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Malmesbury School Raleigh Expedition to India 2011
Final details for the Horseless Team Event at Badminton - Sunday 3rd October @ 11am. Meet at 10am at the course.
Horseless Event Sponsor Form available. Click here to download.
Hello everyone,
Thought I had better confirm details for Sunday in case any of you were unable to attend the meeting in school last Friday. So, here goes:-
1. I need all of you to email me on Thursday night and let me know the total you have raised and, therefore, the amount that you will be donating to the Rotary Club's charities (i.e. 50%). No problem on getting more sponsors on Friday or Saturday - it's only to provide Rotary with some estimate of what we have raised.
2. I am then going to get to the event early on Sunday and queue at the registration and give the details on everyone's behalf. I thought this would be preferable to twenty of you queueing and registering individually. If everyone emails me it will also be a confirmation to me that everyone who will be coming has received this information. You do not need to bring your sponsor money with you. Hopefully, you can start collecting it after the event and let me have half via Tracy Copson in the Student Office at school. (Hope this is okay with you again Tracy). These are the people I hope, unless informed otherwise asap, will be attending:-
Miss Walker
Miss Garnett
Mr Elton
Fran Badham
Imogen Carss
David Cooke
Alex Copson
Chess Fearnley
Ellen Fitzgerald
Bethan Gwynne
Rob Hinwood
Nicole Hitchings
Sian Hughes
Barny Kenny
Harriet Pettit
Rosie Pettit
Julia Smith
James Steel
Harry Sutcliffe
Ryan Walker?
If any of these are your friends or are in your forms could you check that their email addresses appear in the list above. If not, please make it your job to let them know that they need to email me and give them the times etc that I am about to give you.
We should all aim to meet at 10 o'clock at Badminton with the actual race starting at 11.00am.
Directions: From Malmesbury take the B4040 through Sherston to Acton Turville. At Action Turville turn right, signposted Badminton. You should already have started to see signs to direct you to the Event.
Park and then head towards the main meeting, registration, refreshment area.
Eilmer the Elephant should, unless the damp has caused him to disintegrate, be an easy thing to find.
If any of you are thinking of wearing fancy dress and wish to enter the competition, it is being judged at 10.30. If anyone is a serious runner and actually wants to compete this to win, make yourself known and you can get together with other more serious runners and run as one group. For everyone else I'm sure that a combination of running, jogging and walking will be fine. Keep in mind that this event is on grass, perhaps through shallow water and potentially mud. Please wear appropriate footwear. If you don't fancy wearing fancy dress I think that your Raleigh T-shirts will be the most appropriate thing to wear.
Does everyone have transport to get there. Please email if you have any problems, I'm sure that lift sharing would be a good idea.
There are probably more things that you need to know, so please email me and ask. Or send a general email to everyone as they might be wanting to know the same thing as you and we can get it sorted together. Remember that you are entering as Malmesbury School's Operation Raleigh Trip to India TEAM.
Have a great time.
Steph Carss
and Imogen
I have at last received the race numbers - you will need safety pins to attach them to your shirts so PLEASE bring some.
Stephanie Carss
Previous post on the event:
Stephanie Carss writes:
"I have registered four teams. One of adults (Miss Walker, Miss Garnett, Mr Elton, Lewis Dawson and Harry Pettit) and three of younger folk (Imogen Carss, James Steel, Chess Fearnley, Julia Smith, Bethan Gwynne, Ellen Fitzgerald, Hannah Farci, Alex Copson, Rosie Pettit, Sian Hughes, Fran Badham, Barney Kenny, David Cooke, Rob Hinwood and Nicole Hitchings). The entry fee, which I have paid, is £48 for the adult team (sorry Lewis and Harry I didn't think that you could pass for 15) and therefore the cost per person will be £9.60.
The other 15 of you are in teams made up mostly of 15 year olds and the cost is £20/team and therefore only £4 each. I hope this okay. I think you ought to deduct the cost of your entry from the sponsor money before you declare your total amount as 50% of all the money you raise goes to the Rotary Club's charities. At this point I think I should direct you to the Rotary Clubs website so that you can have a look at the terms and conditions for yourself. http://www.rcsc.co.uk/
As a bit of an aside, I think that the charities that the Rotary Club are supporting this year i.e. Wiltshire Air Ambulance, Cotswold Care Hospice and Wiltshire Mind are all brilliant and very worthwhile charities but, if you are being sponsored by your Granny or your Aunt who might really want all the money to go to you and not our local charities it might be a good idea to set that sponsorship to one side for one of the events later in the year where you will get all of the money raised for yourself. Having said this, it is a great event, it is a really good exercise to get involved in fund raising of other charities as you never know when they might help you.
As I have said I have paid for all the entries so far. I would really appreciate it if everyone could take into school, within the next week or so, their entry money, in an envelope with Stephanie Carss, c/o Tracey Copson in the school office who has kindly agreed to collect the envelopes for me."
Stephanie Carss (stephaniecarss@hotmail.com)
Offers of any help to Graham Cooke on 01666 822596.
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