News / Relay for Life breaks £300,000 barrier
SHETLAND’S enormous bi-annual fund raising event Relay for Life has beaten its own extraordinary record by raising more than £300,000.
The announcement was made at Sound hall on Friday night when the Relay committee held a “thank you evening” for all the people who took part in the event which took place overnight from 31 May to 1 June at the Clickimin running track in Lerwick.
The phenomenal fund raising effort had already raised £200,000 before the big night, so this year’s total of £306,560.76 was not completely unexpected, convincingly beating 2012’s £275,000 record – the most successful event of its kind anywhere in Europe.
Current committee chairwoman Kerry Eunson said: “On behalf of the committee I want to say a massive thank you to everybody who had helped in any way to raise this sum.
“The generosity of the Shetland community is amazing, and it is incredible that we have yet again managed to beat our total from the previous relay.”
The night was also a chance to pay tribute to committee member Alan Slater, who tragically died in July this year.
The committee is planning to buy a trophy to dedicate to Slater, whose involvement stretches back many years, that will be handed out at future events.
Eunson announced that she would be stepping down this year from her position, and will be replaced by current vice chairman Martin Henderson in 2016.
Henderson said: “Kerry has done an amazing job at this year’s Relay and should be very proud of the part she had played in raising money for Cancer Research UK through successive Relays.
“I hope I can now take on the baton for the Relay 2016 and do as good a job.”
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