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January RNLI 200 Club Draws and Thank You

Mermaids January 2011

Mermaids December 2011

January sees our first draws of the new year and again we start the year with a full house of 200 numbers being taken up! Fantastic news. we currently have a waiting list for those wishing to join which means we can sustain a full house. If you should like to join please contact us so you can be added to the list.

This month’s draws will be held on Saturday 29th January at 2.30pm in Heybridge Basin aside the Lock and by the Flag Pole. The weekly prize is £50.

Although a little late (apologies), but we are still technically in January, just, we should like to thank all our 200 Club members for their continued support in helping us raise £5,432 for the RNLI over the past year. Notwithstanding, the £4,800 which was paid out to members in prizes!

Please click the link below for this year’s rejoin information.

2022 Rejoin

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Results of the RNLI 200 Club Christmas Draw

 

New Year's Race 2019

New Year’s Race 2019

Congratulations to our winners of the Christmas Even Bigger Oars Draw, 4th Quarter Big Oars Draw and December weekly draws which took place at MLSC on Sunday 19th December. Here are the winners:

Christmas Draw

1st prize £500 – Scott Mills

2nd Prize £200 – Debbie Kiddier

4th Quarter Draw

1st Prize £250 – Christine Oatham

2nd Prize £100 – Lew Schnurr (donated to the RNLI)

3rd Prize £76 – Sue Prinn

Weekly Prize £50

Christine Oatham (donated to the RNLI), Freya Bryson, Jean Cuthbert, Rob Bryson

Some of you may be aware that this year’s MLSC Rowing Race, due to be held on 3rd January 2022, has had to be postponed due to the recurrent COVID 19 situation and it’s hoped to be rearranged for a later date. We are really disappointed about this, but all is not lost in terms of revenue raised by the Basin Oars this year through the RNLI 200 Club as we are extremely proud to announce the total from this will be £5432 which is over £200 more than last year.

Many thanks one and all for your continued support and generosity over this year. We couldn’t have raised this amount of money for the RNLI without you!

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Meet the Greyhounds

Meet the Greyhounds

Today, 4th October, we had the welcome invitation to visit Clarks Farm Greyhound Rescue a registered charity based in Little Totham, near Maldon, Essex, the benefactors of our scaled down fun dog show, held last month. We were able to meet the lovely Hannah and had great pleasure in presenting her with the £483 raised from the show together with some other donations! We also had the opportunity to meet some of the gorgeous greyhounds who are waiting to be re-homed.

It was a lovely morning and quite busy, arriving as one of the dogs was just leaving, having just been adopted, then a group of dogs returned from their walk with their handlers.

We normally raise more money from our fun dog shows, but this year due to early days of the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions we decided to play safe and keep numbers low by promoting it almost exclusively within our village. We hope that next year the world may have opened up again and we can have  a slightly larger show. To this end we intend to support Clarks Farm Greyhound Rescue again.

Save the date of Saturday 17th September 2022!

Huge thank you to everyone who supported our show this year!

Please visit their website: www.clarksfarmgreyhounds.org.uk for more information.

Oars and Paws Fun Dog Show 2021

 

Best in Show 2021 Truffle

Best in Show 2021 Truffle

Our fun dog show finally happened on Saturday 18th September! We thought long and hard about whether to run the show this year due to the uncertainty of COVID restrictions. We decided to go ahead but on a much scaled down event promoting to just Heybridge Basin residents and their families.

We had a fabulous day with very warm sunshine and a manageable number of entrants and spectators and we raised a very respectable £460 for Clarks Farm Greyhound Re-homing centre, a local charity in Little Totham. We shall be visiting them next month to present them with the money and also have the chance to see some of the dogs.

We hope to run  the show next year, so hold the date for Saturday 17th September 2022!

RNLI 200 Club June Draws

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June draw results at £50 each went to number 67 Ralph Hobden, number 147 Debbie Kiddier, number 162 Geoffrey Clark and another of Geoffrey’s other numbers 111!! Double whammy or what. We’ve asked him to tell us how he is going to treat his wife. Thank you all again so much for your continued and valued support.

2nd Quarter Big Oars Draws were drawn on Wednesday 30th June and the results were as follows:

1st Prize £250 to No. 87 Lew Schnurr who very generously donated it to the RNLI – thank you so much Lew!

2nd Prize £100 to No. 125 Doug Milsted

3rd Prize £76 to No. 50 David Moule

Congratulations everyone and thank you for your continued support.

May draw results were £50 each to number 199 Samantha Martin, number 194 Colin Trowles, number 114 Rob Bryson and number 70 Peter Ellis. Peter Ellis has put his £50 back into the RNLI pot, saying that they need the money more than him.  

Thank you Peter, and thank to you all for your continued support.

Photo is from September 2012 at the Round Northey Island row. Our theme was le Tour de France, inspired by Sir Bradley Wiggins and renamed le Tour de Northey!

RNLI 200 Club Cheque Presentation

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On Saturday 24th April we had a cheque presentation from us to the Maldon Branch of the RNLI in respect of last year’s total funds raised through our 200 Club which amounted to £5,020.

If you head to our Facebook page you will be able to see a much appreciated article published about the presentation in INYOURAREA.COM

Lovely to see so many people on lock side supporting this. It was an honour to have the West Mersea Lifeboat crew attend for what was their first PR function of the year! We also drew the weekly draws for April and the results are as follows, with each winning £50

No. 151 Janice and John Frost

No. 157 Jacqueline Yorston

No. 101 Steven Wood

No. 121 Lew Schnurr

Congratulations everyone and thanks for your continued support.