SW SCOTLAND RnR NEWSLETTER
JUNE 2010
Wickerman Festival
Scotland’s Wickerman Festival has teamed up with SW Scotland RnR to offer a half price Forces Concession ticket.
Forces Concession tickets can only be purchased through Jennefer Tobin and will be priced at £42.50. Jennefer on request will issue you with a special web link to our partner site where you can purchase a ticket (only one weekend concession ticket can be purchased per person).
For friends or family full price weekend tickets are £85 through Skiddle.com and can be accessed through the ‘Tickets’ page on the Wickerman website. All tickets include camping and parking but caravans and campervans carry an additional charge.
The Wickerman Festival is in its ninth year and featured acts this year include Ocean Colour Scene, The Futureheads, The Saw Doctors, Unicorn Kid, The Undertones, Codeine Velvet Club and many more.
The Wickerman has various stages offering music as eclectic as reggae and acoustic to ska, punk and dance and ranges from new music to old favourites.
The dates of the festival are 23rd and 24th July at East Kirkcarswell Farm, near Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway.
To purchase Wickerman Festival tickets contact Jennefer Tobin on:
01387 880647 or e-mail jennefer.tobin@btinternet.com
For information on the Wickerman Festival log on to www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk
CLAY SHOOTING COMPETITION 18 APRIL 2010
It gives me huge pleasure to tell you that the
competition for the best shot amongst the wounded combatants who stayed with us
through our first year of operations was a stunning success. This is now on the calendar to be an
annual event.
The winner was Marine ‘Coops’ Cooper from 40 Commando Royal Marines; Marine Geoff Palmer of 45 Commando took second place and Marine Ryan Bullick of 42 Commando third.
Ken Bennett made all the arrangements. Through his work and the truly amazing generosity of his friends and supporters he pulled together a day that gave pleasure, the fun of competition to the participants and great entertainment to all who helped and watched. We therefore wish to extend our thanks to all those who supported this event.
The hospitality of Mr. and Mrs Jardine at Glenearly Caravan Park gave an ideal setting for the competition – and the lunch. There were six traps through the valley above the park; lovely countryside and in clear view of the memorial to Mrs Jardine’s brother, Gunner Liam McLaughlin, killed whilst serving with 29 Commando, aged 21 years. Our Royal Marine competitors, of their own volition, paid a moving tribute to his memory and planted shrubs as a memorial.
The six traps posed a variety of challenges as their names suggest; springing teal, crossing pigeon, fur & feather, high pheasant and driven grouse; a 40 bird flush for teams of 3 was the entertainment after lunch. Each competitor went to the stand and was given a gun; all 20 bore and all the guns lent by the supporters; (now that is generosity – to lend your gun)! So, not only did the competitors have to learn each trap they had to do this with a different gun each time. Altogether it was a very testing competition.
The generosity of a private donor of the cartridges, The Clay Pigeon Company the 2,000 clays and Promatic International for traps made this event possible. It is with much gratitude that we thank these people and their companies for their generosity. The Lord Lieutenant Colonel Sir Malcolm Ross gave away the prizes and 50 people who have been supporters to SW Scotland RnR had a very good lunch. It was a great day.
For information – comments from Guests:
“This was the best thing that has happened to me in my military career”: said by five Senior NCOs.
“Thank you everyone for all that you have done for us. We couldn’t have asked for a better time”. Lots of love, Lee
“Thank you so much for an awesome week it could not have been better, your hard work and hospitality is much appreciated”. Lots of love Ruby.
“SW Scotland RnR was without doubt the best RnR I have been on, a fun filled week full of good activities and very nice people. We can’t say thank you enough for the week we spent there, thank you all very much”. George
“SW Scotland was a brilliant experience, everyone that is involved in the project made us feel very welcome and made us feel at home from the time of our arrival. Thank you to everyone that was involved in hosting us for the week; it was a pleasure to meet such a friendly and caring group of people. All the activities we took part in were a good laugh and we all enjoyed them. We cannot say thank you enough for inviting and us for the week”. 3 Para Mortars.
“HOOFIN’ and WAZZ!!” All of the Bootnecks!