Ashtons Legal raises £1,900 at Charity Golf Day

Posted 20/06/2013

Ashtons Legal hosted its first Charity Golf Day at Weston Park Golf Club near Norwich on 19 June.

19 teams took part in the highly successful ‘Midsummer Golf Classic’, raising funds of just over £1,900 for three charities which Ashtons Legal is supporting through a Charity of the Year partnership – Nelson’s Journey, Macmillan and Magpas.The event brought together a wide range of businesses and professionals from Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. The day included a 9 hole Texas Scramble and putting competition, followed by an 18 hole competition in the afternoon. The weather was unusually kind, and the players enjoyed a long sunny afternoon’s play on the excellently maintained course.The winners of the 18 hole competition were HSBC, with Shorthose Russell taking second place and Churchgate Accountants coming in third.In the evening, guests were treated to a three course dinner and prize giving ceremony, followed by a short presentation by Colin Lang, Chief Executive of Nelson’s Journey. The Norwich-based charity provides bereavement support to children and young people who have lost someone close to them, such as a parent or a sibling. It costs the charity over £400 a year for each child it supports and in 2012, over 400 children were referred to Nelson’s Journey. We were delighted to welcome Martin Goymer, who owns Weston Park, as a guest at the dinner.Thanks go to everyone involved in helping to raise such a substantial amount of money and to Chris Ginn at BDO for his generous donation of a signed Nottinghamshire County cricket shirt as a raffle prize.

Pictured above: the team from Nelson’s Journey.