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Benefit is a formal, candlelit template built for charity galas, fundraising dinners and annual benefit evenings. A restrained serif hero pairs the event name with the date, venue and a live fundraising-goal bar, while an "about the cause" section, impact statistics, an hour-by-hour programme and three giving tiers carry guests from invitation to RSVP. Warm gold reads against deep aubergine for an unmistakably black-tie tone.

Candlelit and black-tie — gold lettering on deep aubergine, hushed and generous.

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MThe Marigold Benefit
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M
The honour of your presence is requested

An Evening
for the Tide

✦

One candlelit evening to fund a year of clean water, warm meals and restored shoreline for the families of the estuary.

Saturday, the Seventeenth of October · Two Thousand & Twenty-Six
The Lyceum Ballroom · Harborgate · Black Tie
$612k raisedof $750k goal
82% of the way to a fully funded year · 308 guests already seated
About the cause

A single evening that funds the whole year

The Marigold Foundation works along forty miles of tidal estuary, where rising water and falling catches have left fishing families without steady food or clean supply. For eleven years, this gala has been the night that carries the mission forward.

Your seat pays for meal boxes, well repairs, marsh replanting and the small grants that keep a family afloat between seasons. It is, quite simply, where the work begins.

14,200
meals delivered to coastal families each month
38
fishing villages reached along the estuary
92%
of every dollar spent directly on programmes
11
years restoring the tide and the people on it
The evening

Programme for the night

Doors open at six. Black tie. The carriages are called at midnight.

✦  Running Order  ✦
6:30
Champagne reception & silent auction preview
The Conservatory
7:30
Guests seated · welcome from our chair
Grand Ballroom
8:00
Four-course dinner with the harvest menu
Grand Ballroom
9:15
Live auction & paddle raise for the estuary fund
Hosted by Marguerite Vance
10:00
Founder’s award & a word from the families
Grand Ballroom
10:30
Dancing & dessert under the chandeliers
The Gallery
Reserve your place

Three ways to give

Every seat is a gift to the estuary. Choose the place that suits you and your guests.

Individual seat
$350per guest
✦
  • ✦One seat at a shared table
  • ✦Reception & four-course dinner
  • ✦Listed in the evening programme
  • ✦Tax receipt for your gift
Reserve
✦✦✦✦
Patron table
· Most chosen ·
$3,500table of ten
✦
  • ✦A reserved table for ten
  • ✦Premium placement near the stage
  • ✦A bottle of reserve vintage
  • ✦Name on the patron board
  • ✦Priority bidding at the auction
Reserve this table
Named sponsor
$12,000evening sponsor
✦
  • ✦Two patron tables for twenty
  • ✦Logo on stage & printed menu
  • ✦Recognition from the podium
  • ✦A private tour of the estuary works
  • ✦Year-round impact reporting
Reserve
With the generosity of

Our patrons & partners

Presenting partner
HARTWELL & ROE
Gold patrons
MERIDIAN TRUSTASHFORD CELLARSVANE & COMPANY
Supporting friends
LULLWATERSTILLPOINTBRINEGARCOLEFAXHOLLIS
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Will you join us?

Reserve your seat, or give from afar

Seats are limited to three hundred and twenty and last year sold out by September. Reserve a table tonight, or send a gift if you cannot be with us in the room.

The Lyceum Ballroom, Harborgate · Saturday, 17 October 2026 · Black tie

Design rules

The system, applied to any site

Every rule below travels with the template — describe your tweaks and the agent keeps the system intact.

What it decides for you

  • Build every surface on a deep aubergine-ink base and reserve warm gold strictly for headlines, rules, the progress bar and CTAs so the gold always reads as gilt, never decoration.
  • Set headlines in a high-contrast serif at a large size with tight leading and let wide negative space and thin hairline borders do the framing instead of heavy boxes.
  • State the cause, the date and the venue within the first screen, and pair the hero with a live fundraising-goal progress bar that names the amount raised against the goal.
  • Keep the body voice quiet and well-mannered: small uppercase letter-spaced eyebrows, sentence-case sans-serif body, and short refined sentences.
  • Lay the evening out as an hour-by-hour programme (reception, dinner, auction, awards) with gold times down the left and a hairline between each entry.
  • Offer giving as three calm tiers — individual seat, full table, named sponsor — with the table tier marked as most chosen by a thin gold outline rather than colour fills.

Ships with

Black-tie hero with date, venue, reserve-a-table CTA and fundraising-goal barAbout the cause with impact statisticsEvening programme (reception, dinner, auction, awards)Giving tiers (seat / table / sponsor)Sponsors wordmark rowRSVP / donate bandFooter

Design tokens

Palette

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text
muted
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Headings

Cormorant Garamond

Body

Inter

Radius

6px

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