Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity – Dinner & Dance

Posted by Niraj Popat on Aug 9, 2009 in Commercial, Event | 4 comments

An evening of dinner and dance, held at Masti Banqueting, in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital Childrens Charity was held on the 28th of March 2009.

Initially, the venue had been booked to seat 200 people, but as the tickets were sold out in under 48 hours the organisers had to quickly respond to the massive interest and stretch the venue capability to it’s bursting limit of 350. All tickets were all sold out in less than 10 days, for what was to be one of the best fund raising parties of the year.

- The catering and decoration were all taken care of by the venue staff at Masti and organisers (the Shah family)
- The videography was provided by the guys at Zee TV, for their regular Sunday morning slot show ‘Out & About‘ – the local community show.
- Secondary videography and entertainment was provided by the guys at the BBC, for their hit series ‘The Real Hustle‘.
- and last but not least, the photography was provided by yours truly, Niraj Popat.

Who are they?? Well…

The Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity is a registered UK charity, that raises funds through all types of events, to continually recycle, renew and implement new and inventive ways to take care of sick children. The charity needs at least £50m every year, for these works to reliably and effectively continue supporting children and parents each and every day. You can read more about what they do, and how they do acheive their goals by visiting their website.

Masti Banqueting, is a newly refurbished venue in Wembley, Middlesex (North West London), created by the driving force of their hugely successful bar and restaurant entrepreneurs. The venue has been designed with the state-of-the-art lighting, sound, and visual technology, to provide a stunning backdrop to all types of events where people are invited to enjoy themselves. They have a large kitchen that caters for the guests to the venue.

Zee TV, as most will be aware, is a Satellite broadcast TV channel, for the Asian population. They cover all sorts, from fiction, game shows, reality tv, good living, through to non-fiction. The elder Asian generation appear to be (from my experience) addicted to these channels, and captures a large volume of viewers each and every week. The ‘Out & About’ show, is filmed  throughout the UK, to allow the couch potatoes, to keep up with what’s going on in and around the local Asian communities. The Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity – Dinner and Dance, was broadcast on Zee TV on the 19th of April 2009.

The BBC is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. Its mission is to enrich people’s lives with programmes that inform, educate and entertain. It is a public service broadcaster, established by a Royal Charter and funded by the licence fee that is paid by UK households.

The Real Hustle is a factual entertainment series produced by Objective Productions for BBC Three. It features a team of hustlers – Alexis Conran, Paul Wilson and Jessica-Jane Clement – as they try out some notorious scams on members of the public, filmed with hidden cameras. The aim is to reveal how scams work so that the viewer can avoid being ripped off by the same con. The participants featured in The Real Hustle have either been set up by their family and friends or believe that they are participating in another television programme. After they have been hustled for real any monies or property taken during the hustle are returned to them and their consent for the item to be broadcast is obtained. (as stated on their webpage)

The Real Hustle, were invited to the Dinner and Dance, to provide entertainment for the guests in such a way that they were secretly able to raise a phenomenal amount of money for the charity.
I’m not going to give away how this was acheived, because it will all be on their show which is due to be aired on BBC Three this month August 2009.
There’s a few images on here, that will relate to the show, and all will make alot more sense when you watch it!!

Oh and the photographer… that was me

I thought It would be nice to share some of the photo’s from the evening, so here they are.

For those who are awaiting their printed images, they will be in the post in the next week or so.
(I hope you can accept my sincerest apologies for the extreme delay it’s taken me to get these organised, rest assured, they have not been forgotten).