| Western Australian kiteboarders raise funds to help children with cancer |
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| Written by Editor at SurferToday.com |
| Tuesday, 03 November 2009 17:15 |
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Following in the footsteps of the event being planned in SA, WAKSA is organising a fund raising downwinder to support Redkite – a charity supporting children and young people through cancer. In order to make fundraising quick and easy, we have set up a website to coordinate the process and to make collecting all monies raised really simple. If you or your crew are keen to win some really decent prizes CLICK HERE to go to the site and then click on the ‘Build Fundraising Page Now’ button to enter your details and start raising money. The meeting point for the event will be at Brighton and we plan to start once we get a sense of what the wind is doing on the day, but as usual expect that to be anytime from 2.30/3.00pm. Kiters will have two course options, depending upon the wind obviously, and their skills and experience – starting at either Leighton Beach and finishing at Brighton Beach, or for the newer kiters out there, starting at City Beach and kiting straight up the coast to finish at Brighton. A number of kite and record/CD shops around Perth have already contributed several hundred dollars worth of prizes to encourage you to get out there and raise funds for Redkite. We will provide details of what’s up for grabs in the coming weeks. WAKSA is also throwing in free entry to Kitestock 2010 for a couple of lucky kiters. One of our sponsors has agreed to provide buses to transport kiters to the start locations on the day and of course, there will be the obligatory sausage sizzle at the end for all participants. Due to the fact that we are required to have significant public liability insurance to conduct an event like this, WAKSA membership is a prerequisite to participate in this event. If you still don't have this then go to the Home page page and click on the big 'Subscribe' button to start the process. Book the date in your diaries now folks – Sunday 6th December 2009 for the inaugural WAKSA – Redkite Charity Downwinder. In order to successfully conduct this event, WAKSA also needs a number of volunteers to help out on the day. Anybody prepared to put in a couple of hours on the day can email us for further details.
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