Saturday's fundraising event was a chance for local supporters to meet up and share a superb dinner, and to bid for lots donated by local people and businesses. As well as salon treatments and meals at popular local pubs and restaurants, the fossil cake attracted gasps of admiration, and there was keen bidding for some unique local offers, including bee-keeping, a tractor ride, a private tour of designer gardens, and autogyro flying. Once the sums are done the event will have raised almost £1,800! This will launch the campaign's CrowdJustice Appeal in a week's time. I want to send a huge thank you to the talented, generous local cooks who fed everyone royally, to local businesses who supported the event (names below), and to everyone else who offered their talents and skills in imaginative, one-off offers which together have raised this amazing amount. And very special thanks also to the hard-working team who made it all happen behind the scenes and on the night! Local people have supported the campaign to Protect Wicklesham Quarry from Development for three years through thick and thin, and stepped up every time they have been asked for help- leafleting, coming to meetings, and donating money, dishes, and auction lots. I can never thank you all enough. With your help, and the support of a fantastic legal team - barrister Pavlos Eleftheriadis of Francis Taylor Building and solicitor Linda Felton of Fortune Green -we have made it all the way to the High Court. Wicklesham Quarry SSSI raises important issues - for environmental protection, and the strength of Local Plan policies designed to protect landscape, biodiversity and geodiversity; for the National Planning Policy Framework's provisions for the restoration of mineral workings; and for the role of neighbourhood plans in the planning system. The Judicial Review will raise all these issues and more. It will be a landmark case for communities seeking to resist neighbourhood planning being seen as a way of "getting round" the planning system, and who reject the assumption that mineral workings are a legitimate backdoor to industrialising the countryside. The new CrowdJustice Campaign will be announced in the coming week. The campaign to Protect Wicklesham Quarry from Development wishes to thank local businesses: The Bell Hotel, Faringdon The Old Crown, Faringdon The Eagle, Little Coxwell The Viceroy Tandoori Restaurant, Faringdon LushLooking Cakes, Faringdon The Snooty Mehmann, Littleworth Hare in the Woods, Faringdon The King and Queen, Longcot The Woodman Inn, Fernham The Treatment Rooms, Shrivenham Belaviso Hair and Beauty Salon, Watchfield Emma Hudson, Osteopath, Fernham