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WCIT Golf Day 2014
Over £5000 raised for the WCIT Charity’s
work with Lifelites
C
harity, Education, Industry and
Fellowship are the four pillars of
our Livery Company and the
WCIT Charity Golf Day embodies them
all. The day raised over £5,000 for the
WCIT Charity’s work with Lifelites; one
of the charities supported by our
Company’s Charity. This is a stunning
result and demonstrates the generosity of
WCIT members and their guests. Money
was raised via a number of activities
including a raffle, bet-on-your-score,
competing against the club professional,
buying prizes skilfully auctioned by the
dynamic Dominic O’Riley and an end of
evening exercise where you stand up and
sit down in order to win a magnum of
champagne donated by Nic Birtles.
The education element comes from a
number of areas: we learnt about St
James Place Wealth Management, who
was our lead sponsor, well represented by
John Laurens. We discovered more about
GiveAsYouLive, the Charity chaired by
WCIT Liveryman Geoff Squire, who
donated a superb selection of rare and
fine wines as prizes, and WCIT
Liveryman Kirstin Duffield took the
opportunity to have a golf lesson.
With great thanks to IT4Arts also for
donations of some wonderful prizes on
the day including a pair of tickets to a
concert of the winner’s choice at
Wigmore Hall and two tickets for the
opening night of the English Touring
Opera’s new production of Haydn's Life
on the Moon, at the Hackney Empire;
many thanks to all the sponsors through
iT4Arts.
Fellowship is what makes an event like
this successful.
This year we went to Ashridge, the
Deputy Master’s home course, where we
were looked after very well indeed. The
course was in superb condition, the staff
were friendly and helpful and the food
was wonderful.
Deputy Master, Michael Webster awarding
James Kelliher with WCIT Golfer of 2014
creating an awareness and inclusion of
the more seriously impaired children.
Many thanks to all our sponsors,
supporters and players for their
generosity in helping to make this a great A fantastic outcome for all the generous
donations to the WCIT Charity.
day out and generating such a fantastic
sum for Lifelites.
Contributed by Peter Cordery,
Subsequently, Lifelites applied to the
WCIT Charity for funds towards the
Eyegaze roll-out to all 49 hospices in the
UK and I am pleased to inform you that
the WCIT Charity was able to donate
£12,500 of matched funding to Lifelites
in August 2014 and that, to-date,
Lifelites have installed ten Eyegaze
systems and another five are planned for
this Autumn. Lifelites are already seeing
a national take up of Eyegaze technology
in schools and their incredible work is
WCIT Golf Club Chairman
Eyegaze technology in use at Lifelites
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