 to the official web site of the SWF Swimarathon. organised by The Rotary Club of South Woodham Ferrers. This annual event is organised to raise money with a Charity Swimarathon whereby teams of 6 will gain sponsorship to swim for a total of 55 minutes. The sponsorship money will be donated to the Rotary Club of South Woodham Ferrers Charitable Trust to add to funds for local good causes. Charities taking part can nominate 25% of the funds raised by them to go to their own charity. In addition there are rewards for Teams & Individuals taking part: * The school that
enters most teams - The Mapleford Challenge Cup The Rotary Club of South Woodham Ferrers is holding its sixth Swimarathon from 19th March until 21st March 2010. Our primary aim will be to raise money for deserving projects for the caring community of South Woodham Ferrers. In 2009 we were supporting the charities below. They received £9000 because of your generosity Chelmsford Children Hospital Wards Fund Little Havens Hospice In 2009 other local good causes also benefited, donations like £250 for St John Ambulance for their support throughout the Swimarathon. Other charities of individual swimmers could also benefit to the extent of 25% of donations & sponsorship of the individual The money raised by last years Swimarathon was over £11000 and divided between the charities above as promised In 2010 we are supporting Rotary
Charities & Essex Air Ambulance
J's Hospice in Chelmsford and other Rotary Charities We can only provide this support by the generosity of people like you in South Woodham and surrounding area who donate to our Rotary Club when we knock on your door selling programmes for the Firework Spectacular or when we bring Santa to see the children of the Town and now through our Swimarathon. All in all we have raised over £55000 from our community over the last 5 years from Swimarathons Other Rotary Funds gained from the Sleigh & Fireworks went to many of organizations, to our scouts and guide troops, as well as the Air Training Corps. There have been dozens of smaller donations to all manner of worthy causes in the past ranging from people with accompanying disabled people to holidays or young people wishing to raise money for their particular worthy cause and many more. Our Rotary website on www.swfrotary.co.uk gives more up to date news as the year goes by. Thanks to our generous sponsors, we were able to cover all of our expenses of this event, leaving the sponsor money raised by our swimming teams to Little Haven, Chelmsford Children's Wards. We hope you enjoy the content of this site and find the booking online pages and download pages useful and easy to use. Our main aim is to keep all of our supporters well informed and interested in this new Town annual event. We are asking you to support us again for 2010 event
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