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2 The Link Magazine • November 2002

Hopes for £20,000 from Indu's event
Organisers of a fundraising evening in memory of Inderjeet Bharaj have achieved their target of £10,000 for the Great Western Hospital's
Evolution Appeal.
British Petroleum UK agreed good cause. I cannot thank them evening such a success."
beforehand to double the amount enough for their support. And I'd The money raised will be di-
raised. also like to thank all those who rected to the respiratory unit at the
Two hundred people attended worked so hard to make the Great Western Hospital.
the dinner, auction and entertain-
ment at King Edward's Place in Earthquake relief cash
Wanborough on 5 October to re- Twenty thousand pounds raised by Swindon's Hindu community
member Inderjeet who died of a after the devastating earthquake which hit the Indian state of Gujarat
sudden asthma attack in February in 2000 is now being spent building 12 houses in a new village of 52
in The Prinnells, close to her home homes for families made homeless.
in Grange Park. An exhibition of
Her mother Balbir Bharaj said, the progress was -= ^ «
"Indu touched so many people and put on display by
they wanted to be there to help a the Hindu Samaj at -
the Link Centre dur- «'-
Right, Balbir Bharaj, with her sons
ing the festival of
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Right, a house under "•' "^
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Norman's spirit takes him north

Swindon's intrepid adventurer Norman Butler from Westlea has sold
his trusty rowing boat the Spirit of Swindon to another team attempt-
ing an Atlantic crossing. Now he has the icy wastes off the coast of
Canada in mind as he has been accepted for the transpolar race for the
magnetic North Pole next April.
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Norman with the boat he built to take him to the Caribbean a year ago
Up to 12 teams of two or three Norman is experienced in man-
members will set out from Reso- aging others in extremes, having
lute Bay and ski across 400 miles of supported his rowing partner Phil
frozen arctic ocean, pulling all their Scantlebury across the Atlantic.
supplies with them in sleds. His wife Linda said she was com-
As well as getting back into ing to terms with Norman's next
heavy training for the ordeal, Nor- adventure.
man will also prepare to work in a To sponsor him, call 882197, mail:
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