On Tuesday 29th April at about 1:30pm we’ll take the first steps on the long road to Adams Park to raise money in memory of Bram and Chris Lane. So far the money two charities – Salvation Army  and Breast Cancer Care – already totals more than £2,500. We’re confident it’ll be a lot higher by the end of the walk.
Tuesday’s walk is a relatively short stretch up to Charlton Kings – well actually the Reservoir Pub on the A40 just easy of Charlton Kings, where we will be collected by a minibus to return to Gloucester for a fund raising night at Kingsholm.
The Club have kindly given us use of the Lions Den bar, which will be open from 7:30. We’ll have a whole bunch of sporting memoribilia to auction, plus a few other bits and bobs that have been donated – a pair of tickets for a race meeting at Cheltenham, for example.
There’s been a great response to our pleas for donations, and stuff to auction – we’ve received items from most premiership clubs some of which will be going under the hammer on Tuesday night, some we’ll keep back for another evening on the walk.
One of the prize items has to be a book “Our Road To Glory – Munster’s Heinken Cup Triumph” which has been autographed by the squad and was kindly donated by them when they were over a few weeks ago.
All being well Dean Ryan will accept the role of auctioneer, if he can’t scare a few quid out of people I don’t know who can, and I know Alistair is trying to drum up support from other members of the management and squad. Dean will also take on a question and answer session from supporters during the evening.
There is no admission charge on Tuesday night, though obviously any donations to the fund will be greatly received!
The Lane family have nominated the Salvation Army and Breast Cancer Care as the charities they would like to benefit from the fundraising. If you would like to show your support you can make a donation to the Salvation Army via Just Giving by clicking here, or to Breast Cancer Care by clicking here.
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All donations gratefully received.
Thank you for your support!
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For whatever reason, confidence seems to be low at the moment and it’s showing in performances for Glaws. Two months ago I wouldn’t have thought I’d be leaving Kingsholm thinking we were lucky to beat a Newcastle side missing Tait, Flood, Noon and Wilkinson, but the reality was we were.
