Yeovil’s Last Night of the Proms raises more than £6,000 for local charities

Yeovil Rotary Club’s Last Night of the Proms concert raised £6281.66 for local charities.

More than 300 people attended the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil for the annual event, which has been sponsored by Yeovil accountants and financial planners Old Mill for the past three years.

The main benefactors of the concert, which featured soloists Jeni Bern and Andrew Forbes Lane with Greg Arrowsmith as conductor, were St Margaret’s Somerset Hospice and the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance; both charities received cheques for £2850.

A further £800 was donated to local special school Fairmead which will go towards funding a sensory garden for the children.

Paula Hodge, partner at Old Mill, who hosted a drinks reception prior to the show and had around 70 guests at the event said “It was a really fantastic evening. Not only did guests enjoy a first-class concert, but also raised almost £6,300 for very worthwhile local causes.

“Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance gets no Government help so is funded by charitable donations. It goes out to rescues on average, four times a day, which costs around £1.4million a year. The money raised from this concert will fund it for a day, which could potentially save four lives.”

L-R Nick Pearce, Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance, Paula Hodge, partner at Old Mill, Mike Streatfeild president of the Rotary Club of Yeovil, Sally Harrison, Chartered Financial Planner at Old Mill and Frank Spurr, Rotary Club of Yeovil.