TAVISTOCK Golf Club held a charity fun day recently (August 29) to raise money for the Gurkha Welfare Trust’s (GWT) Earthquake Appeal.

The day was organised and run by a former Gurkha officer, Mike Roe and his wife Jenny, along with volunteers from the club.

The weather was kind and club members and guests enjoyed a slightly unusual team of four event with a number of special individual prizes.

Members and guests dug deep into their pockets to raise the sum of £3,802 to help in the rebuilding of Nepal and assisting the population following the earthquakes earlier this year.

Those that attended the prize giving heard Brigadier Bruce Jackman, chairman of GWT South West, say a few words about the work of the Gurkha Welfare Trust in Nepal to help the hill community recover from the devastation that they have suffered.

Currently they are providing substantial single room buildings with solar powered lighting as temporary accomm-odation.

These are very basic but will get families through the monsoon until they can build something better to replace their destroyed homes (pictured right).

The money raised could build 15 such shelters in Nepal.

The winners of the event were: Men, Mark Thompson, Matt Boon, Nick Coe and Gene Thompson; ladies, Sally Timpson, Margaret Burn, Pat Pope and Sue Eastwood; mixed, Rod, Matt and Val Jarman and Marion Stenhouse; invitation team, Jerry Lock, Graham Pengelly, Fred Cooke and Malcolm Hill from Lydford.

l Some of the players are pictured above.