Congratulations to Pip Phillips who raised £224.57 yesterday afternoon by entertaining Broughton Street businesses with a mixed repertoire on the harmonica ranging from Blues to Opera with everything else in-between.
Pip is the marketing manager at Real Foods, so he knows a thing or two about getting messages across at one end and money out at the other.
His scheme – ‘Harmonica or Humbug’ – was simple. A donation of £5 bought the recipient a tune and a jingle of the charity box. A donation of £10 secured the priceless gift of silence and a rapid exit from the premises.
All proceeds raised were going to the not-for-profit social enterprise Social Bite, which arranges £5 dinners for the less fortunate at Christmas and on into the New Year.
Pip’s lifelong trip on the harmonica began as a boy with a gift from his father. He bought his own Chromatic at the age of 13 and has not looked back since. He now travels with a variety of instruments to fit every tune and occasion (see below).
Spurtle thinks his tour of Broughton Street was an excellent idea, brilliantly realised. For goodness sake, he even colour-coordinated his clothes and satchel sign.
Who will step up next to musically extort the area's other festive shopping streets for a worthy cause?
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