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Company floats raft race challenge for Severn Hospice

08/05/2013
by Andrew TradeWeb Support
Company pride will be at stake when 11 teams take up a charity raft race challenge in June to raise money for Severn Hospice in Shrewsbury.
 
Morris Lubricants, Britain’s leading family-owned, independent oil blenders and marketers based in Shrewsbury, is organising the four mile race on the River Severn from Bicton to Kingsland Bridge in Shrewsbury as part of the town’s second River Festival on Sunday, June 9.
 
The company invited customers and suppliers to join its team in a race and 10 have taken up the challenge. Morris Lubricants will be up against Morris & Co, Salop Leisure, Pheonix Fire Protection, Gately Wareing, Lloyds Bank, Multisol, J. T. Hughes, Greenhous Group, Barnett Waddingham and Shropshire Council.
 
Apart from making a river-worthy raft, each team must pledge to raise a minimum of £200 to take part, with all the proceeds going to Severn Hospice.
 
In addition to putting one over their company rivals, the winning team will receive a trophy for their efforts.
 
The River Festival is a day of family fun on a river "Pirates on the Severn" theme organised by Shrewsbury and Shropshire Waterways and Leisure Group in the Quarry Park and on the river from 10am to 5pm. Visit http://www.shrewsburyriverfestival.co.uk for more information.
 
The raft race is part of Morris Lubricants’ £10,000 fundraising challenge this year to support Severn Hospice. Staff and friends plan to complete the 214-mile Severn Way long-distance footpath in seven different ways.
 
They will follow the course of the River Severn from its source on Plynlumon near Llanidloes to the Bristol Channel on foot, in a canoe and coracle, by swimming, cycling, rafting and on horseback.
 
The footpath will be broken down into five-mile sections for staff and friends to tackle whichever way they choose and all the money raised will go to Severn Hospice.
 
Morris Lubricants’ chairman Gareth Jones and distribution manager Graham Fewtrell are making their own coracles to navigate part of the River Severn near Shrewsbury and sales manager Steve Dawe has pledged to tackle the Severn mile sponsored swim on August 18.
 
The fundraising effort is being co-ordinated by the company’s management accountant, Phil Gittins, who has planned the raft race.
 
Last year, the company raised £20,000 for the Teenage Cancer Trust by scaling the 64 ‘county tops’ of England, Wales, Scotland and the Isles of Wight and Man. The charity has special significance to the company, as late employee Adam Fewtrell died of a rare form of childhood bone cancer in 2011 at the age of 20. Adam’s father Graham and sister Amy both work for Morris Lubricants.
 
“Following on from the incredible success of last year’s fundraising for the Teenage Cancer Trust, the company has decided this year’s charity will be a local one, the Severn Hospice,” explained Phil.
 
“The Severn Hospice provides free end of life care for the people of Shropshire and Mid Wales at three centres in Shrewsbury, Telford and Newtown and also in the patients’ own homes. Around 2,500 people each year benefit from their services.
 
“As a charity, the hospice relies on fundraising to survive and needs to raise £4.5 million a year to continue its good work.”
 
Donations to the fundraising effort can be made on the Just Giving website at www.justgiving.com/morris-lubricants

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