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Annual event willoffer career adviceA careers advice organisation is holding its annual
New Year event to help young people aged between 14 and 19 get into work and employment.
Connexions Sandwell will hold the event at Sandwell College’s Central Sixth campus in West Bromwich on January 20 between 10am and 2pm.
There will be around 45 colleges, uni-versities, apprenticeship and training providers and professions including law and accountancy there to give young peo-ple advice.
Councillor Simon Hackett, cabinet member for children’s services said of the upcoming event: “Last year’s event was really successful and attracted more than 1,300 people.
“I urge young people to come along and get advice that could help in making choices about qualifications and careers.”
Parents and carers are also welcome to attend.There will also be a chance to win an iPad for those
who attend.For more information, contact Connexions Sandwell
on 0121 569 2955.
Simon Hackett
High-flyer ready for oarsome challengeReport by Tom Oakley
HE was the last boy to be born at RAF Cosford’s hospital in 1977 before going on to join the force himself.
Now, Fraser Mowlem is taking on the challenge of a lifetime as he works towards the world’s toughest endur-ance race, rowing 3,000 nautical miles across the ocean.
The 40-year-old from Newport is part of a team of four taking on the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2018 in an attempt to raise £100.000 for the British Legion.
The Row4Victory team will start in De-cember in La Gomera, Canary Islands, and finish in Antigua marking 100 years since the end of the First World War.
Fewer people have rowed the Atlantic than have travelled into space or climbed Mount Everest. With storms, adverse weather conditions, hunger and sleep dep-rivation, the challenge pushes participants to the very extremes.
Despite the hard conditions, Mr Mowlem says the team have the world record in
their sights. We want to win our race and if we’ve got good weather a record isn’t unachievable – given the two years worth of training, we’ll be in a good position,” he said “We’d like to raise £100,000 for the Royal British Legion with it being 100 years since the end of the war.
“It will be a nice number come the end of
the whole campaign. There’s been four or five boats rescued in this year’s race, people are getting capsized and there’s been a bat-tery fire on one of the boats. I am looking forward to it but I’m nervous. That’s just going to build and build as time goes on.
“I get more nervous every time people give me money but that’s good motivation.
“I’m not having another drink until I get to Antigua. We’re currently balancing training five or six days a week around full-time jobs.” Before the group can raise any money, they need £100,000 to take part in the campaign and pay for a boat and equip-ment – so far they’ve raised £30,000 from fundraising.
The race could take between 35 and 70 days with the team rowing two-hour shifts in pairs. Previously, Fraser, who has been in the RAF for 18 years and now lives in north Yorkshire, took on a 874-mile chal-lenge running from Lands End to John O’ Groats but admits Row4Victory will be much tougher.
The father-of-two added: “The better we can do then the more money we can gener-ate for the British Legion.
“It costs about £100,000 to do the cam-paign but the more awareness we raise the money it will generate for charity.
“It’s all fundraising at the moment and one sponsor even donated £15,000. In the same race one team raised £660,000 for their charity which is the race record for fundraising. It would be great to get as much as possible.”
Fraser joined the RAF when he in 1999. . For full details or to donate go to row4vic-tory.com or email [email protected]
Mr Mowlem is taking on the challenge of rowing 3,000 nautical miles across the ocean
BRIEFINGE&S
A group that has saved countless lives through its fundraising efforts is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year – as one of its founding members receives an MBE.
The League of Friends of Bridgnorth Hospital will celebrate its landmark year after being formed in 1958.
It comes as vice president Margaret Veal was awarded an MBE in the New Years Honours for services to the com-munity.
Plans are already in place to mark the occasion with the group planning to work towards funding new X-ray equipment for the hospital, as well as a family quiet room.
Margaret, also known as Frances,
found out by post that she would be given the MBE – a pleasant surprise for the 85-year-old.
She said she loved helping the Bridgnorth community.
“I knew a couple of weeks before it was publicly announced that I was get-ting an MBE,” she said. “I found out by post. I had a letter from the cabinet office – that was a lovely surprise. I was very honoured. You get something out of it and it helps the community. I absolutely love being part of the Bridgnorth community. I’ve lived in Bridgnorth all my life.”
As vice president of the League of Friends, Margaret was part of the founding members who carried the
group from strength to strength six decades ago.
Sue Burrows, of the Friends group, said: “Margaret has done an extraor-dinary amount of work raising funds for the hospital and has held various positions on the committee.
“She continues to play an active role within the organisation regularly at-tending meetings, helping out in the coffee shop and manning stalls at vari-ous events throughout the year.
“The MBE is very fitting recogni-tion of her dedicated commitment to Bridgnorth Hospital.”
She added: “We would like to ex-press our appreciation to everyone who has supported our fundraising efforts.”
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