Golf couple tee up a £2,000 boost for cancer charity
AVALLEY couple have got charity fundraising off to a tee after organising and taking part in a charity golf day.
Dave and Susan Densfield, of Helmshore, raised £2,066.37 for Rosemere Cancer Foundation from the event at Green Haworth Golf Club, which took place less than a year after Dave had been diagnosed with throat cancer.
Dave is an area sales manager for industrial plugs and sockets company Gewiss, who sponsored the fundraiser together with Polypipe.
He underwent a gruelling treatment regime of six weeks of daily radiotherapy, then six weeks of weekly chemotherapy following his diagnosis in October last year.
He has since been given the all clear, meaning a welcome return to the greens.
Dave said: “I am now two and a half stones lighter, which has affected my swing but that’s not a problem as it’s so wonderful to just be out there playing again.”
Dave and Susan, who are both ex-services, had 25 teams of four play the golf day itself.
A similar number also attended an evening presentation at the club, which saw entertainment by vocalist Nicky Lynch and comedian John Styles, son of England’s 1966 football world cup winner Nobby Styles, who also took the gavel for a fundraising auction.
Among the items auctioned were rare photographs of Nobby donated by John.
He split the money they raised between Rosemere Cancer Foundation and dementia charities for which he fundraises in his dad’s name following his father’s death last December of Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia.
Susan, a former Lady Captain of Green Haworth Golf Club, said: “We would like to thank everyone who supported the golf day and evening.
“They were meant to be on the same day but unfortunately, the weather was so bad that we had to postpone playing golf to a date two weeks later!”
As well as the money from the golf event, Dave also raised £1,900 for Rosemere Cancer Foundation last December while in the thick of his cancer treatment by taking the ice bucket challenge.