50 Years of the Raft Race Sunday 6 September 2015

Organised by St David’s Hospice Care • The Rotary Club of Monmouth

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Celebrating its 47th Annual Race • , Monmouth Build your own raft for the 6.5 mile course Sunday 2 September 2012 at 12 noon

In support of St David’s Hospice Care

For raft information, please call The Rotary Club of Monmouth on 01600 712665 email [email protected] www.monmouthraftrace.com Registered Charity No. 1010576 Registered Charity No. 515576 The Rotary Club of Monmouth

Monmouth Rotary Club is delighted to organise the Monmouth Raft Race, which is an important event in the local calendar. It is part of what makes our town such a special place and we are proud to have been entrusted with continuing the tradition over the last 12 years.

Attracting rafters from across the UK the race has raised over £500,000 for charity during its long life. For the tenth year we are supporting St. David’s Hospice Care which provides such excellent care for the community. In 2014 the raft race raised over £30,000 for them, taking our overall total for the 10 years to £177,000. It is hoped that, in this the 50th Raft Race, last year’s total will be surpassed.

These events take a great deal of time and effort to organise and my personal thanks go to the team of Rotarians and friends, led by Norman Williams, who have demonstrated one of the core values of the Rotary movement, ‘Service above Self’.

My thanks also go to the various organisations that provide sponsorship and help with the event, and of course the indefatigable rafters and their supporters.

Finally thank you for supporting us by being here today. Have a great day and enjoy the Raft Race together with the Family Festival at the finish 6 miles down river at Whitebrook.

Rees Rogers President - The Rotary Club of Monmouth

Be a part of it - Monmouth Rotarians have fun serving the Community: Main Events Calendar - “Walk The Wye” Charity Walk - Annual Monmouth Raft Race - Bonfire & Fireworks at Monmouth Rowing Club If you would like to help, find out - Bringing Christmas Cheer more about becoming a member, to the Streets of Monmouth or simply to learn more about us - Model Railway exhibition and what we do, please contact - Street Collections Paul Sherrington 01989 770911 New homes throughout South

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St David’s Hospice Care has been providing time we are caring for over 1,300 patients, and community-based hospice care for people with during the year cared for a total of 3,322 patients cancer or other life-threatening illnesses, and and their families/carers. Last year 55,000 hours their families, since 1979. Our care is provided to of care were provided by St David’s Hospice people living within Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, at Home service thereby enabling patients to Newport, Torfaen and within certain areas of remain in their own homes if that is their choice. South and Mid Powys. Last year, over 125 families were referred to the Unicorn Service, which enables children to In June 2013 St David’s Hospice Care took over receive additional support at what is probably the management of St Anne’s Hospice which one of the most difficult times of their lives. We means that, should the need arise, our patients are aware that it is vitally important for children to can receive care in the in-patient hospice in receive appropriate bereavement support. This Newport. In addition to the four teams of Clinical service is therefore not restricted to children of Nurse Specialists, we have a Hospice at Home our patients, but referrals can also be made for team of nurses and healthcare assistants who children who may have experienced the sudden provide hands-on care for our patients. St death of a close relative. David’s Hospice Care also has a Family Support Team comprising social workers, welfare rights I’m sure you will appreciate that the high level advisers, bereavement support, children’s of care provided by St David’s Hospice Care support worker (Unicorn) and complementary does have financial implications for the Charity. therapists. We have four Day Hospices: in With the addition of St Anne’s Hospice it will Newport; near Pontypool; in Ystrad Mynach and cost us approximately £7 million each year to in Brecon. St David’s Hospice Care also has two provide our services and we receive less than Resource Centres: in Caldicot and in Monmouth. 20% of this from the NHS. In order to raise The need for our services continues to increase much needed funds we have 38 charity shops, year on year and last year 2,171 patients were a weekly lottery, and organise many fundraising referred to St David’s Hospice Care, 567 (26.1%) events throughout the year. We are indebted to of whom had a non-cancer diagnosis. At any one the local community for their on-going support and we are sincerely grateful for any financial contributions towards the work of our Charity.

We are so very grateful to The Rotary Club of Monmouth for once again selecting St David’s to be the main recipient of the funds from the 2015 Raft Race (75%), they do such a fantastic job of raising funds locally and we are very proud to be associated with such a well established event.

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