Raising money for local good causes
This afternoon 16 of our Cubs and Scouts headed to The Meres Leisure Centre to join the huge community fundraiser, Grantham’s RotarySwimarathon.
In its 35th year, the RotarySwimarathon has the aim of raising monies for local charities and deserving causes in and around Grantham. From the first event in 1990 to the present day, the team has achieved its aims, with the event going from strength to strength every year, celebrating a fantastic grand total of £1 million raised during yesterday’s event.
Our Scout Group was a beneficiary of Rotary funding during 2023, with just with a very generous £1,000 being donated towards our new camping equipment, for which we are all very grateful.
So far, we can report the following statistics from today’s event:
- Lane 6 swam 186 lengths
- Lane 7 swam 159 lengths
- £160 cash handed to the Swimarathon team
- £305 raised via our JustGiving page
We’re incredibly proud of the efforts of each and every one of our swimmers today. They were all helping and supporting each other, cheering each other on, and we even had one swimmer dancing on poolside! Thank you all, Cubs and Scouts. We're sure you'll all sleep well tonight.
f you’d like to contribute to our fundraising effort, please click: https://www.justgiving.com/page/caythorpe-scouts-swimarathon2024
To find out more about the fundraising efforts and amazing local sponsors, visit the event’s website https://rotaryswimarathon.org/. We’re expecting all the team photos from the event to be in this week’s Grantham Journal.
....The big question as all the Cubs and Scouts are recovering this evening….. three lanes next year???
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