Powerboat Champion has a smashing time with 500 Easter Eggs!
Powerboat racer Shelley Jory-Leigh will started the race season earlier than all her P1 counterparts this year; as on Tuesday 30th March she battled against the clock to deliver 500 Easter Eggs by road and water to some of the South Coast’s most disadvantaged children.
The Charity challenge, organised in conjunction with Shelley’s new sponsor, Rotary Watches, Sainsbury’s Hedge End store and Wave 105 Cash for kids saw Shelley and her team set off from the Hedge End store at 10.00am. She then visited three destinations in the Southampton area, as quickly as she could, to deliver Easter eggs to carefully chosen charities, namely: Southampton General Hospital children’s cancer ward, Mansbridge School and the Hampshire Autistic Society’s Hope Lodge School.
She promptly took to the seas by speeding over to the Isle of Wight in her Cougar Powerboat to deliver more eggs to Beaulieu House Respite Care for Children, who eagerly awaited her arrival at Sainsbury’s Newport store. Shelley then powered back to the Hedge End store to meet the Simon Says Charity for the last delivery of eggs and succesfully beat the time of 5 hours set by Sponsors Rotary Watches.
Shelley set off on her Mission Impossible from Sainsbury’s Hedge End Store with the help of newly appointed Sainsbury’s Store Manager Mike Hawker, Radio DJ Steve Power of Wave 105 and her official timekeeper, the UK Sales Director of Rotary Watches, Thomas Tope.
Shelley says “I have been very fortunate in all aspects of my life and I have experienced so many wonderful things and places whilst powerboat racing. I have met some very inspiring people through the work I do with the numerous charities I work with and I am also patron of Wave 105’s Cash for Kids. Over the past few years, I have worked closely with the team at Sainsbury’s Hedge End Store promoting the work that they do within the local community and with the Hampshire Autistic Society for which I am an ambassador.”
She continues “We were looking for a Charity challenge that my new sponsors Rotary could get involved with before the official start of the racing season and the team came up with the idea of an Easter Egg drop against the clock. Rotary Watches donated 500 Easter Eggs for the children and Sainsbury’s provided Easter cakes for the nurses, staff and teachers. The main aim of the day was to have fun and put a smile on the 500 children’s faces we visit but my competitive side always gets the better of me and I was determined to smash the time set and not end up with egg on my face”
