Bingo and Obama
Category: Bingo
Gala Bingo is a fantastic bingo site that looks after its loyal players and the community as a whole. Gala are always coming up with exciting bingo games to raise money for their favourite charity which is the Sue Ryder Care charity. Gala aim to raise a whopping £1million by 2010 and they are well on their way to achieving this. Earlier in 2009 to celebrate the fact that the United States where getting a new black president, Barack Obama, Gala launched a brand new bingo promotion called Obama Bingo.
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Gala teamed up with Mr Obama’s step mother, Mrs Kezia Obama to help raise money for the Sue Ryder Care.
The promotion started on February 23rd and ran until the 1st March. The game were played in the City Room every night between 8pm and 9pm. For every £1 that a player spent on the game, 10p was donated to the charity.
Mrs Obama is a keen bingo player and plays at her local bingo club as much as she can. She grew up in Kenya but relocated to the United Kingdom to be near her daughter. During the Obama Bingo promotion a whopping £10,000 was raised and Gala doubled the amount in good faith to £20,000. The chairperson of Gala Bingo and Mrs Obama, presented a cheque for £20,000 to the chairperson of Sue Ryder at one of their hospices in Henley-on-Thames.
Gala bingo continue to strive to raise more money for their favourite charity with more inventive bingo games. Obama Bingo certainly proved to be a huge hit with its loyal bingo players and they raised a huge amount for a well deserved charity.