Sailing club celebrates LOROS's birthday with charity race

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23 Sep 2015

A huge congratulations to Wanlip Sailing Club for taking the initiative and running their own charity race in recognition of LOROS’s 30th birthday and the 30/30 campaign.

Members of the club took part in a 30 minute race as well as running a raffle and managed to raise over £250 for LOROS.

Commadore Sallie Baker said: "Last year we had a race for an international charity, this year we decided to raise money for Alt textsomething local and LOROS was the most popular choice."

Thank you very much to all at Wanlip Sailing Club for your support, the money raised could pay to transport 25 of our outpatients to and from their day therapy sessions.

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