SULTAN Indian restaurant hosted a charity night to raise funds for Wiltshire Air Ambulance following the medical treatment they gave to a Melksham teenager.
Last month 19-year-old Luke Dark was involved in a road traffic collision on Sandridge Hill before being air lifted by the air ambulance to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol. As a way of recognising the important role played by the air ambulance, friends of Luke’s family organised an event at Sultan to raise money.
The charity night was well attended with over 30 people buying tickets to the event to support Luke and the air ambulance. A raffle was held with prizes donated by local businesses including Andy York Photography, Candy Jacs, CJ’s, Gaming Galore, Mark Giles photography and Collins. In total £250 was raised from the raffle and the Sultan restaurant raised this figure to £515.
One of the organisers Sue Horton said, “It was a fantastic evening and we are really happy with the amount raised. We are very grateful by Sultan’s incredible generosity in raising the total. We would also like to thank all the local businesses who donated prizes for the raffle and those that attended and supported the event.
“The Wiltshire Air Ambulance do so much good work and we know they are vital to those that need treatment. Without this service Luke probably wouldn’t be here, so that shows how vital it is”
Jemma Brown from Wiltshire Air Ambulance said, “We would like to thank everyone and Sultan for raising this incredible amount of money. We rely solely on donations and the support we receive like this is invaluable.”
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A column about days gone by in Melksham by local historian Lisa Ellis
The Independent Chapel and Women’s Rights in the 1840s
A document I recently transcribed lists the baptisms performed at the Independent Chapel. This record is especially helpful in that, along with baptisms, a lot of them include birth dates - one of the ways I discover which day someone was born.
The following is taken from a Wiltshire Times article published on 9th November 1878 which reports a speech given during the 100-year services and to celebrate their renovations (what we now know to be the Rachel Fowler Centre).
One speaker, Rev. T. Mann, minister in Trowbridge, talked about the Chapel’s origins when he related how Rev. Honywill came to Melksham and how he’d gone on to remain as the minister for the Independent Chapel for almost 60 years. [Honywill and his family lived on King Street in what we now call “Legion House”.]
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A column about days gone by in Melksham by local historian Lisa Ellis
The Independent Chapel and Women’s Rights in the 1840s
A document I recently transcribed lists the baptisms performed at the Independent Chapel. This record is especially helpful in that, along with baptisms, a lot of them include birth dates - one of the ways I discover which day someone was born.
The following is taken from a Wiltshire Times article published on 9th November 1878 which reports a speech given during the 100-year services and to celebrate their renovations (what we now know to be the Rachel Fowler Centre).
One speaker, Rev. T. Mann, minister in Trowbridge, talked about the Chapel’s origins when he related how Rev. Honywill came to Melksham and how he’d gone on to remain as the minister for the Independent Chapel for almost 60 years. [Honywill and his family lived on King Street in what we now call “Legion House”.]
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