The New Directions Team "Girls Out Loud" When we visited the New Directions admin offices we met Bishops Corner Manager and Team Captain Sanchia who described their preparations for the upcoming Dragon Boat Race Festival at Bewl Water on the weekend of September 11th and 12th.
The team have entered to raise money for the Prader Willi Association UK and comes as part of a huge fundraising campaign that Sanchia and sister Philippa have been involved in.
Sanchia explained how their participation in the event came about "My sister Philippa and I raised over £5000 last year for charity running many events including the London Marathon. Unfortunately this year we were set to run the London Marathon for Prader Willi Syndrome but due to injuries we had to pull out leaving us at a lose end.
Philippas husband was in the Dragon Boat Race last year and we both supported him and thought it would be a great idea to build our own Team for this year
Sanchia works for New Directions, a company who has four homes in the area who specialise in PWS and have managed to gather colleagues, friends and family to build a team for the race. Sanchia went on "We are all shapes and sizes and have different levels of fitness" Watch out Bewl water!
Team leader Sanchia (pictured here in white t-shirt) with some of her dedicated team.
We were a little surprised that all the team members are doing their training separately and the first time they will be in a boat together will be for the start of the first race! Watch out Bewl Water indeed!
"No problem" said Sanchia, "we're all camping the night before to build team spirit" Oh - That's OK then!
Girls Out Loud Full Team List:-
Sanchia Home Manager Bishops Corner. Philippa sister of Sanchia and co fundraiser. Alison (cousin), Claire W (cousin), Claire R (sister-in-law), Caroline (life long friend) Lyn, Ann, and Nicola (friends).
Tracey Scott and Lesley Reid, staff at Bishops Way. Donna B, Roxanne and Nancy staff at Bishops Corner. Kim staff at Bishops Lodge.
Louise staff at Bishops Croft. Rachel (sister of person who had Prader Willi Syndrome), Donna, Andrea and Louise (cousins of Rachel).
Subs: Gayle and Nicky (New Directions).
Donations can be made at the girls' own Just Giving Website where they've set themselves a target of £2,000. Click here to see their page.
When we last looked at their page they were ahead of target.
The girls efforts follow on from a successful event at The Clarence Pub back in May described by them here.
Monday 31st May was yet another success at The Clarence Pub in Silverhill raising a grand total of £600. £400 raised on the raffle thank you for all the generous prizes that were donated and a big thanks to Our Dad for selling £120 worth of tickets. £200 was raised on the horse racing, killer pool and the food cooked by Billy and served up by our Mum who much to her surprise only wanted to buy a hot dog and spent the rest of the afternoon stood with Billy who had limited barbeque tools and her with a whopping great carving knife cutting up tiny rolls. Thanks to the a guest appearance from Tamara ,Hastings Carnival Queen 2010. Dave P you worked hard again! and what can we say Terry 'we love you'. GIRLS OUT LOUD.
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