Dear Supporters

316 POWERED WHEELCHAIRS DONATED DURING THE PAST 30 YEARS

Welcome to the first edition of Helsby Golf Club’s “Powered Wheelchair Appeal” Newsletter.

Even after our 30th Birthday has been and gone, we are still trying to find better ways to tell you what, both we as a committee and our many generous support-ers are doing on behalf of our Charity.

We hope you find it interesting and informative.

Let us know what you think.

Also, any ideas for raising money or improving events would be really appreciated

Alan Lee

Chairman

Letter from our Chairman

What have we achieved?

316 powered wheelchairs for de-serving youngsters

Fundraising for 30 years

Equivalent of £1.2m raised

Voted ‘Champion of Champions’ by the Trinity Mirror Group & Scottish Power in 2011

Helsby is the most successful golf club in the Peter Alliss Masters Crusade

Inside this issue:

Letter from our Chairman 1

Achievements to date 1

Wheelchair Classic 2

Spring Dance 3

MEGA Day 3

Forthcoming Events 4

Supporters Fundraising 4

A bit about us

The Appeal was founded in 1983 by members of Helsby Golf Club to raise funds to buy a powered wheelchair for Hilary Kenyon, a deserving child with special needs.

The Appeal is now run by a committee of volunteers from the Golf Club.

All the funds raised go towards the purchase of wheelchairs for local children in the North West. Operating costs are kept to an absolute minimum.

The Appeal became a registered charity in 2007.

One of the founding members, Bert Dyson, is still actively involved on the committee and has been awarded an MBE for his services to children.

The Appeal is part of the Peter Alliss Masters Crusade which raises funds for powered wheelchairs for children throughout the UK.

Helsby Golf Club Powered Wheelchair Appeal

September 2013 Issue 1

Registered Charity No. -1118510

Our 1st Chair in 1983

Our main fundraising event, the Wheelchair Classic, took place on Thursday 13th June. We were joined by the Man-chester United legends Frank Stapleton, Stuart Pearson and Jeff Wealands who together with author David Wilson played in the golf tourna-ment and presented the wheelchairs to 5 excited youngsters.

Although the weather was not good, a great day was had by all with 164 competitors playing in the golf competition.

In the evening our Cap-tains, Brian Prince and Jarmila Lee together with our legendary guests and sponsor Chris Lind-ley presented wheel-chairs to Aaron Lambert from Northwich, Liam O’Neil from Beswick Manchester, Joe Blease from Middlewich, Jason

Brotherton from Barnton Northwich and Courtney Taylor-Hayhurst from Widnes.

This was followed by the presentation of the tro-phies to the winners of the competitions.

The charity auction in the evening was a very lively affair run by Kieran McCabe from the Forest Hills Hotel, Frodsham ably assisted by Steve Cunniffe from Helsby.

31st Wheelchair Classic

Helsby Golf Club and our other supporters who played in the competition and brought bottles for the tombola and other prizes

Ian Alderton, who trav-els from Norfolk each year, who donated a superb golf bag from the 2010 Ryder Cup for our Special Raffle

All those who helped on the day including

Dave Nagle, Brian Prince, Keith Ainsworth and Mal Dewsbury as well as the committee members

Kieran McCabe who did a magnificent job running the auction

And last but not least, all the following local and not so local businesses that provided the prizes for the competitions, the raffles and the auction.

Our thanks go to all of the following, without you we would not be able to raise the money to help so many youngsters with special needs

Helsby Golf Club for the use of the course and the facilities

Chris Lindley, Manag-ing Director of Jigsaw Law , this year’s event sponsors

All the members of

“Thank you all so much for funding my wheelchair which has given me the independence to get around college. Now I can get around with my friends a lot easier and faster.”

Courtney Taylor-Hayhurst

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Helsby Golf Club Powered Wheelchair Appeal

Winners of the Men’s Trophy

Chris Harrison & Neil McLeod

From Thwaites

Winners of the Ladies’ Trophy

Janet Richards & Val Pritchard

From Helsby

OVER £16,500

RAISED

FDL Group Tesco Stores, Helsby Chelsea Football Club

Jigsaw Law Ideal Gardens, Helsby Everton Football Club

Palmers Jewellers Post Office, Helsby TaylorMade

Crown Carpet Warehouse Serenity for Beauty PING

Electrod UK Ltd The Make-Up Room Titleist

Forest Hills Hotel Boodles, Chester Motocaddy

Robert Gleave & Sons Chris Cousins Golf, HGC Footjoy

Frodsham Brewery The Brickwall Hotel, Sedlescombe Cars & Bikes

Perfect Floors & Interiors Golf House Club Elie Paws and Claws

CK Charles Craw’s Nest Hotel, Anstruther AK Design

HE Coward Vauxhalls, Ellesmere Port Grove Fisheries

Lusso Hair Thwaites Brewery Martin Stoneley Tiling

Alan Hunt Catering, HGC Chester Golf Centre Junction 8 Tile & Stone

The Spring Dance was held on 16th March. The Flaxmere Ceilidh Band provided the entertain-ment for a very enjoy-able evening where the dress, the food, the decorations and the

dancing followed the Irish theme. By the end of the evening everyone, even the President, was on the floor joining in the Ceilidh.

