Friends of GOVI cheque presentation

Tony Wright MP for Great Yarmouth presents cheque to Friends of GOVI.  

Tony Wright MP recently presented a cheque to Caister couple, Phil and Joan Feller the trustees of the registered charity Friends of GOVI the Gambian Organisation for Visually Impaired, the only school to support the blind children of the Gambia.

Tony presented the cheque,for £2,500 on behalf of the United Kingdom Parliamentary Football Club, the all party group of parliamentarians based in Westminster of which he is a member and is sponsored by National Grid.  The UKPFC has raised thousand of pounds for charities at home and abroad over the years.

Phil and Joan regularly visit the group of blind and visually impaired children who will benefit from the support received. The children presently  play football with a soft ball containing a bell, in old donated kits and with soft shoes on a rough hard pitch with tape marking the boundaries.

Tony said:

‘It is always a pleasure to be in a position to donate to charities and knowing Phil and Joan’s voluntary work in the Gambia with the visually impaired encouraged me to ask our football club to make a donation. I know the money will be put to good use  in providing a new purpose made goal ball court.‘

Phil Feller said:

‘On behalf of the Friends of GOVI, staff and pupils of the GOVI Resource Centre, a big thank you for the wonderful gift of £2.500.  The dream of a purpose built Goal Ball court will now become a reality, with not so many cuts and bruises from the rocky and hard ground we now play on!’

For more information contact Phil and Joan Feller on 01493 721 506 or go to the Friends of GOVI Website at http://www.friendsofgovi.org.uk/