Mecca Bingo is not only a leading online bingo site but also has the best offers for its players. Online players at Mecca Bingo have a very good chance to win a VIP trip to the dazzling Las Vegas just by playing bingo at the site this August. One lucky winner get to fly out to Vegas, stay at the Caesars Palace, get a chance to see a spectacular much talked about Vegas show followed by a scrumptious dinner. To be in running for the Las Vegas trip all you need to do is to play 5 Slot Games on the online bingo site in a single day and each time you do so you will gain one entry into a prize draw for this amazing and memorable trip.

Remember that you may enter this promotion more than once but entries are limited to one per day. This promotion will close on Thursday August 27th when the winner will be drawn at random from all the entries. The lucky winner will be announced on August 28th either through an email or during chat. The winner will fly out on 21st October to Las Vegas for a 6 night’s trip. So start spinning right now to win the fantastic offer and do make sure your bags are all packed for the trip.

In case the winner cannot be contacted in 7 days, a new winner will be picked. Note that the prize only includes flight tickets and arrangements for stay and entertainment but does not include travel insurance or travel money.

Only registered Mecca Bingo players can avail for this offer. Registering at Mecca Bingo is easy and first deposit gets double as soon as you have spent it on the site. Register and start playing to get onto that plane to Vegas!

Written for www.londonbingo.co.uk by Irene

Mecca Bingo has launched a new campaign to convert old coins and left over foreign coins from a holiday  into much needed funds for young wheelchair users. The fund raising campaign is called ‘The Currency for Kidz scheme’ and aims at encouraging people to bring any old or foreign coins to the bingo clubs at Brookdale Place, Chester or Marina Drive, Ellesmere Port the club. These coins will then be donated to Mecca’s charity of the year, Whizz-Kidz.

Bernie Dullaghan the general manager of Mecca Harlow said: “Whenever you come back from a summer holiday it always seems like you have a pocket full of leftover foreign coins. The banks won’t take them but, until the end of September, we’re accepting any foreign or old coins as a donation for Whizz-Kidz – all money raised will go to deserving kids in the region.” 

Indeed, this is a novel way of getting rid of foreign coins picked up on trips abroad and at the same time you are doing your bit for a wonderful cause. Your little help will go a long way to support the independence of young wheelchair-users in local communities.

Ruth Owen, said: “We are absolutely thrilled with the enthusiasm and inventiveness of all Mecca Bingo team and club members in raising money to support young wheelchair-users’ independence.” She further appealed: “Disabled children stand virtually no chance of getting a powered wheelchair on the NHS. Through Mecca Bingo’s funding of powered and manual wheelchairs and training, more children now have the opportunities previously denied them. Please help us raise even more money to make real differences to young lives.”

Mecca Bingo has been dedicated to fundraising for young wheelchair-users in local communities.  Last year Mecca raised more than £280,000 for Whizz-Kidz. The fundraisers are confident of much more in 2009. Visit the Mecca Bingo site to learn more.

Written  for  www.londonbingo.co.uk by Irene.

Weekends are fully loaded at Mecca bingo.  Saturdays is the buy one get one free day -  BOGOF day where you get one ticket free for the purchase of every single bingo ticket. If you make it a point to play bingo at the Dancing Queen room from 10am to 10 pm then you will get more free bingo and lots of chances to win at the Mecca Bingo. The week end fun spills over to Sundays as well. Every Sunday you get to play bingo absolutely for free for an entire five hours.

To enjoy the weekend bingostic fun all you need to do is to log on to the Dancing Queen room where there are free bingo games every five hours. The jackpot amounts at this bingo games keeps on increasing until they reach the 100 per game. If you are new to the Mecca Bingo site then you will receive a whooping 200% of the sign-up bonus. This applies to all first deposits from £5 to £25. The moment you have played through your deposit you will get double your money back.

While you are there you should check out the other fabulous promotions being offered. Also, to get a sense of the vibrant Mecca Bingo online communities do have a look at the bingo jokes begin doing rounds on the site. These jokes have been sent by bingo players themselves and you can share some too. Here’s one to tickle your ribs: People say you have to stay in shape. My grandmother started walking 5 miles a day from when she was 60. She’s 97 today and we don’t know where the hell she is!

