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The Day in Pictures

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University of Lincoln Santa Fun Run & Walk 2016 - Final Report March 7th

2017 Ray Peters, Event Organiser for the 2016 Santa Fun Run thanks all the sponsors, runners and helpers who made the day.

Welcome & Thank You

Welcome to tonight's 2016 University of Lincoln Santa Fun Run dinner and presentation evening.

To start there are some thankyous from me which is going to sound a bit like the BAFTA’s I’m afraid but without any political comment!

Firstly I must say a huge thank you to the University who were our title sponsor of the 2016 Lincoln Santa Fun Run & Walk.

To Doug Scott who really stepped up to be the main man for our webpage design and Elf & Fitness e-Newsletter and even stepping in as the Official Rotary photographer on the day.

To KAL Design Group and their MD Andrew Wood who once again helped us immensely with the bespoke website for the event

To Sally Newlove our regular Santa Secretary for this event for all her hard work in keeping track of things.

Jo Owens who was a tremendous support for me in the design stages of the entry forms and medals as we were both thrown in at the deep end and Paul Banton MD of Ruddocks Printing for his invaluable support in giving excellent advice and quick turnarounds as we seemed to be constantly racing against the clock to meet the launch deadline.

Paul Stephenson at October Textiles for getting me out of a hole with T-shirts!

Duncan Gerrard for getting us some good radio time and press coverage of the event.

Peter Oldham in acting as the lead contact with all of our official charities

Mark Brewer at Imp Travel for again being one of our Santa suit collection points.

Gill & Paul Smith of EH Thorne Behives

James Wood and his son Richard at Tiger Hire without whom we could never even get started.

The Drone Man Michael Kheng and Simon Weir of Yellow Belly Telly

Lincoln City Radio Presenters Malcolm Thompson (the quiet one) David Harding-Price who isn’t!

The Lincolnshire Co-op for their generosity in donating all of the bottled water for the event.

Clive Rodgers our very own REAL Santa whom all of the kids (young & old) absolutely love!

All of our sponsors and service providers and of course all of my team of Santa’s Helpers and everyone who turned up on the day to make the event the success that it is and to make it run so smoothly.

Ray Peters

Event Organiser

On behalf of the Rotary Club of Lincoln Colonia

The University of Lincoln Santa Fun Run and Walk 2016

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Financial Position

Event Income £ 47,095

Event Expenditure £ 16,107

Amount available fordistribution to charity

£ 30,988

£ 2,410each

The organising committee agreed beforehand that this be distributed as

follows:

30% ( £ 9,296 ) to Rotary Club of Lincoln Colonia Trust Fund.

To be donated over the year to a range of

local charities and good causes.

70% ( £ 21,692 ) divided equally between the nine offficial charities.

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2017The Rotary Club of Lincoln Colonia and the Uniiversity of Lincoln hope to see you all again in December 2017 at Lincoln’s biggest and best community fundraising event in the historic streets of the Bailgate.

2016 SponsorsBackgroundAfter several years organising this event on behalf of our Club, Chris Illsley announced this time last year that he was stepping down and subsequently also stepped down from our Rotary Club. The club thanks Chris for his efforts in previous years.Member Ray Peters took up the mantle of organising the event and gathered a team of members to help him. It was a big challenge to take on, and we knew that in 2016 we would be unable to match the sums previously raised, partly because our expenditure for the event would be necessarily greater than in previous years.Nevertheless we are happy that 2500 runners took part and that we have been able to be in a position to donate several thousand pounds from the event. Congratulations to Ray and his team. We will build on this success in 2017.

Doggy DashThe Doggy Dash again gave us a colourful spectacle of some interesting outfits for man’s best friend and brought additional fun to this amazing spectacle.

Thanks to Jerry Green Dog Recue for their help and support with this once more and to Gill Smith who really enjoyed her role in organising our doggy friends.

Elf & FitnessOnce again the e-slot newsletter was used as an eye-catching way of promoting the event providing important information and updates and giving insights into our sponsors and our supported charities.

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