36th Anniversary Dinner raises record amount for charity

Avon Metals Ltd generously sponsored dinner

The MMTA's 2009 annual London Metals Week dinner took place at the Institute of Directors (IoD) in central London and was a sell-out event. The evening repeated 2008's highly successful format of a late bar, a dance floor and live music from "Almost Unheard".

Peter Nicholson, auctioneer

The MMTA is very proud of its fundraising for charity at the anniversary dinners and this year was no exception. At past dinners this took the form of a raffle for a case of wine but, inspired by the silver ingots raffled last year, this year there was an auction of promises.

With promises ranging from a flying lesson to a hike in rural England MMTA members dug deep into their pockets and raised a total of £5645.00 for the Cary-Mufulira Community Partnership Trust, an educational charity with strong links with the town of Mufulira in the Copperbelt region of Zambia.

Anthony Lipmann and chairman Guy Darby with Cary-Mufulira's cheque

This was by far the largest charity donation ever raised by MMTA's membership and comfortably surpassed the previous record of £4500.00 donated at the 35th anniversary dinner.

Special thanks to Peter Nicholson for a commanding performance as auctioneer, Avon Metals for generously sponsoring the dinner and all those who donated and bid for promises.

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