Guests set to be bowled over at Charity Ashes Lunch
By Effective Communication
AS Cardiff gears up to host the Ashes for the very first time, a Welsh cricketing charity is hosting a special lunch to celebrate.
The Lord’s Taverners Wales Region will host an Eve of Test Lunch at the Cardiff Marriott Hotel on July 7th, ahead of the Ashes Test Match at Glamorgan Cricket the following day.
The event will feature cricketing star Matthew Hoggard as a guest speaker, who was famously part of the winning team against Australia in the 2005 Ashes.
Guests will also have the chance to bid for a star prize of two grandstand tickets for the Test Match in London on 16th July, as well as two nights bed and breakfast at the The Regents Park Marriott, with First Class rail travel from London.
The Lord’s Taverners began as a club founded in 1950 by a group of actors who enjoyed a pint watching the cricket from the old Tavern pub at Lord’s Cricket Ground. It is now one of the UK’s foremost sporting charities, raising millions of pounds to help provide young people from disadvantaged backgrounds or with special needs with sports equipment and facilities.
The Lord’s Taverners Wales Region recently provided Ashgrove Special School in Penarth with a specially adapted minibus worth more than £30,000, to help children at the school take part in sporting events.
Chairman of The Lord’s Taverners Wales Region, Ed Meggitt, said: “As a cricketing charity, we’re delighted that the Ashes is coming to Cardiff for the first time. The lunch will be a celebration of the Ashes tradition, as well as helping us to raise vital funds to help give children in Wales a sporting chance.”
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