I AM Christine Saunders, lady captain of South Cerney Golf Club.

On Wednesday, April 22, we are holding a huge charity golf match – the St. George’s Eve Scramble.

All money raised is going to help a local chronically/terminally ill child have the day of their short life via The Children’s Make a Wish Foundation.

We are holding an auction after the match and have had a couple of very generous donations from one of our local sporting heroes, David Howell - who is supporting us.

He won The Dunhill Gold Competition in 2013 and has very kindly signed a course flag from the event and an official Dunhill shirt.

We are taking pre-auction bids on our lots and thought readers of the Standard interested in sport or belonging to other local clubs might be interested.

There are 57 of us in the Scramble – —yes, quite a variety – and we will all be wearing red or white for the occasion in some form or other. We would make quite a picture!

I would dearly love to raise £2,000 during my captaincy – the amount normally required to help a child have the day of their short life – because as a child, I watched my dear little brother suffer constantly with his pneumonia.

I wished I could do something, anything, to help him, but I could not. Then, two days before Christmas when he was only eight, he died in hospital.

I can and I must do something now to help another local child who is suffering.

CHRIS SAUNDERS

Horse Fair Lane

Cricklade