Paddle Donates to Seventeen Great Causes
This years Joe Way Paddle for life was hailed another success after an amazing turn out.
This year’s event saw a footfall of over a thousand spectators for the second year running and a record 400 paddlers of all ages and abilities taking part in the 200m, 1km fun paddle, 1km relays and the RNLI memorial cup to do their bit to raise money for some of the 20 charities now supported by the Joe Way appeal.
The event raised £4033.00 which means the overall total for the Joe Way appeal is over £127,213.00 for over 20 different charities which has been raised over the last six years, you can still donate by going to Joe’s website.
The burger van raised over £650 with the food donated by Bookers and cooked for free by Ultra Entertainment, Coastal Crepes donated all their takings of £312, the rowing club and Skinners Brewery raised £250, Cornwall hospice cakes stand raised £186. The raffle, entry money, Harry Kazzam’s balloons and the Crowdfunding page made up the rest of the money.
This years good causes are Newquay and Lusty surf life saving clubs, Bowel Cancer UK, The Wave Project, Little Harbour, Surfers Against Sewage, Cornwall Hospice Care, The Noah Project (Sainsburys choice), Air Ambulance, Ronald Macdonald House Bristol, Newquay Leo’s, Assert which helps children with Angelmans Syndrome, Remembrance bench donation for a local family, Wave Slaves Surf Club, CLIC Sargent, AH20 which provides water filters in Nicaragua.
The family have donated £500 to Little Harbour in memory of Dr Nicki Gilbertson and Dr John Ellis who both passed away in the last 12 months and spent years looking after Joe at Treliske Hospital.
Claire Way Joe’s mum said “They both did so much for Joe and us as a family, we will always be grateful to them and remember them with a smile”.
Another £500 went to Bowel Cancer UK as a thank you to Actor Ben Richards who has supported Joe’s Appeal for many years, Ben has successfully fought Bowel cancer and is currently the Patron of the charity raising awareness of the dieses at a national level.
The 1km relay was won this year by Newquay surf life saving Boys team and the SUP section was won by the Surf Sanctuary team. The highest fundraiser trophy was won by Newquay SLSC who raised over £640.00 with donations from Councillors Geoff Brown and Joanne Kenny’s community chest funds, Newquay Rotary and the Pentire residents association.
NSLSC inspirational Paddler trophy went to twins Selin and Yasemin Sevinc for all their help setting up and clearing away at this years paddle event.
The winning team of the RNLI relay where the Constantine beach team and the Joe Way memorial cup was retained by North Fistral in a highly competitive battle between the RNLI beach lifeguards.
Matt Way said, “We had a great turn out using all 150 places for the 1km and filling the fithteen four person heats for the relay. It was great to see all the surf schools and clubs joining in this meant a lot to us”.
This year’s event saw a footfall of over a thousand spectators for the second year running and a record 400 paddlers of all ages and abilities taking part in the 200m, 1km fun paddle, 1km relays and the RNLI memorial cup to do their bit to raise money for some of the 20 charities now supported by the Joe Way appeal.
The event raised £4033.00 which means the overall total for the Joe Way appeal is over £127,213.00 for over 20 different charities which has been raised over the last six years, you can still donate by going to Joe’s website.
The burger van raised over £650 with the food donated by Bookers and cooked for free by Ultra Entertainment, Coastal Crepes donated all their takings of £312, the rowing club and Skinners Brewery raised £250, Cornwall hospice cakes stand raised £186. The raffle, entry money, Harry Kazzam’s balloons and the Crowdfunding page made up the rest of the money.
This years good causes are Newquay and Lusty surf life saving clubs, Bowel Cancer UK, The Wave Project, Little Harbour, Surfers Against Sewage, Cornwall Hospice Care, The Noah Project (Sainsburys choice), Air Ambulance, Ronald Macdonald House Bristol, Newquay Leo’s, Assert which helps children with Angelmans Syndrome, Remembrance bench donation for a local family, Wave Slaves Surf Club, CLIC Sargent, AH20 which provides water filters in Nicaragua.
The family have donated £500 to Little Harbour in memory of Dr Nicki Gilbertson and Dr John Ellis who both passed away in the last 12 months and spent years looking after Joe at Treliske Hospital.
Claire Way Joe’s mum said “They both did so much for Joe and us as a family, we will always be grateful to them and remember them with a smile”.
Another £500 went to Bowel Cancer UK as a thank you to Actor Ben Richards who has supported Joe’s Appeal for many years, Ben has successfully fought Bowel cancer and is currently the Patron of the charity raising awareness of the dieses at a national level.
The 1km relay was won this year by Newquay surf life saving Boys team and the SUP section was won by the Surf Sanctuary team. The highest fundraiser trophy was won by Newquay SLSC who raised over £640.00 with donations from Councillors Geoff Brown and Joanne Kenny’s community chest funds, Newquay Rotary and the Pentire residents association.
NSLSC inspirational Paddler trophy went to twins Selin and Yasemin Sevinc for all their help setting up and clearing away at this years paddle event.
The winning team of the RNLI relay where the Constantine beach team and the Joe Way memorial cup was retained by North Fistral in a highly competitive battle between the RNLI beach lifeguards.
Matt Way said, “We had a great turn out using all 150 places for the 1km and filling the fithteen four person heats for the relay. It was great to see all the surf schools and clubs joining in this meant a lot to us”.