{"id":1468,"date":"2012-03-28T13:23:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T13:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?1468"},"modified":"2012-03-28T13:23:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T13:23:20","slug":"golfing-day-raises-6k-for-help-for-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/golfing-day-raises-6k-for-help-for-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Golfing day raises \u00a36k for Help for Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"
A fundraising event held at Torquay has collected over £6,000 for military charity Help for Heroes.<\/p>\n
Torquay Golf Club's ladies' captain Vonnie Evans put on a special dinner that featured Shirley Bassey, Diana Ross and One Direction tribute acts, This is South Devon reports.<\/p>\n
Some 12 Royal Engineers and four Royal Marines took part in the event and they had only been back in the UK for two weeks.<\/p>\n
The final total from the sell-out extravaganza was £6,717.<\/p>\n
As well as musical numbers, there was also a performance of the Two Ronnies classic Four Candles sketch.<\/p>\n
Ms Evans is not the only person who is collecting cash for the armed forces charity, as a Sidmouth rugby player and two friends are hoping to cycle from John O' Groats to Land's End – a distance of 1,000 miles – in 12 days.<\/p>\n
Andrew Dare told the Sidmouth Herald that they will be doing the project completely unaided, so they have to carry all of their own equipment.<\/p>\n
Posted by Trevor Smith
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Over £6,000 was raised by the Torquay Golf Club’s ladies’ dinner. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-support-soldiers"],"yoast_head":"\n