Fundraisers helping a local football club pay a shockingly high electric bill are close to hitting their target.
Carlton Town revealed last month that after submitting a meter reading, they received a bill for a whopping £8714.03 (including VAT).
Millers supporters have come out in numbers with a massively successful fundraising campaign raising thousands in the last number of weeks.
Last week the club confirmed on their website that fundraising has passed the £6,000 mark.
Mick Garton and Barry North started the fund with £1,000 each closely followed by Gilbert Wealth £500 and Russell Scanlan £500.
This was followed by the club raising £500 on a football number card, an anonymous donation of £250 and another donation of £250 from Simon Rood.
Lymns the funeral directors have contributed £300 as well as a £500 donation from a branch of the Nottingham Forest Supporters Club.
Kelly Mitchell also set up a Go fund me page which has now raised £920 of the £1,000 target and donations can be made HERE
A quiz night at the William Gunn raised over £400 on June 5.
The club have also stated that there have been a couple of smaller but valuable donations at the ground.
The clubs website has aannounced that Carlton Town Chairman Mick Garton was asked to attend a debriefing at the Navigation Pub on Meadow Lane following the Notts County v Juventus Supporters Match at Stoke Lane at the end of the season and was surprised and delighted to receive a donation of £200 towards the horrendous energy bill.
The club believes that the donation from the Notts County supporters means that they should raise enough to bring the fundraising to a conclusion will the full bill covered if Kelly’s fund raising target reaches it’s target of £1,000 (now on £920) and the forecasted income from the planned Sports day is achieved.
Commercial Chief Gary Clarke can be contacted on 07907 064189
The latest statement and news can be read on the Millers website HERE
