Annual Midlothian Minnows

The 7th Annual Midlothian Minnows took place at the Mercat Gait Pool in Prestonpans on Saturday 16th May. Swimmers aged 8 to 12 took part from eight competing clubs. A lot of good times were put in despite it being the 1st competition for some of the younger swimmers. Midlothian did well, leading in the 1st half, but were overtaken in the second half by Hearts and Kelso. Kelso took the Minnows trophy back home with them beating Hearts by a mere 10 points and Midlothian by 13.

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Sponsorship

With the Midlothian Minnows meet fast approaching I would like to ask everyone with links to the club for any suggestions of potential sponsors for this event that you can come up with. Perhaps your employer (or your own business) would benefit from a sponsors advert in the meet program. Perhaps your employer has marketing merchandise that could be added to the prizes. Perhaps you would like to hear your company announced as a race sponsor. There are many possibilities and opportunities for sponsors so please send me your contacts / suggestions.
If you are interested in joining the sponsorship team then I would also be pleased to hear from you.

Many thanks, Fergus MacKay.      fmackay@mydesk.plus.com

Bag Packing/Fund Raising Update

Sorry, a little late in reporting this but the last bag packing stint just after Christmas involved a record 56 swimmers and made the club a massive £1607.  Thanks to everyone who turned up and special thanks to Dianne Graham and Yvonne Gray for their continued fantastic efforts in fund raising events – where would we be without them!  The next bagpacking date is Sunday 26 April – get it in your diaries.

Our fundraising account is now the healthiest its been for years and the Fund Raising Committee are actively considering the best way to use and manage the money.  The latest donation is to the Forres Trip happening this weekend.  The Committee also decided that the portion of sponsorship money donated to the club from the 10k swim organised by Vicky should be split 50% to Vicky’s Malawi appeal, and 50% to the fundraising account for future use.

Olympic Challenge 10k Swim

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On Sunday the 15th of February, at The Penicuik Centre, 35 swimmers from the club took part in a 10k swim (400 lengths) to raise money for the club. The 10k distance is swimmings equivilant of a marathon so it was a tough event for all who took part. Some of the younger swimmers did the swim in teams of two.

The first swimmer home was Jack Bisset in an great time of 2 hours and 21 minutes closely followed by Lisa Fraser in a time of 2 hours 23 minutes. All other single and team swimmers completed the 10k successfully and a special mention to Michael Flynn who was the youngest swimmer to complete the swim.

There was a great atmosphere at the event and lots of encouragement as swimmers began to tire.

Thanks to the Staff of the Penicuik Centre and to all the helpers. It looks like we have managed to raise over £1000 for the club and I have managed to raise over £600 for my trip to Malawi.