WEST NORFOLK WOMEN’S RUGBY CLUB 2ND ANNUAL “SUPER 10’S” TOURNAMENT
THE CHICAGO ROCK CAFÉ SUPER 10’S
1st and 2nd May 2004
ITINERARY (subject to changes)
Friday 30th April 2004 (Not compulsory)
Arrive at Hotel, B&B, Campsite or West Norfolk Rugby Club to set up camp.
Meet at The Orange House, Norfolk Street, King’s Lynn @ 8pm Welcome and a few drinks, Games, maybe a song or two, etc. Walk over the road to Chicago Rock Café meet the sponsors and dance the night away.
Saturday 1st May 2004
The Morning free to do what you like. Some teams arrive. Arrive at West Norfolk Rugby Club and register by mid-day. First matches kick off at 1pm. Rugby throughout the day till 5pm
Evening Entertainment starts at 7.00pm at West Norfolk Rugby Club. “Coyote Ugly Theme” Dress to Impress. Disco till late. Price £2 per person
Sunday 2nd May 2004
Morning Free to recover from the night before. First matches kick off at Mid-day
Rugby throughout the day till 6pm. Tug of war challenge throughout the day
West Norfolk Men’s Under 30s v West Norfolk Men’s over 30s v Ex West Norfolk Men’s
Presentation of Awards at 6pm. Charity Auction 6.30pm in aid of the Wooden Spoon Society and Lynn Hospital Breast Cancer Unit. Evening Entertainment Starts at the Orange House, Norfolk Street King’s Lynn With special Drinks promotions. Then it’s over the road to Chicago Rock Café, Norfolk Street, King’s Lynn. Theme..... Your own Rugby Club Colours (Be Proud).
Most Entertaining Team Award Presentation @ Midnight in Chicago’s.
Monday 3rd May 2004
The House on the Green, North Wootton King’s Lynn Presents:
The West Norfolk under 16 Girls SUPER 7s.Teams Register by 11am
First Matches kick off at midday and Presentation @ 6pm
Goodbyes and see you next year.
Charity Auction
Sunday 2nd May 2004 6:30pm at West Norfolk RUFC in aid of
Breast Cancer Unit, Kings Lynn & The Wooden Spoon Society.
We are doing an auction on the Sunday Evening (2nd May) to raise money for the local hospitals Breast cancer unit and Wooden spoon society. The breast cancer unit is something close to my heart as my aunt died a few years ago from this and as my biggest and proudest supporter I feel this is my chance to do something.
The EDP Breast Cancer Appeal, launched in November 2003, aims to raise £200,000 to create a special unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn.
Breast cancer facilities at the Queen Elizabeth are spread around the site and too cramped for the rapidly growing number of patients who use them. Anxious patients have to share a waiting room; there is no counseling area near the consultant’s rooms and conditions are desperately cramped, hot and uncomfortable.
“At the moment there’s no spare capacity within the Breast Cancer Department so if we have a busy day or a patient falls unwell, there is nowhere they can go to recover,” said consultant radiologist Geoff Hunnam. “Between the different stages of the process, patients currently have to pass through many different wards to reach the facilities, which can be extremely distressing.”
Although the lengths of waiting lists are not dissimilar to those nationally, in 2002, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital breast cancer unit saw 1636 new patients with 187 diagnosed with Breast Cancer. A 5% increase is expected each year and referrals have doubled in the past eight years, a further indication that suitable facilities are vital.
Space has already been identified for a dedicated, purpose-built unit at the hospital. It will have three new consulting rooms, a counseling area, waiting room, separate X-ray facilities and changing rooms.
Once it opens the whole process from screening through diagnosis, counseling and treatment will be faster and less traumatic for thousands of patients. Without this appeal, those patients would have had to endure years of difficult conditions before the unit would have been considered for funding.
The appeal was launched on November 14, 2003, with the aim of starting work within 18 months.
Appeal supporters
Among those who have backed the appeal is actress Claire Goose, radio presenter Becky Jago and Anglia TV's Becky Mantin.
