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Dragon Boat Race 2010

Sunday 13 June saw a group of 20 boys from East Town, along with Jonathan Thomson-Glover, Lindsay Telling, Michael Whitton and Allan Wilkie, setting up camp at 9am on Bristol City Docks in preparation for the Bristol Breakfast Rotary Club Dragon Boat Festival.

The first half of term was spent fundraising for Childline, and especially The Childrens Voice Appeal, together with some amazing donations to their Justgiving account. A whooping £1,500 has been raised so far! The boys have bag packed in Sainsbury’s, had a cake sale and Lindsay has cooked more bacon baps for them to sell than she would like to remember! It has all been in a good cause, so a really big thank-you to everyone who has been involved.

The Dragon Boat Race Day was amazing and although the race times were not good enough to get the East Town Tigers team into the semi-finals, everyone had a great time. All the boys had two races, with some boys volunteering to help with The Princes Trust Team 2 Boat, so they worked even harder and an appreciative thanks go to them too.

Dragon Boat Race 2010 Gallery

TG even took on the role as drummer for one race and managed to do surprisingly well, despite comments about how much more fun it would have been had he fallen in! Apart from getting very wet anyway, the weather was fantastic and with the BBQ in full swing it was a great atmosphere with parents dropping in during the day. It was certainly a fun day to remember.

Fundraising still continues apace too, in the hope of raising over £1,600 which will pay for a new Childline counsellor to be trained – so please do dip into your pockets for this excellent cause if you have not already contributed.

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