Royal Mail Letters – North East Region

As an area they decided to have a ‘Mince Pie Monday’ before Christmas. You can see below some fine efforts for the cause, there were 786 mince pies sold, 24 sausage rolls, 6 big sponge cakes, and lots of sponsorship for a combined total of £523.05.

The top performer individual fund raiser was Karen Dando, her mum made all the pies and she spent the whole day dressed as a Christmas cracker!

Most units averaged between 1/2 a pie to 1 pie per person, except Horncastle and Retford. Gary at Horncastle managed to sell 3.6 pies per member of staff ( thanks to Gary's mum ) that may have had something to do with the amount of pies he asked his mum to bake , I understand there was a bit of buy 1 get 3 free ! going on.

Top pie seller without doubt was Donna and the team at Retford. The staff there managed to sell / eat a whopping 4.9 pies per person.

The most cash was raised at Lincoln where a whopping £314 pounds was raised, very good use of costumes and sponsorship by Karen. I also think Karen's mum deserves some recognition for agreeing to make so many pies for such a large office!

Staff at Lincoln and Retford raised £1.20 per person but the most per person came from Horncastle where they raised a fabulous £1.50 per member of staff.

 Alford - 12 Pies sold - £6 excellent start to the campaign 

Retford - 279 pies - £ 70 - Very creative effort use of blow up snowman and used a retired chef to bake the pies! A brilliant campaign by all of the team good work.

  Louth  - 24 Mince Pies - £43.05 - Also creative , sold 24 sausage rolls and 6 big sponge cakes ( stewards enquiry has been lodged with regard to local challenge , there is a view from the judges that use on non standard Christmas food is an unfair advantage !!) I understand that some of the customers at Louth also got involved and baked a few cakes. So many cakes to eat, brilliant effort from Sarah and the team!!

Lincoln - 210 Mince pies - £314 - Really good idea of dressing up and raising sponsorship monies to dress up as a Christmas Cracker, can anyone top that! That's just a great marketing trick. well done to the team, I understand that next year they want the DOM to dress up as a pudding!

Market Rasen - 42 mince pies - £ 23 donated, super effort.

Mablethorpe - 21 pies sold - £21 donated, good work from the East coast team

Horncastle - 108 mince pies - £27 - Excellent piece of determined selling from Gary, sales picked up when buy 1 get 3 free was introduced.


DSM - Challenge - 90 mince pies donated - £30 - 151 miles travelled to every office on the day. Some nice snow on the way round which made the day just that little but more festive.