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Written for www.londonbingo.co.uk by Irene

Mecca Bingo has been fundraising for a wonderful cause – to help young wheelchair users to be mobile. The site in partnership Whizz-Kidz - a charity for helping disabled children to lead a more independent life, has come up with a novel idea that will turn peoples’ unwanted mobile phones into cash and the money in turn will support the independence of young wheelchair-users in local communities.

The fund raising venture appropriately termed ‘Mobiles for Mobility’ requests people to bring their old mobile phones into Mecca bingo clubs any where in the UK, and the recycled funds-raised goes to Whizz-Kidz. As spokesperson for Mecca Bingo said: “The Charity partnership with Whizz-Kidz is something we’re really proud of at Mecca as the feedback from both team members and customers has been extremely positive. National campaigns such as Mobiles for Mobility are a great way to bring all of the clubs together to work towards a common goal but at the same time make a difference to the local communities in which we operate.”

Chief Executive of Whizz-Kidz, Ruth Owen, added: “We are absolutely thrilled with the enthusiasm and inventiveness of all Mecca team and club members. She added that disabled children stand virtually no chance of getting a powered wheelchair on the national health scheme and now this will be possible through Mecca Bingo’s funding of powered and manual wheelchairs and training. More children now have the opportunities previously denied them.

As part of the ‘Mecca Wheel Difference’ campaign, Mecca clubs across the UK had managed to raise over £286,000 in 2008. Well done Mecca Bingo! The fundraisers are confident that they will definitely achieve the same level of success in 2009 and continue to make a real difference to young lives so that they can lead an active childhood.

Written for www.londonbingo.co.uk by Irene

 Bingo Birthday greetings to Sally Melia our star Mecca Bingo player from Knotty Ash in Liverpool. She turned 103 and celebrated her birthday in true bingo style when friends and staff threw a surprise party complete with hundreds of cards, a cake, and balloons at her local Mecca Bingo club. Sally has been a regular at the Liverpool club since she was 60 years old and can easily claim to be the oldest known bingo regular in the Mecca Bingo group.

Sally was born in 1906, and worked in her youth for tailors Roberts and Bromley, and during the war s at a Royal Ordnance factory. She retired at 65 in 1971 as a school cook. Sally has lived through two world wars and raised seven children, ten grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. She has been a member of the bingo hall in East Prescot Road, Knotty Ash for 43 years.

Sally has been visiting the Mecca bingo club once a week. “She looks forward to her bingo every Saturday”, said her son Bill who accompanies her on these visits. The manager of Mecca Bingo club, Steve Linder added: “Sally is as fit as a fiddle and more active than some people 30 years her junior, she is the queen of this bingo hall and deserves to be treated like Royalty.”

Here is what the birthday girl and the celebrity Mecca bingo player has to say about her favourite activity: ” I don’t know what I would do if I could not get down to the bingo, it keeps me active and you meet some lovely people. One of these days I’m sure I will land the big Jackpot”. Now that one spirited bingo player.

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Written for www.londonbingo.co.uk by Irene

You must have been following the story on the I’m Backing Bingo” campaign to fight against UK government’s decision to continue with the 22% bingo tax . Bingo halls are worried that If the bingo tax increases above 15 percent then their clubs may get closed. The amendment to lower the tax rate from 22 percent to 15 percent was outvoted by the Parliament during the last week.

This decision continues to be meet with determined protests from Bingo hall enthusiasts. A a part of the ongoing protest, as reported by the Daily Star newspaper,  a group of bingo fans  uniquely expressed their anger and disappointment at the Government. They apparently knitted “voodoo” dolls representing Alistar Darling’s face as he hiked the tax on their favourite game and then fixed sharp pins into voodoo dolls. This was carried by   the member s of the Chester Bingo club members. In this context Margaret Knowles, 73, said: “Alistair Darling is stabbing people in the back. Now we want him to know how it feels.” About 90 bingo clubs have closed in Britain in the last three years and Margaret fears theirs could be next. Bingo fans simply wants the government to “Keep bingo tax at 15%, the same as other forms of gaming such as the football pools, the bookies and online bingo and casinos and fail to understand why bingo halls are being singled out for a tax hike.

Bingo is one of the oldest games in the world and a favourite pastime across the UK played both at land  bingo halls and online site both of which double up as social. Closing down Bingo halls /sites would also put an end to a popular form of social interaction.

As you must be knowing, leading this protest is non other than Mecca Bingo the UK’s leading bingo provider . To affirm your support for this cause do  visit http://www.backbingo.com/

Written for www.londonbingo.co.uk by Irene