We presented our 309th Powered Wheelchair to

Angel Haydn aged 11 from Winsford who is severely disabled and attends the Russett School in Weaverham. She came with her Nan Linda, who looks after her, and her Dad David.

Golf Tournament

The sun shone and the course was in superb condition which led to some great scores in the golf competition.

The winning team was -

Brian Stott, Marcus Lightfoot and Neil Johnson from Helsby with Bryan Kramer from MEGA.

The runners up were -

Dave Harries, Paul Crombie, Neil Graham and Reg Bowden (MEGA).

We were pleased to see that visitors to the club went away with the prizes for nearest the pin and nearest the line; Richard Brown from Warrington GC and Paul Staunton (MEGA).

We have welcomed Paul to the club for a number of years as the organizer of the MEGA players but Richard is a new supporter of the Appeal joining us at events for just 12 months. We hope to see him on future occasions.

A great time was had by all and the day raised £2,000 for the Appeal.

A Spring Dance with a Touch of the Irish

MEGA Day—A Right Royle Celebration

On 7th August, Helsby Golf Club hosted the supporters of the PWA who were joined for the 12th year running by members of MEGA (Merseyside Entertainers Golf As-sociation) for a fun day of golf fol-lowed by an evening of entertain-ment provided by the stars of MEGA .

Special guest Ricky Tomlinson of ‘The Royle Family’ fame helped our Captains, Brian Prince and Jarmila Lee, present wheelchairs to Jordan Duke from Prenton and Connor Webb from Widnes, bringing the total number of chairs donated over the last 30 years to 316.

Jordan has just left school and is hoping to take up an opportunity offered by Everton FC as an ap-prentice learning how to be a coach for disabled people. His new chair will give him the freedom and inde-pendence to be able to do this.

Connor is also sports mad and last year won the Young Sportsperson of the Year for Widnes which was presented at the Rugby Ground.

Ricky then compered a superb evening of laughter and music with the renowned comedian Mick Miller, vocalist and guitarist Gary Murphy and singer Joe Wall. The music duo the Chimes rounded off the evening with music to dance to.

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Issue 1

The Winning Team

Chairman Alan Lee - 01244 300308 Appeal Secretary Penny Ainsworth—01928 723817

Email - poweredwheelchairappeal@gmail.com

Forthcoming Events

Black & White Evening - Our next event is the to be held on Satur-day 7th December 2013 at Helsby Golf Club. This is a fun evening with everyone wearing black and white with a touch of red. There will be a meal followed by entertainment and dancing. If you would like to attend, please put your name on the list on the Golf Club no-tice board in November or contact Penny Ainsworth, Appeal Secre-tary.

The Chinese Banquet will again be held at the Fortune Palace Res-taurant in Delamere on 19th January 2014.

The 8th Annual General Meeting of the Powered Wheelchair Appeal will be held at Helsby Golf Club on Thursday 6th March 2014. All supporters of the Appeal are welcome.

Dates for next year:-

Spring Dance – Saturday 26th April 2014

Wheelchair Classic – Thursday 12th June 2014

MEGA Day – Wednesday 6th August 2014

Black & White Evening – Saturday 6th December 2014

Helsby Golf Club Powered Wheelchair Appeal

The Merseyside Electrical Traders Association holds a charity golf tournament each year. They have been kind enough to donate the proceeds of the event to the PWA for the last few years and this year we received a cheque for £3,000. Our thanks go to Roddy Snedden of Electrod UK and the other members of the Association for their generous support.

The Moore Foundation is a charitable trust set up by Moore Finance of Warrington to provide financial support and practical relief to local children’s charities and worthy causes. The PWA has been the recipient of support from the Trust and in July a fur-ther cheque for £2,500 was presented to Alan Lee, Chairman by Nigel Garner, Chair-man of the Foundation at their annual charity golf tournament held at Warrington GC. We would like to thank Nigel & his team for their continued support.

The Aqueduct Marina at Church Minshall held their annual Boaters Bash and Family Fun Day on 20th & 21st July. Each year the owners, Robert and Andrea Parton, choose a different charity to support over the weekend. This year Anya and Geoff Harris rec-ommended the Powered Wheelchair Appeal as we had presented a chair to their son James in 2002. They now have a narrowboat at the Marina, which has been adapted to enable James to spend time on board in his wheelchair. They had a great weekend in the sunshine and raised £1,009.50 for our Appeal. Our thanks go to all those in-volved.

Our thanks also go to

Steve Jervis and the staff at DHL in Preston Brook who raised £247.50 by running raffles in the offices. A further £247.50 was received from the DHL UK Foundation through their Match It! Programme which matches the fundraising efforts of their em-ployees.

The Corporate Division of the NatWest Bank based in Warrington for their cheque for £250 which was presented to Helsby Golf Club Captains, Brian Prince and Jarmila Lee, by Alex Walters at the Wheelchair Classic in June.

Many congratulations go to Gareth Dyson who completed the 3 Peaks Challenge in Wales in July in the great time of 12 hours, raising over £100 for the Appeal.

Fundraising Events by Supporters

We are on the Helsby Golf Club Website—visit the Powered Wheelchair

pages on www.helsbygolfclub.org

Roddy Snedden

The next Edition of the Newsletter will be in the Spring 2014. If you have any suggestions for what you would like to see, please let me know. Penny Ainsworth, Appeal Secretary.