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GHG become London Irish RFC Kit Sponsors for 2008/2009 season.
You are probably already aware of our involvement with London Irish as current Player Sponsors of Shane Geraghty and Delon Armitage.
This season we have also been given the opportunity to extend that involvement to becoming kit sponsors to the first team for the 2008/2009 season.
This deal will see our logo gracing the sleeves of the London Irish Rugby Football club team jerseys throughout the season and we hope that this will include a number of television appearances.
The sponsorship deal commences on 01 November 2008 and I am delighted to advise that the first match thereafter, London Irish v Ospreys in the EDF Cup will take place the following day, Sunday 02 November 2008.
This will be the first chance for us to see the new kit and I am advised that the match will be televised albeit on BBC Wales. I am sure that other televised matches will follow.
Having worked with the Commercial and Marketing Teams at London Irish Rugby Football Club over the last 4 years we have noticed that their professional, yet friendly approach mirrors our own company ethos and this has enabled us to form a strong bond with James Durbin, Kelly Adey and all of the Team at London Irish.
We hope that you will join us in wishing London Irish all the best for the season and we hope that a number of our friends will be able to join us at one of the matches as the season progresses.
If you would like to see more details of London Irish their website address is www.london-irish.com
Graham J High
London Irish Rugby Football Club
End of Season Dinner 2007
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Graham High Presenting GHG Sponsored Player Delon Armitage with 'Back of the Year 2008', LIRFC Awards 2008
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Graham High and GHG Sponsored Player Dominic Shabbo, May 2008
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Graham Highand GHG Sponsored Player Delon Armitage, May 2008
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Graham High and GHG Sponsored Player Shane Geraghty, May 2008
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Graham High and GHG Sponsored Player Shane Geraghty
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Graham High Presenting Phil Murphy with Most Improved Player Award, LIRFC Awards 2007
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Graham High and GHG Sponsored Player Delon Armitage
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May 2007
Dartmoor Double Marathon 2007
The challenge
For a team of four to complete two double marathons across Dartmoor, Devon, in two days.
The Time
5th-6th May 2007
The Team
The Special K’s, Katie Seaman, Kirsty Jenner, Jenny Katsoni, Chris Kabban, all students at Southampton University.
The Charity
SIC – Students for international Change (www.sic.org)
The intrepid team reported as follows:
The Special K’s travelled down to Dartmoor on the Friday of the May bank holiday weekend in a convoy of minibuses with the other 30 competitors, not the best time to have chosen as we soon found out. Six and a half hours and a visit from a friendly RAC man later we arrived at our bunkhouse, “The Pluming feathers”, desperate for our beds. Instead we were faced with an orienteering lesson and the realisation that we had to be up at 6 o’clock the next day to start walking. At 2am our tired heads hit the pillow but none of us got very much sleep!!
The morning call came up we got and off we went. Teams left at ten minute intervals but we were overtaken before we even reached the first checkpoint by a team of four boys, who took it upon themselves to run the whole double marathon, each their own!!
The first three miles turned out to be some of the hardest of the weekend. Faced with a featureless moor, scattered in deep bogs and only, a bearing, a compass, and a map to guide us to the next checkpoint we trudged across thick tufty grass and wet boggy ground, just hoping that we were heading in vaguely the right direction. The first three miles continued to be this kind of terrain, it took us almost two and a half hours and as a team we felt deflated!!
Thankfully the terrain changed the sun was shining and we had a great rest of the day. The last stage was climbing to the top of “The Great-Mis Tour”, not what your legs want having already walked over 20 miles but it was worth it just for the clear views over the moor. After 11 hours walking it was back to the bunkhouse for some well deserved dinner and a long sleep.
The next day we woke up to something we’d all been dreading, the mist was low outside and the rain was falling steadily. Not letting it get us down we soldiered on, having been one of the slowest teams the day before we were the first to leave. It was so hard to maintain high team moral, we knew we were only half way there, our legs were heavy, our muscles ached and even after a couple of miles we were soaked through, and we were even overtaken again by the first checkpoint.
However, although the sun wasn’t quite shining the rain did dry up by 12 o’clock and although it hurt just as much to put one foot in front of the other at least we were dry, and even happy. Until the last 5km that is, this is when the heavens opened and one of our team Kirsty really started to struggle. Her knees were uncomfortable and she had awful blisters on her feet but then the pain really hit her. She told us she didn’t think she could actually finish, but we started together and we were going to finish it together. In the pelting rain Chris put Kirsty on his back and Jenny and I took one pack on our back and one on our front and struggled to the end.
As we sat in the pub drying off and reflecting on our experience over the weekend we were totally drained, barely even having the energy to eat, but elated at what we had achieved both for the charity and for ourselves.
July 2007
Tanzania HIV/AIDs outreach project 2007
GHG are sponsoring Katie Seaman a medical student from Southampton University who is embarking on a new challenge. On July 21st 2007 she will fly out to Tanzania, Africa, to take part in a 5 week HIV/AIDs outreach project.
Kate has commented as follows:
I am involved in an HIV/AIDs charity in the UK and I have now decided that it’s about time that I got some hands on experience of the real problem that we are attempting to deal with and raising money for.
I am travelling out to Tanzania with a fellow medical student Catriona Roberts and while we are out there we will be working with a group of ten to fifteen others, who have all arranged there placements through a UK based company called Work the World. As a group we will be teaming up with Dr Tekle Asmerom of the SDA Medical Centre in Arusha, Tanzania, to run a 5-week project.
The main aim of the project is to improve knowledge and understanding of HIV and to educate the population in being able to protect themselves against HIV. We have two areas of focus the first is to educate in schools, particularly with the 15-18 age group, using a series of informal workshops and activities such as sports to stimulate interest. The second will be to explore ways of improving opportunities for people already living with HIV in the Arusha area. This will include spending time at orphanages and centres providing training and support for HIV positive people and offering assistance based on the individual skills of project participants.
There is a huge problem with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2006, 63% of all people infected with HIV were living there and in that year alone an estimated 2.8 million more became infected – more than in the rest of the world put together. I think to be able to fully appreciate the scale of the problem you need to have experienced it hands on. I am really excited about being able to contribute in the fight against the spread of HIV in Tanzania.
April 2004
This photograph shows Vanessa Brett, wife of Jonathan Brett, at the finish of the London Marathon 2004 whilst being sponsored by GHG. Well done Vanessa!
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