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Friday, May 18, 2012
Welcome!
The North Carolina EastEnders fan club consists of hundreds of avid EastEnders
fans from across the state. We get together several times a year to share our enthusiasm for
Albert Square. We have meetings here in the Triangle (Raleigh/Durham) area as well as clubs in Western North Carolina and Charlotte.
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NC EastEnders Fan Club to BBC: Thank you!
NC EastEnders Festival 2012 Recap(Club secretary Linda Fineman wrote this recap of our night at Festival.)You've had to wait a full week to hear the final results of EastEnders night at Festival, but I hope you'll agree that confirming these numbers was worth the wait. We're delighted to announce that not only did we meet UNC-TV's goal of $40,000, but we surpassed it with a grand total of: $44,897!! This happens to be the 2nd highest amount in our 15 years of pledging for EastEnders. Since 1997, our fan club has been volunteering during Festival and raising funds for our favorite show. The highest total ever was $47,347 in 2006, so we came very close to breaking our own record. This year we had five pledge breaks for EastEnders. It's a remarkable experience to hear phones ringing off the hook close to midnight on a Sunday night, when the rest of the population is peacefully tucked in bed. NC EastEnders fans kept giving and giving, and the numbers are truly impressive. Here's the breakdown:
How do we do it? The simple answer is YOU, the fans, who are dedicated and generous beyond measure. We also owe our success to the volunteers who staff the phones at Festival and represent our club with pride. We are fortunate to have the support of a great team at UNC-TV, along with the incomparable on-air talent of Julia Carpenter, Claire Meyerhoff, and Dave Horne. Emilie de Luca was unable to join them this year, but she electrified the evening with a $3,000 on-air pledge matching challenge. This year we had a deluxe selection of thank-you gifts for contributors. For the first time ever, we even had authentic costumes from the EastEnders wardrobe department, courtesy of Julia Carpenter. All of our $1,000 pledge items—clothing, signed script, and autographed magazine/cast card—were sold. In addition, we owe a huge thank-you to Debbie Gilbert and Larry Jaffee, who year after year provide us with outstanding EastEnders merchandise. Their products were big hits this year, bringing in thousands of dollars. Our thanks also to Mel Saunders and Brooke McCray for donating the script and magazine, respectively. Kimmerly Payton, of UNC-TV, is our tireless ally in providing appealing pledge gifts. We will be welcoming 44 fans to the UNC-TV studios for a special screening (program TBD) on May 11. You can still buy tickets to this exclusive event by visiting UNC-TV's donation page. We'll also be screening an EastEnders special at our club lunch meeting, which will be held later this summer. More news on that to come. We are very proud and deeply grateful to all of you for achieving such amazing results on EastEnders night. Beyond that, we're thankful for your company and friendship—both online and in person. Here's to another great year of viewing and dishing about our beloved show!
Cheers, 
more photos... The E20 Chronicles: A New Book About EastEnders to Benefit Children In NeedAnnouncing the E20 Chronicles Book to benefit Children In Need!
This is an 80 page book, full of fabulous interviews with EastEnders actors, writers (and even a producer) and it is now available on-line, and all of the profits go to the BBC's Children In Need telethon. It is available in both the US & the UK.
To preview and/or buy this fabulous book, just click on this link: It's a fun read for a great cause: All of the interviews are EXCLUSIVE to the E20 Chronicles, and not available anywhere else. I transcribed these interviews with as little editing as possible so that the personalities of the actors really come through. Click on the link to see the preview, and see in the Table of Contents the who's who of who is included. When creating the E20 Chronicles magazines for PBS, everyone on the EastEnders cast and crew that I encountered was so nice, that I thought it would be a nice way to say thank you, for their support of PBS, by raising funds for Children In Need, a terrific organization that EastEnders supports. That is why this book was created. We hope you'll all support Children In Need by buying this book. But it's not just a good deed - you'll also be getting a great, unique EastEnders book! We've gotten great feedback from Elstree for the E20 Chronicles, including from a producer who said he learned things he didn't know! *At The E20 Chronicles, our mission is to use our love of EastEnders to help non-profit organizations. We create and publish this entirely as unpaid volunteers, underwriting the pre-production costs so that 100% of the profits will go directly to Children In Need. To find out more about Children In Need, please visit their website: www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey Please order yours today & enjoy! Thanks Easties! Debbie Gilbert @E20Laundrette
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