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Stone Festival 2021

Ian Hall • May 26, 2021

SADSC supporting the Stone Virtual Festival 2021

SADSC are going to take part in this year’s virtual Stone Festival on Monday 7th June and raise some money for some great local causes. We hope that our members will have a bit of fun whilst taking part in a great local event.


The details of what we are doing are thus,


  • The event will be a continuous relay competition between each one of our three houses, Kraken, Poseidon and Neptune.
  • Each house will be raising money for a different charity or cause.
  • The house that raises the most money will receive ‘house points’
  • The house that completes the most relay laps will have the money that they have raised topped up by our club sponsors, Triband, as a winning bonus.


For those that are unfamiliar with our house system, you can find further details here. In addition, if you don’t know what house your child is in you can find out here;


All we request is that all members turn up as normal for their session and we will do the rest.


The three causes we are supporting are as follows and we would encourage everyone to support your child’s house and please share the information on our Facebook page etc to anyone you can think of.


Neptune: Stone Community Hub - “an independent registered charity dedicated to improving the lives of residents of Stone and its surrounding villages by providing support and advice in times of need “ More about the Stone Hub


Kraken: Stone Festival - “Each year we as a committee are delighted to hand out monies to well known and respected local good causes, many of whom we can all relate to in one form or another”, More about Stone Festival


Poseidon: AEDdonate - “AEDdonate is committed to improving survival from out of hospital cardiac arrests, supporting the placement and use of Automated External Defibrillators (AED) to local communities.” More about AED Donate


On the night we will try to keep you updated on how the houses are doing, and I am sure the lead will change many times during the night.

 

We look forward to your support in helping our local good causes and please click on the house buttons below to donate to these causes

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