Surfside Waves Kicks In For Charity

A local soccer tournament was the scene of Surfside Waves latest fund raiser.

When told of Alan Barbers quest to run the New York Marathon for charity, Surfside's Cath Sattler immediately presented Alan's case to the Surfside Waves committee which voted unanimously to support Alan's quest. 

"Alan I raised your fantastic quest at Surfside Waves Committee meeting last night.  We agree we wanted to help.  We have a sausage sizzle coming up and would like to donate all the proceeds to your Parkinson's disease charity.  It is a fantastic cause and what you are doing is amazing.  The sausage sizzle is on Thursday TH June and it will be at the soccer fields.  We are allowing primary schools to use our pitches to hold their annual soccer tournament, so will be running a sausage sizzle for parents and players.  I will be generating some publicity posters to put up around the club so that people are aware what the money is being raised for."

Alan was thankful of the committees support stating "Cath I’m blown away by the offer - not least because I’m sure there are heaps of things Waves could use the funds for. I am grateful as long as you are not diverting money away from things that the club needs."

Played annually, schools involved are: Drysdale, Barwon Heads, Surfside Primary and Ocean Grove Primary
Each school entered a girls team and boys team with varying abilities involved from special needs students to representative team players
Local high school Bellarine Secondary College provided students as referees as part of their leadership program
Surfside Waves SC provided their facilities, with fully set up the pitches, and ran a bbq with proceeds going this year to Parkinson's Victoria, via alan Barber and his quest to run the New York marathon.
All teams were evenly matched but in a close call Barwon Heads won both girls and boys competitions on the day with superior goal differences.
 

To help out with Alan's fundraising simple go to the following link. Alan's facebook site:

 http://www.facebook.com/NewYorkMarathonForParkinsons?fref=ts