Island Life Magazine Ltd August/September 2010 | Page 36

social scene

April/May 2010

Photo Left to right: Front: Brenda & Mike Hayward, Back: Ron Bowler, Karen Eeles,
Louise Watson, Maureen Wheeler, Neville Wheeler, Graham Elderfield.

Sunflower Ball
celebrates 20
years' support
from Moreys
Moreys Builders’ Merchants hosted
a Sunflower Ball at the Cowes Yacht
Haven to celebrate their 20-year
involvement with Walk the Wight and
raising funds for The Earl Mountbatten
Hospice.
The ball, which raised around £4,000,
was supported by customers, suppliers
and friends of the hospice. Island
illusionist Aaron Isted, entertained
diners with his own brand of table
magic which was followed by frantic
bidding in the Grand Auction before
The Accelerators took to the stage to
provide the dance music .
Walk the Wight was the inspiration of
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Photo Left to right: Nick Bell, Stephanie Bell, Mike Warner
(Jewsons Merchant Group Director), Carole Warner, Ron &
Alana Bowler

two Moreys employees 20 years ago,
the late Bill Bradley and Frank Stevens.
Since then the company have kept their
association with the walk ever since.
In the early days the walk was totally
managed by Moreys staff, however as
the annual event grew more popular
outside volunteers were brought in to
help make the walk the biggest fund
raising walk on the Island.
Moreys general manager Ron Bowler,
confirmed that over 11,000 walkers had
taken part in this year’s event, either
walking the 26 miles from Bembridge
to Alum Bay, or the first or second half,
converging on the fields at Carisbrooke

Castle.
Also included in the total were
walkers who covered the flat walk from
Sandown to Shide as well as school
children who covered virtually the full
distance by walking to and from school
for weeks preceding the main walk,
and then walking from Freshwater Bay
to Alum Bay via Tennyson Down on the
day. Funds already collected for this
year’s walk took the total raised in all
the walks to over £2 million pounds.
The 2011 walk will take place on
Sunday May 15th.

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