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Charity Day Breaks Record

Charity Day Breaks Record

Jeff Ball29 Sep 2016 - 16:02
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Christopher Wallace Day the best one yet.

Cramlington Rockets’ annual charity day was held last week and was a huge success. With an aim of beating last year’s total of £700, a fantastic £954 was raised from the day’s activities, a new record for the event.

Christopher Wallace Day is the Northumberland club’s annual family fun day in honour of Christopher, one of the original Rockets.

When the club was formed back in 2000 as Killingworth Rockets, he was one of six Rockets present for the first training session, the infamously on the local car park as it was the only place with floodlights.

Christopher sadly passed away in 2012 aged on 25 from a heart defect, which is why the club come together every year to raise funds for the British Heart Foundation.

On an exciting and emotional day, the main activity was a series of intra-club matches between the Rockets’ junior section. The headline match was between Rockets Black and Rockets Orange of the U14s, with Black lifting the Christopher Wallace Cup for 2016.

Alongside the rugby was a series of activities including face painting, a ‘Total Wipeout’ course by former contestant and Rockets Coach, Danny Gilroy and impressive bouncy castles that were popular with the ever excitable Rocket Tots.

“Christopher Wallace Day is an important date in our calendar every year” said Rockets Community manager, Steven Beaty.

“Many of Christopher’s friends are still at the club, now as open age players or coaches and it is important to us to remember him. The fact the whole club comes together every year and makes it better every time means a lot to all of us and those who knew Christopher.”

“He was a great character, known for his pranks. Every year we have Wallace Week around his birthday when one of us is chosen to be the victim. It was my turn this year and the result was my car being filled with a metric tonne of sawdust. I think he would have been proud of that one.”

To support the Rockets and the British Heart Foundation, please click here.

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