11:20am Wednesday 10th March 2010
By Sarah Cosgrove
PUB staff are gearing up to play doctors and nurses to raise money for a charity which looks after sick children.
Admiral Byng in Potters Bar, is part of the J D Wetherspoon chain, which has pledged to raise £250,000 this year for Clic Sargent at the London Marathon - £500 per branch.
The charity looks after children and young people with cancer.
Many staff members are competing in the gruelling race but the staff at the Potters Bar branch said they preferred to fundraise closer to home.
They are holding a medically themed day and evening fundraiser on March 27 at the Darkes Lane pub.
Duty manager Caroline Crang, 20, said: “We want lots of hustle and bustle and lots of things going on. We'll have little games and maybe some wheelchair racing and we'll have charity boxes going round.
“There may even be a bed for our patients should it all get too much.”
Plans for the night are still in the early stages but Miss Crang, of Sunnybank Potters Bar, said there were two certainties, that there would be a charity auction and that she will persuade all the male members of staff to dress as female nurses.
Medical student Engin Durust, 20, (pictured alongside Miss Crang) is not so sure. He said: “I'm studying at London Metropolitan University to be a doctor so I think should dress as a doctor, I have the white coat and stethoscope at home.
“But I suppose I should learn what a nurse's role is so I can appreciate them when I qualify.
Judging his manager's bandaging skills, Mr Durust, of Hertford Road, Edmonton, added: “I don't know if this would help if I was really ill but it was a nice try.”
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