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Iʼve raised £1,510 to help raise funds 1st Samford Scout, Cub and Beaver group for a much needed trailer & storage solutions for their kit by swimming the channel
- Holbrook, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK
- Funded on Saturday, 3rd November 2018
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1st Samford Valley Scout Group has a growing number of Beavers, Cubs and Scouts and long may this continue. The Scouting movement provides an inclusive environment for young minds to experience and explore life - to overcome challenges and to make new friends. We need resources to do this, and have a dwindling store of kit which needs enhancing and protecting for future Beavers, Cubs and Scouts! In fact the kit has only just been recovered from a variety of different locations from all over the peninsular! We desperately need a storage solution and a transport solution to facilitate camps and trips.
Scouting helped shaped my young mind and I have been a volunteer for the last 12 years - all three of my children have benefitted from it hugely from making friends with owls to overnight camps, boat building, knotting skills, baking, racing, face painting, first aid, survival skills and live video links with cubs and scouts from across the river and the rest of the world. I want to make sure every child has the opportunity to experience the same! A little investment at this stage will benefit generations to come.
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- 6 years ago
henry mayes
6 years agoBack on dry land!!! What an adventure. 40 miles in total in 14.39 hours. Some heroic swimming towards the end saw us swim against a huge spring tide - bet you all saw the moon last night! Amazing team effort. Thank you all for your amazing support - this means a huge deal to the kids and future generations of kids that will have their lives enhanced through the Scouting movement. More to follow - typing hurts!
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- 6 years ago
henry mayes
6 years agoSo with the impending storm travelling up from the west and another weather front following it, we are very unlikely to be crossing for the next 6 or 7 days... anything above 15mph is difficult and current conditions are 40 and increasing! So we are trying to keep a lid on our nerves for another week!!! Your donations are overwhelming - thank you all so very much - this will have such a positive impact on the lives of the children in our community.
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- 6 years ago
henry mayes
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47
steven barker
Oct 25, 2018
Well done that was a great effort and I enjoyed the photos and video....... almost made me want to do it......NOT!
£100.00
Crystal Fahy
Oct 2, 2018
Well Done Henry!
£10.00
Chapman Consulting
Oct 1, 2018
Great work Henry - best of luck
£30.00
Karen Osterley
Sep 29, 2018
Amazing work Mang. Certainly did your best! Well done!
£20.00
Anonymous
Sep 28, 2018
WELL DONE A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT
£100.00
Anonymous
Sep 27, 2018
Congratulations. We can now relax againMum & Dad
Lorraine Bull
Sep 25, 2018
Good Luck Henry- (Dave says steer clear of the sewage pipes!) Love the Bulls xxx
£50.00
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henry mayes
Holbrook, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK
I'll be swimming the channel in a relay on 16th September with 3 of my pals to raise money!!