The Vault, Swansea, doors: 7pm, first auction: 8pm
Late licence, live music, drinks promos and a few very special surprises…
On Wednesday the 3rd of February the Swansea-Gambia Link hosts the Auction of Promises at The Vault under No Sign Wine Bar. Last year was an outstanding success raising over £3000, and this year we hope to do even better!
We’re happy to take group bids on the bigger prizes, so get together with a few friends and you could have surf lessons, a pancake breakfast with Peter Davies or a week in plush Galway seaside cottage.
As well as the auction we have plenty of entertainment including Dave Williams playing live, drinks promotions, a late licence and some very special surprises that we’ll reveal on the night!
On the night of Wednesday 28th January, the Swansea-Gambia Link held its largest fundraising event of the year with the second annual ‘Auction of Promises’. ‘The Cricketers’ had been transformed for the evening from a local Swansea pub into an all singing, all dancing, cabaret themed auction room to host the occasion. The entire event was a great success with over £3000 being pledged towards the link and a night of live music and dancing (provided by our very own Swansea medical students) being enjoyed by all. The highlight of the evening’s entertainment belonged to the five piece act of Henry Boyle, Robby Green, Ben Woodman-Smith, Sebastian Tindall and Tomos Watkin who performed with choreographed precision Girls’ Aloud, ‘The Promise’. Truly quite something to behold, perhaps not if you were to be a future patient of one of theirs though!
A generous sum of £3000 was awarded in December 2008 by the Tropical Health and Education Trust (www.thet.org.uk). This Link has developed an action plan and this funding will allow the first stages of this to be implemented.
Swansea-Gambia Link Talent Show - photos
Written by Administrator
Friday, 27 June 2008
The Talent Show , organised by the Swansea medicine students, was a great success. Acts from the students themselves, doctors from the NHS Trust, housemates, friends and family included pop and ethnic dancing, music and song. The night raised £300 for the link. Here are some photos from the night, and I hope the students will add some more information to their section.
Here are some of the acts:
The Sundrops (Helena Wilcox and Mike Carnell, 1st year medical students).
Health the Gambia Supports Shipping of Tissue Processor
Written by Administrator
Saturday, 05 April 2008
As part of the pathology project, a decommissioned tissue processor has been donated from the Swansea NHS Trust to the pathology department at the Royal; Victoria Teaching Hospital. Prior to this, all tissue specimens for analysis in the Gambia were being processed by hand - a laborious and time-consuming process. The tissue processor will greatly increase the number of samples that can be prepared and also free-up valuable staff time for other tasks.
We are very grateful to the charity Health The Gambia (http://www.healthgambia.net/) for funding the shipment of the processor.
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