymTwest Chestnut Appeal Appeal we would be very grateful. You can visit our JustGiving page to do just that!

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