East of England Regional News

HASSRA East Of England Fun and Free Competition

HASSRA East of England have a fantastic prize for five luck winners!

£200 Hotel Vouchers plus £100 Spending Money

All you need to do to enter is answer the following question and then email the following details to HASSRA East of England:

• Your Answer
• Your Name
• Your HASSRA Membership Number
• question is –Which hotel according to Don Henley and Glenn Frey, has a policy where, you can checkout any time you like, but you can never leave?

Closing date for competition – 13^th August 2010

Biking for BUILD and Benjamin

Five bikes, four days and 263 miles will come together for a team of local public sector workers next month when they swap their desks for the Norfolk highways to raise money for two Norfolk charities.

Five members of the Baltic House branch of HASSRA (a nationwide social club for all staff working in the departments of Health, Work and Pensions and the Food standards agency) are taking to the road to celebrate the organisation’s 75th anniversary, and will be visiting colleagues in Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Cromer, Kings Lynn, Downham Market, Dereham and Diss before finishing up at a family fun day at Swardeston Rugby club on Saturday 10th July.

HASSRA (www.hassra.org) was formed in 1935 and currently has over 70,000 members nationally. It provides an opportunity for staff to engage in sports and recreational activities locally.

The Baltic House (Norwich) branch has decided to use a sporting event to celebrate and promote the club. A group of 6 intrepid cyclists will be taking part in the charity cycle ride around Norfolk to visit all of the jobcentres; they will cover approximately 263 miles over 4 days and complete their journey at a family fun day. They hope that staff from each jobcentre will join them on each leg of their journey, whether on their own individual bikes or as a paying passenger on a tandem!

The money that will be raised via sponsorship, and at the family fun day, will be shared between two local charities BUILD (www.buildnorwich.org.uk) that works with adults and young people with learning difficulties and other disabilities and The Benjamin Foundation (www.benjaminfoundation.co.uk) which exists to help people in Norfolk deal with many of the challenges that life throws at them; whether ‘everyday’ issues such as childcare or heartbreaking problems like abuse and homelessness.

If you would like to sponsor our cyclists please go to the just giving website http://www.justgiving.com/Carol-Goodbody-HASSRA-

If you require any further details please contact Carol Goodbody on 01603 692636  

Helpers & Volunteers Needed

HASSRA East of England are looking for volunteers to help out at events. If you are a qualified referee/umpire, can keep a cricket score-book or are a qualified coach in your chosen sport and are interested in helping HASSRA please let us know for future reference, so that we can add your name to our helpers list. Email the HASSRA East of England team now!