TEE OFF FOR DebRA
DebRA boasts one of the largest charity golf societies in the UK.
With Peter Alliss as our Golfing Society President and 350 members across the country, DebRA organises a range of prestigious golf days each year.
With Terry Wogan's help, Peter Alliss was involved in the launch of Golfing Pals - the first global interactive contact site available to golfers everywhere. Golfers can contact fellow players around the world, arrange a game in foreign countries with a local player, get advice on courses, enjoy reduced green fees when playing with a club member and meet up with and make new Golfing Pals.
The society president, pictured left in a photograph by Chris Twilley, is particularly happy to be involved with Golfing Pals because the organisation is committed to donating 70 per cent of subscriptions to its charity partners - one of which is DebRA.
View the DebRA Golfing Society Fixture List for 2008 here.
END OF YEAR NEWSLETTER (by Heather Chandler)
The second half of our golf programme commenced on 23rd August with a second visit to Swinley Forest Golf Club. We had twenty-four players who thoroughly enjoyed the day with rather changeable weather, raising £2,280 for DebRA.
Pictured right are winning team members Michael Chatterton, Atul Chavda, Joe Kenny, Graham Forest-Jones.
Our next tournament was held at New Zealand Golf Club. It was a superb sunny day but even though fewer teams participated than last year, the day raised over £1,000 for DebRA. It is a fantastic golf course and hard to get to play unless by invitation so make sure you book early for next year!
Pictured left are winning team members Rick Williams, Peter Beasant, John Collins.
Once again Little Aston Golf Club was a very popular venue which John Duncombe has arranged for the past six years. There were twenty-two teams and the fantastic sum of £17,000 was raised. Congratulations John!
Pictured right is winning team Barwood Developments (Terry Amos, Simon Reine, Ashley Piggott & Steve Caldicott).
After the disappointment of having to postpone our day at Sunningdale on 5th April, the day went ahead on 23rd October with Ian Wright as our guest.
It was a beautiful sunny day and Sunningdale looked fantastic. Ian was in good form and had photos taken with all the teams and, although he had to leave immediately after playing golf due to his radio commitments, it was nice to see him.
There were eleven teams playing and just over £7,000 was raised. Thanks to everybody who attended and we hope this day will be repeated in 2008.
Pictured left is winning team H.J.K (Robert Kirkland, Ralph Jones, Tom Hawkings & Robert Rae with Tom Lohan from Arcos Gardens who presented the prizes).
The last golf day for this season was at Hankley Common Golf Club. A brilliant sunny day with a fantastic turnout of twenty-one teams taking part consisting of members of the Golf Society and their colleagues - £3,500 was raised for DebRA.
Pictured right is the winning team: St. John Cox, Will Lever, Charlie Compton and Domenic Bell. David Mitchell who played in John Scott’s team achieved a Hole-in-One on the 16th - congratulations, David!
Pictured left, is David being presented with a bottle of champagne by Amanda McLean, former Director of Fundraising & Communications at DebRA.
Arcos Gardens Golf & Country Estate sponsorship
We have been very lucky this year with sponsorship from Arcos Gardens Golf & Country Estate who have provided team prizes for the first three teams at four of our golf days in 2007 namely: London Club, Swinley Forest, Sunningdale and Hankley Common.
The first prize consisted of a trip for four people to stay at Arcos Gardens for two nights B&B and playing the Championship Course with flights included up to the value of €150 per person, plus £500 donation at each event.
We hope this sponsorship will continue in 2008 at various golf days. Please look out for these special days.
Stop press...
Charity publication, Third Sector magazine, recently published an article that reviewed the DebRA Golfing Society - click here to read the article.
...and finally
As many of our Golf Society members are aware, I had planned to semi-retire in April - but I'm now staying on! For the past nine years it's been my pleasure to co-ordinate and organise the DebRA Golfing Society golf days and I hope to see you all at one or two of our days in 2008.
DebRA warmly welcomes new members. If you are interested in any of the events or would like further information about getting involved in DebRA's Golfing Society, please click the link at the bottom of the page or contact me, Heather Chandler (pictured right), on 01344 771961 or click the link below.
Please do come along to as many golf days in 2008 as possible, your support is very important.
