Save The Thistle Lawn Bowling Club
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We need your support in raising $10,000 to save the Thistle Lawn Bowling Club.
Since 2013, the Thistle Lawn Bowling Club has been putting the lawn in Lawn Summer Nights London and the incrediBOWL generosity and enthusiasm of the Thistle Lawn members has helped #LawnSummerLDN raise almost $350,000 for Cystic Fibrosis Canada.
This summer, our Thistle Lawn family needs our help. 2020 promised to be a banner year for the club. A new sprinkler system to keep the greens in tiptop shape and tournaments and events – including four faBOWLous nights of LSN – booked throughout the season. Instead, Covid-19 has turned 2020 into a nightmare.
First, the provincial shutdown delayed the start of the lawn bowling season, forcing Thistle to cancel all scheduled tournaments and events. Although the club has now re-opened, continuing Covid-19 restrictions limit attendance to members only so that social distancing can be enforced. This presents a challenge for Thistle Lawn both socially and financially.
To maintain social distance, members can only play “singles” games – a more strenuous lawn-bowling format that not all of their senior citizen membership can manage.
The club isn't eligible for relief funding and, with most of its members on fixed incomes, it isn't fair to ask them for more. With tournament and event income reduced to zero, there is a very real danger that the Thistle Lawn Bowling Club may not survive.
And that would mean “So lawn, farewell” to Lawn Summer Nights London. There isn't another lawn bowling club in London that can accommodate LSN's needs or offer the same level of commitment. And even if we could move to another club, #LawnSummerLDN wouldn't be the same without Edith, Edgar, Kerry, and the rest of the Thistle gang.
The London LSN committee is launching this GoFundMe campaign to raise $10,000 to help Thistle Lawn meet its operating costs for 2020 and tide it over until the 2021 season.
Over the years, the members of Thistle Lawn have gone above and beyond for LSN. They've given us SO much. Providing instruction, offering advice, encouraging our efforts, and cheering our achievements. They've kept score, kept things fair, and kept an eye on our crazy costumes and even crazier antics. They have truly become members of our #LawnSummerLDN team.
With the Thistle Lawn Bowling Club in crisis, it's time for LSN to give back. We're hoping that everyone who was planning to attend #LawnSummerLDN 2020 will instead consider donating their $100 registration fee to the club. Even as little as $25 (the cost of just ONE night of LSN) can bring us a step closer to keeping the club and its members #onthegreens.
And it wouldn't be an LSN fundraiser without prizes! The most generous donor will receive a free private night of lawn bowling for up to 40 people at Thistle Lawn in 2021. A free one-year membership goes to the second most generous donor, while the third most generous donor will be sent a $100 gift card for the local online shopping platform Locorum.
Please donate today and help us bowl the kind folks at Thistle Lawn over with our appreciation, support, and love love LOVE.
Since 2013, the Thistle Lawn Bowling Club has been putting the lawn in Lawn Summer Nights London and the incrediBOWL generosity and enthusiasm of the Thistle Lawn members has helped #LawnSummerLDN raise almost $350,000 for Cystic Fibrosis Canada.
This summer, our Thistle Lawn family needs our help. 2020 promised to be a banner year for the club. A new sprinkler system to keep the greens in tiptop shape and tournaments and events – including four faBOWLous nights of LSN – booked throughout the season. Instead, Covid-19 has turned 2020 into a nightmare.
First, the provincial shutdown delayed the start of the lawn bowling season, forcing Thistle to cancel all scheduled tournaments and events. Although the club has now re-opened, continuing Covid-19 restrictions limit attendance to members only so that social distancing can be enforced. This presents a challenge for Thistle Lawn both socially and financially.
To maintain social distance, members can only play “singles” games – a more strenuous lawn-bowling format that not all of their senior citizen membership can manage.
The club isn't eligible for relief funding and, with most of its members on fixed incomes, it isn't fair to ask them for more. With tournament and event income reduced to zero, there is a very real danger that the Thistle Lawn Bowling Club may not survive.
And that would mean “So lawn, farewell” to Lawn Summer Nights London. There isn't another lawn bowling club in London that can accommodate LSN's needs or offer the same level of commitment. And even if we could move to another club, #LawnSummerLDN wouldn't be the same without Edith, Edgar, Kerry, and the rest of the Thistle gang.
The London LSN committee is launching this GoFundMe campaign to raise $10,000 to help Thistle Lawn meet its operating costs for 2020 and tide it over until the 2021 season.
Over the years, the members of Thistle Lawn have gone above and beyond for LSN. They've given us SO much. Providing instruction, offering advice, encouraging our efforts, and cheering our achievements. They've kept score, kept things fair, and kept an eye on our crazy costumes and even crazier antics. They have truly become members of our #LawnSummerLDN team.
With the Thistle Lawn Bowling Club in crisis, it's time for LSN to give back. We're hoping that everyone who was planning to attend #LawnSummerLDN 2020 will instead consider donating their $100 registration fee to the club. Even as little as $25 (the cost of just ONE night of LSN) can bring us a step closer to keeping the club and its members #onthegreens.
And it wouldn't be an LSN fundraiser without prizes! The most generous donor will receive a free private night of lawn bowling for up to 40 people at Thistle Lawn in 2021. A free one-year membership goes to the second most generous donor, while the third most generous donor will be sent a $100 gift card for the local online shopping platform Locorum.
Please donate today and help us bowl the kind folks at Thistle Lawn over with our appreciation, support, and love love LOVE.
Coorganizadores (3)
Ian Rake
Organizador
London, ON
Carlon Farina
Coorganizador
Other Referral
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