# Jewish Care's Bridge Extravaganza awarded Guinness World Record

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/12/04/jewish-care039s-bridge-extravaganza-awarded-guinness-world-record/
- Published: 2012-12-04T11:57:34+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Bridge Extravaganza, an annual fundraising event for Jewish Care, has achieved
a Guinness World Record for having raised the most money, cumulatively, for charity
by an annual bridge tournament.**

The Bridge Extravaganza has raised £1,223,838 for the charity between 1997 and 2011.
That figure has now been surpassed: this year’s event attracted more than 240 players
to the Landmark Hotel in Marylebone yesterday and raised a further £70,000.

The money raised by the event supports the “from Home to Home” project, transporting
people to Jewish Care’s centres for people living with dementia.

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The Bridge Extravaganza has been run by the Bridge Committee who have been together
from the beginning. The committee is made up of Patsy Bloom: Co-Chair, Susan James:
Co-Chair, Loretta Burns, Adèle Goldstein, Jenifer Rosenberg OBE, Arlette Shamash,
Nathalie Shashou, Rosalyn Springer, Ghita Tarn and Shirley Young.

Patsy Bloom, Bridge Committee founder and co-chair said: “It gives me the greatest
pleasure knowing that we have made a real difference to so many lives. It just goes
to show what the game of bridge can achieve."

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