Olympic fundraising event (From This is Hampshire)

Olympic fundraising event

4:08pm Wednesday 1st February 2012 in Andover

IT was a win, win event at Peter Symonds when more than 140 guests raised well over £3000 at an Olympic fund raising event. Symonds College PE department staff masterminded the quiz, raffle and auction extravaganza for the evening’s two beneficiaries, Symonds’ PE teacher Louise Damen and GB volleyball player Maria Bertelli, whose squad lost their Olympic funding last year.

Ali Wareham, Head of PE, said: “The Sports Department decided to support Louise when she told us she was going to take a sabbatical for training.

“This was extended to cover Marie too, a friend of mine from university days, when we heard that the volleyball team had lost their funding package.”

Read the full story in Friday's newspaper.