Category Archives: Amovate Events

Amovate & Vdt Golf Society Christmas Party – 12 December

Tickets for this event will be on sale soon from the usual Committee Members.

Vale da Telha Restaurant Doors open @ 18.30 hours

Welcome drink on arrival :-
Sparkling white wine
or
soft drink
or
mint lemonade

Starters on the table as a couvert. This is not just bread and olives but other delicious tapas.

Soup – Canja da Galinha (This is a chicken type soup)

Main Course :-
Bacalhau com nata with cubed potatoes
FOLLOWED BY
Roasted turkey slices with roast potatoes, veg and gravy

Dessert
Various on offer

Coffee

After dinner drink

All other drinks other then the one on entry and the one after dinner drink to be paid for separately.
All courses will be served at the table.

The price for the event is €22 per person for Members of Amovate & the Golf Society…….all others €24

Music will be provided by Collar & Cuffs.

Portuguese Night – 31 October

The Portuguese Night at Restaurant Vale Da Telha

Once again Amovate stages it’s Portuguese night at José’s Restaurant, the Menu is as follows:

Starters:-

A selection on the table as usual
Main Course :-
Bacalhau à Bras
with fried potatoes (not chips !) and green salad
OR
Roast pork with potatoes and roast carrots
Desert ( there will be a selection available )
Coffee

The Evening starts at 19.30, with the main course being served at 20.00
Main course choice to be made when the tickets are purchased.
Carlos Agapito will be performing a selection of both Portuguese music so you can all practice your dance routine, as well as popular music for the more timid amongst you.

Tickets are available from Monday 12^th October, 2015 from the following people, Steve Scott, Ian Bedford, Kate Lang, Chic Wilson and Dave Ogbourn

Ticket Prices: – Members €20 & Non-Members €22

Amovate Masterchef – Photographs

Great Entertainment was the label given to Amovate’s first Master Chef as Johnny Wilson purred through the afternoon before the food tasting.

Three dishes had been prepared, Bacalhau with cream and fresh shrimp (Bacalhau com nates com shrimp), Pork Ragu and Chicken, Coconut and Peanut curry and rice.

The voters’ choice was the Portuguese dish and Maria Mauritty and her sister were worthy winners. All three teams received bottles of wine for their efforts, and the evening entertainment continued with an Irish and Rock theme that had people on their feet dancing the night away.

Thanks go to Antonio for allowing the event at his restaurant and Jose from Restaurant VDT for loaning some equipment.

Now to look forward to the next Master Chef when lessons learned will hopefully ensure all leave full and contented.

Below, is a selection of photographs from the day.

Amovate’s Family Fun Day Helps A Family In Need

Amovate Raises Funds For A Severely Disabled Boy

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Diego Messias Pedrosa

Amovate’s Family Fun Day has helped to make the life of a family with a severely disabled child just a little easier.

Some of the funds raised from the keynote event have been used to buy all of the fittings required for a new wetroom for two year-old toddler Diego Messias Pedrosa who is suffering from cerebral palsy.

Diego lives with his great grandmother in Burgau and she has been having immense problems dealing with Diego’s basic daily needs like bathing and feeding.

The toddler is said to be a happy little boy despite the severity of his cerebral palsy, and the fact that he has to spend a lot of time in hospital.

The family, according to reports, receive no support from the Portuguese government and Diego’s great grandmother, who also works at the Esquina restaurant in Burgau to help support him, faces a constant struggle to obtain the specialist equipment he needs.

Diego’s medication alone costs €80 per month and the equipment he needs is not only to ensure that Diego is safe and comfortable but also to aid his great grandmother with day-to-day activities like bathing and feeding.

So, Amovate stepped in, and with €198.31 of the funds raised at last month’s Family Fun Day, we have purchased all of the fittings required to convert his grandmother’s bathroom into a wet room.

The firm Raminhos & Raminhos just outside of Lagos from whom we bought the items also donated all of the tiles required along with the adhesive and grout.

Amovate was responding to an appeal launched in June to raise money for Diego and we felt it fitting that our Family Fun Day could help a family in need.

Campaigners are now trying to raise the cash for a specialised pushchair tailored to Diego’s needs but which costs in the region of €5,000.

Natasha Seromenho who is spearheading the fundraising efforts, along with Louise Chamberlain who is also deeply involved with fundraising, says: “Diego’s cerebral palsy is severe. He cannot hold his heads up, he cannot stand and until now doctors have been unable to say whether he will be able to walk at any time in the future.

“He is approaching his third birthday and cannot talk although he makes a few sounds which suggest he trying, although again only time will tell.”

Anyone wishing to make further donations should contact Natasha’s PayPal address (used only for donations for Diego) at:

natasha.seromenho@hotmail.com

For those of you who don’t use PayPal.IBAN:

PT50 0033 0000 45464443007 05 and swiftBCOMPTPL. Bank is Millennium BCP.

ENDS

Amovate Masterchef – 2nd September

Masterchef comes to Vale da Telha!

The final announcement about Amovate’s first ever master chef competition.

The events committee have now chosen the three chefs to cook off, for hopefully 60 plus ticket holders on Wednesday 2nd September.
From the list of budding chefs, the committee have been able to choose three teams all headed by different nationalities. This should bring three sample dishes with a difference, and with a wide choice of ingredients available here in Portugal, who knows if the dishes will have the flavour of Portugal, China, Germany, India, Hungary; there are so many choices.
Tickets go on sale today and you can purchase these from, Steve Scott, Ian Bedford, Kate Lang, Rick Hursthouse, Dave Ogborn and Chic Wilson.
Priced at €5 this is a reasonably cheap afternoon out. Enjoy tasting the food, Antonio’s hospitality and music with Johnny Wilson throughout the afternoon and evening.
Make sure you bring your ticket as this is not only a voucher for the food, but also a voting slip.

For all those still unsure what this is all about hopefully this will clarify the situation.

3 Teams will cook a taster meal of their choice at their home (all teams having the same amount of money for food supplied by Amovate) and these will be served one at a time to ticket holders at the event. When all 3 meals have been tasted people will vote on what they judge to be the best and the winner wins a prize.

The afternoon should be good fun and at least you won’t have to cook when you get home.