Rotary Garden Party '09

"The club held an extremely successful garden and games party on Sunday 5 July at the home of John and Penny Morgan in Kingston with the full proceeds of £2,240.00 going to Clic Sargent charity, with some donations still coming in which will increase this figure.

Clic Sargent (cancer and leukaemia in children) has one simple aim : to ease the burden of childhood cancer on children, young people and their families.

Around 150 guests enjoyed the delights of the garden, participating in croquet, boules, table tennis, badminton, garden chess, swimming in the pool or just relaxing with a Pimms.

Live music was provided by Emily Yates, one of our younger members who played the keyboard and sang most of the afternoon.

The party was catered for by a combination of food supplied by Azuma restaurant and John cooking sausages, potato salad etc

John and Penny would particularly like to thank the people who could not attend the party but sent generous donations for Clic Sargent as well as all the Rotarians who helped on the day taking the cash at the gate, serving food and drinks and cleaning up at the end of the day.

We chose Clic Sargent as the benefiting charity as in January this year Penny's seven year old niece Caitlyn Kydd was diagnosed with Ewings Sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, having previously complained about a sore knee. Since then she has been having extensive chemotherapy at The Royal Marsden Hospital followed invariably by blood transfusions at the William Harvey hospital. She is in hospital for two weeks out of every three and her operations to replace her thigh bone and hip joint were carried out last week at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore. She will need chemotherapy for another six months after the operation. All in all a very sad case for a stunning young girl who has a wonderful character, heaps of courage and is highly intelligent"