Issue 3 - Marham Matters Online

Ride for rafa
Happy Easter
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away from the bustle of the town centre but within walking distance
(10 minutes to the marina and another 5 to the town centre).
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• Modern, spacious purpose built premises • All staff and facilities on one
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Fully independent • Free consultations with nurses
• Mixture of open surgeries and appointments for your convenience
• Full medical and surgical facilities • Dedicated sterile operating theatre
• Dedicated dental suite • Full x-ray facilities • Ultrasound facilities •
In-house laboratory • ECG facilities • Separate dog and cat wards •
Isolation ward • 24 hour nursing cover available
• Computerised record keeping • Pet Passport and Export Services
• Only 2 veterinary surgeons ensuring continuity of care
As part of our aim to give something back to the
community we recently purchased a full set of match
shirts for the Swaffham under 9’s rugby team. We
hope to extend this to other age groups in the future.
Now the quality of the shirts can match the quality
of the rugby!
Ride
For
RAFA
The idea for the event started as a conversation
between SAC Grant Smith and SAC Scott Miller.
We discussed the idea of organising a large scale
charity event and decided to complete a challenge in
a sports discipline that we knew nothing about.
We agreed that
cycling was
a discipline
we had no
knowledge in but also had
plenty of scope for large scale
challenge. With the discipline
chosen all we needed to decide
on now was the challenge.
We started by looking at
the RAF stations throughout
the UK and narrowed it down
to the remaining 17 Flying
stations. We then explored the
mileage that would
have to be covered
between the stations and the
time scale we could set ourselves
to make it an interesting event.
The total mileage would be
around 1,250 miles dependant
on the chosen routes.
Our first thought was to
complete the ride over a two
week period, but although this
was a substantial challenge, we
wanted to push ourselves to
our absolute limits in this new
sport. Speaking with people who
had completed cycling events
before we set ourselves a ten
day time scale making it a
far greater challenge. This
would put our average
mileage per day to 125
miles which we knew
would be a huge ask, but
with the right training we were
confident that we could succeed.
The challenge set now we
needed the cyclists! Grant had
decided from the start this was
something he personally wanted
to do but due to Scott leaving
the Air Force he wouldn’t be
able to take part. The ‘feelers’
went out with colleagues at
work and it didn’t take long to
find two other cyclists - Calum
Parker and Tom Maine. We
now had our three man team.
The next point of the
challenge would be to choose
the Charity we would raise
money for. This decision came
quite easily - The Royal Air Force
Association. We were already
aware of some of the good work
the charity does for serving and
ex serving RAF personnel and
this is an organisation that we
might call on ourselves for help if
our future situations required it.
Next step was to look at the
requirements of a support crew.
It was decided that a minimum of
four people, a Physio/First Aider,
Logistics, Bike Technician and
Road Manager would be required.
The call went out and we soon
had the following volunteers to
make up the support crew – Fg
Off Chris Phipps put himself
forward as the On Road
Manager/Bike Technician,
Jase Garnett as the Bike
Technician, Dave Hurley
as logistics and planning and
Nikki Ward took the position
of Physio/First Aider.
With the support crew
complete we held a meeting
to talk about all the tasks that
would need to be completed to
make the challenge a success.
Getting the training
underway was the first priority
and we were put in touch with
Ian Brown who works at the
gym at Marham. Ian is an ex
Warrant Officer who cycled for
the RAF so we wanted to gain
lots of information from him
as this wasn’t an event we had
any knowledge on. Ian gave
us lots of useful information
about riding. We certainly
hadn’t realised there would be
so much to learn running up to
the ride. We all agreed that Ian
would be an invaluable member
of the team so we asked him
if he would be interested
in being the trainer for the
event. Luckily he said yes.
The groundwork had
been laid, the cyclists now
had to begin their training
and the team had a lot of
planning to do! Watch this
space for further updates…
Our new purpose built premises continue to
receive plaudits but many clients still comment on
the easy access and ample parking which we are
able to provide with our convenient location on
the outskirts of town. We continue to maintain the
personal and professional service that our clients
are accustomed to. We warmly welcome new
clients who wish to register with us.
Opening Times; Monday to Friday 8.30am-6pm Saturday 9.30am-12.30pm
Consultations; Open surgeries; Monday to Friday 9am-10am
Saturday 10am-11.30am
All other consultations by appointment
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