Bowls club’s £2,480 for C’Siders

Cancer support group

C’Siders was bowled over to receive a cheque for £2,480 from the Moonfleet 2000 Bowls Club.

At the cheque presentation, C’Siders chairman Peter Meacham thanked bowling club members for their generosity, explaining that the donation will help fund weekly exercise classes on Portland and monthly social events. The exercise classes, called C’Fit, are specially designed for cancer patients and are run by Dawn Hague, a cancer rehabilitation exercise specialist, at Osprey Leisure Centre every Wednesday.

The support group hosts a tea and coffee afternoon on the first Thursday of each month at Anning House Care Home in Cross Road, Weymouth. The next meeting is on March 2 at 3.45pm. An evening with a guest speaker takes place on the third Monday of each month at The Moonfleet 2000 Bowls Club in Knightsdale Road, Weymouth. The next meeting is on March 20 from 7pm to 9pm.

There are table tennis sessions on Mondays from 2pm to 4pm at Wyke Regis Community and Sports Club in Ryemead Lane Weymouth. Sessions are open to anyone for £2 a head.

A spokesperson for C’Siders, which has been running for six years, said: “We are appealing to any sports groups, companies or organisations who may be able to help us to please get in touch.

“We are always happy to come and talk to you about what it is we do and to see if there is any help you can give us.

“As a small local charity, the only sources of funding we have are from the sales of merchandise and the generosity of local businesses, clubs and societies.

“This has become much more important since covid has reduced our face-to-face fundraising activities so much.” n For more information on C’Siders visit www.csiders.org or email info@csiders.org

Encore Singers will host a concert in aid of C’Siders at Dorchester’s United Church in South Street on March 25 at 7.30pm. Entry is free and no tickets are required. Light refreshments will be served in the interval and a retiring collection will be held for C’Siders at the end of the show.