Clic Sargent is Children's Cancer Charity,
recently, I had an e-mail from Loiuse Oakley, who is the Events Fundraising
Manager for the South West and South Wales,
Good afternoon,
I am hoping you may be interested in our Kick for Children with Cancer
campaign, through which you can help CLIC Sargent make a difference to the
lives of children with cancer in the UK through football.
Kick for Children with
Cancer runs from May - July 2010 and is a nationwide initiative that encourages
schools, groups and youth football clubs across the country to organise their
own football themed fundraising events in support of children with cancer,
whilst getting active and healthy.
CLIC Sargent, the UK’s
leading children’s cancer charity, is expecting 100,000 young people to take
part in events this spring/summer ranging from penalty shoot outs to £1 to Play
tournaments. The charity provides a free event pack with everything event
organisers need to hold an event, including fundraising tips, advice on how to
get publicity for the event, sponsor forms and materials to promote their
event.
I was hoping you may be
able to support this years World Cup campaign through your ‘Soccer School’? It
would be great to work along side each other throughout the summer to support
children with cancer but to also increase awareness of your Soccer School
through local media relationships and existing CLIC Sargent supporters.
I would love to have the
opportunity to meet with you to discuss any possibilities of working together
this year. Whether its support throughout the whole summer, for example charge
£1 extra to each child registering for the school and donate to CLIC Sargent or
you could have a focus on the campaign for one week or even a day. We would do
everything we can to recognise your support in ways which can benefit your club
within the local community.
For more information on Kick for Children with Cancer or CLIC Sargent,
please contact me on 01173 148605 or visit the website www.clicsargent.org.uk/football
where you can also register, for free right now.
I look forward to working with you
Kind regards,
Louise
Louise Oakley
Events Fundraising Manager - South West and
South Wales
So, I thought, I am bound to be able to help out in some way, anyway, I
asked the following people who kindly donated the following sums of money, all
donations were counted with a witness present,
The Families of a recent five day course I ran kindly
donated
£ 29.00
The Families of a recent Soccer For Tots Course I ran kindly
donated £ 21.00
The Families of RSS/Swansea City D C U 6 and & 7's kindly
donated £
80.00
The Families of the Soccer Sunday's U 7's kindly
donated
£ 62.00
I have rounded the above figures off
I am going to kindly donate
£ 58.00
Total
£ 250.00 (to Date)
Four Beauties and the Beast, from left to right, Ella, Iestyn, Niamh and in the front, Harry aka " H " holding cheque for £ 250 kindly donated by all the kind people above, the beast at the back is myself.
I then thought, I am bound to be able to do more, so here is where, I
have to thank Darren
Wilce ( Manager of Playfootball Swansea ) because I went
to Darren with a small fundraising idea and between us, we have made the idea a
lot bigger and hopefully raise more money for CLIC Sargent.
The Idea, here goes
Playfootball,
CLIC Sargent Charity Football Festival
in Association with
Reeco's Soccer Schools
The
day was a massive success thanks to a lot of kind people who put
themselves out to help raise money and awareness for cancer in
children, we even had a very nice warm summers day to make it even more
special.
I have to thank so many people .
Firstly
Darren Wilce ( Manager of Playfootball ) for kindly letting us have a
fantastic facility to make this fundraising event possible, I also have
to thank Mark, Jamie, Laura who were Darren's staff yesterday who
always work very hard. Darren and Jamie raised £ 121 by way of a test
of skill, kicking footballs through a scoring zone, I have to say this,
I personally watched a very talented young footballer Corey ( Torres )
Woods, score maximum points out of three shots and when you consider
Corey is an Under 6, it made it more impressive, Corey is better now at
his age, than his Father ever was, sorry Mark but the truth hurts lol.
Nigel, Debbie and Tasha of A Touch Far Vetchedfor kindly donating £ 35 by way of selling copies of A Touched Far VetchedNigel also kindly donated, 10 training footballs and 10 training bibs and a free training session, topic of coaches choice.
Dai Cullen Coach of Lonlas Colts, won the above prize.
I
also have to thank my Wife, Claire and Ingrid Nicholls for handing out
the fixtures and collecting team entry money which was £ 260 from 26
teams, Claire and Ingrid also raised a further £ 154 by way of selling
raffle tickets, I know a lot of wise men say, behind every good man
there is a better woman, how true that is, thanks Claire and Ingrid.
I thank all the coaches, players, parents, all family and friends for supporting the fund raising event.
I thank Tony Avo and John Beale Swansea City for attending and keeping their finger on the pulse, in the younger age groups.
I thank Gavin Wright of Gavin Wright Photography for kindly taking so many quality action pictures.
All proceeds are going to CLIC Sargent.
The final total for the day was
£ 570.00
A Big Thank You To Everyone
"It
is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out howthe strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could
have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually
in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,
who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and
again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming,
but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who
spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows,
in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the
worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who knew neither victory nor defeat."