In backing the appeal, Casualty actress Claire, who is a West Norfolk GP’s daughter, has told of her own scare when she discovered lumps which eventually proved to be negative. “Having experienced something similar myself, I can understand how important it will be to have this unit set up,” she said. “Having the practical and compassionate help under one roof is absolutely vital.”
Becky Jago (Anglia TV, BBC Newsround, and Capital Radio) lost her mother to the disease, at the age of just 54. “I am very proud to be associated with this campaign and I’m pleased that the EDP has picked up on the need of thousands of women in this area,” she said. “I hope the people of East Anglia get behind it and raise the £200,000.”
The EDP’s appeal partners are Rotary clubs across the region, as well as radio station KLFM 96.7 and the Norwich & Peterborough Building Society who are kindly enabling people to pay into the fund at their offices.
Matthew Bullock, chief executive of Norwich and Peterborough Building Society said: "We're delighted to be supporting the EDP with this very worthwhile appeal. As a local, mutual building society we feel it is very important to support those in the communities where we have branches. A dedicated breast cancer unit at King's Lynn hospital will be invaluable to women in the area who are affected by the disease and to their families and loved ones."
EDP Editor Peter Franzen asks all readers to support the appeal: “This fund will give the hospital the kind of unit which is already standard in all other main hospitals in the region.
“Breast Cancer patients in West Norfolk surely deserve the kind of facilities and care, which the new unit will provide. Please help us to help them.”
People across the region are being asked to get involved with fund raising activities and there is a fund raising pack available for individuals or groups. For more information call Laura Devlin on 01553 777622 or email laura.devlin@archant.co.uk
Wooden Spoon Society
Celebrating 20 years of supporting disadvantaged children and young people
£8 million distributed to projects for children and young people, 1,200 organized events and 20,000 ties worn, all in the last 20 years and all achieved by volunteers working on behalf of Wooden Spoon Society.
It all began on that fateful day in Dublin on March 19th 1983 when England’s Five Nations season ended in disaster with defeat by Ireland leaving them languishing at the bottom of the table.
A group of English supporters were presented with a Wooden Spoon by their Irish compatriots to mark this historic occasion. On returning home the proposal to play golf for the spoon attracted the interest of fellow English supporters. 127 people attended that golf day at Farnham and by the end of the evening £8450 had been raised. The funds were cashed in for a minibus purchased for the Park Special Needs School in Aylesbury. And so the charity was born.
Over the last 20 years the number and variety of events have increased as have the number of supporters and participants. Spoon now has patronage from the four home unions and royal patronage from Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal.
Today there are 30 regional committees and three national committees, Scotland, Wales and Ireland and more than 9,000 subscribing members. It has become a national charity but one working very much at a local level. All funds raised locally are spent locally with national fund raising supporting theses funds £1 for £1.
Our strength and purpose however have been to convert the funds derived from our rugby and other activities to benefit children and young people disadvantaged in life.
We have supported work that takes on cancer, cystic fibrosis and autism. We have tried to have a positive impact on disability in all its forms and comforted the sick and needy whenever we have been able to do so; we have assisted children and young people who are disadvantaged socially, physically or mentally
We have met all these foes with good humour and much enjoyment. We have created events and activities that have challenged our physical frailties and made great demands on our sporting and social prowess. We are driven by a collective ambition to see Wooden Spoon Society continue to grow in stature and thereby continue to have a positive impact on disadvantaged children and young people throughout the United Kingdom.
In this our 20th Anniversary, we aim to celebrate in style and in doing so we hope to raise more funds for our regional projects.
Items for Auction include
A Signed St Georges Flag by the England Women’s Team from Shelley Rea
Tickets to the Women’s 6 Nations matches Next Year from Rosie Williams RFUW.
A Signed Martin Johnson Autobiography by the man himself, from Tetley
A Signed Gloucester Rugby shirt, A Signed Saracens Women’s Shirt
A family ticket to a Zurich premiership match next season.
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