Buoyed by their first victory since 1976, ten members of the Boxford Boars Cricket Club are undertaking the Three Peaks Challenge on 7th-8th June 2013 to raise money for local charity, Swings & Smiles. This challenge, greater than any they have faced on the cricket pitch, involves ascending the three highest peaks in mainland UK within a 24 hour period.
Swings & Smiles was founded in 2007 to raise sufficient money to build, equip and run a recreational facility for children with special needs and their families. Now comprising both indoor and outdoor facilities, Swings & Smiles promises to be a welcoming, bright, fun and safe place that is busy all year round, and somewhere families can go together to share experiences and be able to support one another.
This is the story of how this challenge came about...
Buoyed by their first victory since 1976, and swollen by their continuing celebrations, members of the Boxford Boars Cricket Club (a Panamanian Foundation operated from Liechtenstein) have risen to an even greater challenge than usually confronts even them when faced by anything more than 6 able-bodied opponents on the cricket field. The Boars are undertaking the Three Peaks Challenge on the 7th-8th June 2013.
Members of the Club - large and slightly smaller - have invoked the spirit of Shackleton through the medium of the Club's ouija board (which doubles as a score book) which has been disinterred after many years from under a pile of protectors in the kit bag. Given the number of children still being sired by the Boars, the manufacturer's claims for those protectors might be considered exaggerated. That aside, in a seance, well attended by both the living and the less youthful members of the squad, recently held near a darkened Pole at the rear of Stag Inn, Leckhamptsead (Ange - that plug must be worth extended credit on the kitty) the Boars were encouraged to throw themselves into the Three Peaks Challenge which involves ascending the three highest peaks in mainland UK within 24 hours. Despite urgent counsel to embark only on short walks and to remain within striking distance of the pub from a spectre who could not be clearly identified but whose name sounded like Tight or Titus, The Boars have risen to the Challenge and now enlist your support and help.
Oh, yes - the principal purpose is of course to raise money for a wonderful local charity, Swings and Smiles. We throw ourselves on your generosity (with considerably more agility than we have ever exhibited in the field) and would ask you to give us, and Swings and Smiles, through your sponsorship, as much support as you can. Our target, which we hope is not as unrealistic as that which we set our batsmen, is to raise £4,000, if at all possible. If we can raise anywhere near that, and survive the Challenge, it will be another glorious day in the Club's history. Our thanks in advance.
