A local Golf Club has raised a massive £40,000 for charity after hosting a series of fundraising activities and events over two years.
Edgbaston Golf Club presented a cheque to St Basils last week after raising the money during sponsored walks and online auctions as well as contributions from Captains’ days, Invitation days and other golfing events.
St Basils, which is named after the small church hall it was first launched from in Digbeth, supports over 5,000 16 to 25-year-olds each year and has become the largest youth homelessness charity in the West Midlands providing a range of prevention, accommodation, support, employability and engagement services.
An Edgbaston Golf Club spokesperson said: “Outgoing Edgbaston Golf Club Captains, Jim Jeffries and Janet Vakil, are delighted with the success of their two year’s association with St Basils. A Birmingham based Charity that works with young people to enable them to find and keep a home, grow their confidence, develop their skills and prevent homelessness. Fundraising activity, for Edgbaston’s Captains’ Charity, included three sponsored walks: one in Spain and nearer to home at Ross-on-Wye and Cannock; and also a number of on-line auctions, raffles and contributions from Captains’ days, Invitation days and other golfing events. All of which were wonderfully well supported by the Edgbaston Membership and by friends of the Members.”
Barrie Hodge, Head of Fundraising and Communications at St Basils said:
“We can’t thank the team at Edgbaston Golf club enough for their amazing support during this partnership. Their commitment to our cause has been outstanding. The money raised by the club is an investment, not just in the young people we support, but in the future of our region and the place we call home. On behalf of all the young people we support at St Basils, thank you.”
St Basils Business and Communities Executive for Birmingham Sian Dhillon said:
“We’re really lucky to enjoy support from a number of local businesses in Birmingham who form partnerships with us as their chosen charity. Edgbaston Golf Club have gone above and beyond in terms of their dedication to the cause and we’ve been absolutely staggered by the generosity shown and by the amount they’ve managed to raise to help vulnerable young people across Birmingham.”
