Hassocks favourite and his fiancée smash their fundraising target
Hassocks stalwart Spencer Slaughter & his fiancée Megan completed the Brighton Marathon on Sunday 10th April, raising over £1000 for St Peter & St James Hospice along the way.
Spencer was tackling his third marathon and finished it in a personal best of 4:04:36 running alongside fellow Robin Josh Hawkes.
Whisper it quietly, but Spencer is now talking about running a fourth having come close to breaking the sub four hour barrier.
Megan meanwhile completed her first marathon in 5 hours 38 minutes, a fantastic effort following 120 training runs over the course of the previous 20 weeks.
In total, the couple have raised £1,142 for St Peter & St James, far exceeding their initial target of £500. If you have not yet donated and would still like to, then please click this link to visit Spencer & Megan’s Justgiving page.
£340 of that was contributed at the Beacon during the Robins’ home fixture against Littlehampton Town through bucket collections, a raffle and a generous whip round organised by the players before the game.
It was nice to see Dave John allowing raffle winners to keep their prizes for once, rather than ‘suggesting’ they leave the bottle of wine behind for the draw at the next home game.
Thank you to everyone who donated on the day – including those supporters of visitors Littlehampton – and to all who have supported Spencer and Megan in their fundraising efforts.
St Peter & St James is obviously a charity very close to the hearts of everyone at the Beacon. They cared for Ann John, the much-missed wife of our chairman Dave, who we sadly lost to cancer eight years ago.
The Hospice receive less than 14 percent of their funding from the Government, relying on their local community for 86 percent of their funds.
£95 helps facilitate one home visit to a patient by a nurse specialist. £44 covers one hour of counselling from their Patient & Family Support Team. £20 can help towards nursing advice and support to a patient by phone.
Every penny raised is therefore vital in enabling them to carry out their work. Hassocks as a football club are proud to support their efforts, and of Spencer and Megan too for their fundraising.
