The original Paddle for Life started after lifeguards from Fistral Beach held a Joe Way memorial paddle to raise money for charity in 2008. Joe is the inspirational little boy who touched people's lives around the country and beyond. His story of hope and fighting against all the odds with a cheeky smile has made what could have been the worse of times the best of times.
Our aim is to raise awareness of Joe’s story and inspire people to raise money for their chosen charity, to promote the paddle as a community event for people of all abilities and within five years to have 50 paddles and to raise £50,000 for various charity’s.
The star of ITV’s “The Bill” Ben Richards, and long board champion Ben “Skindog” Skinner took to the waves to launch the Newquay Paddle for Life. Ben Richards enjoyed some surf lessons from Europe’s finest at the Skindog Surf School, and the duo signed one of Skin dog’s ex-competition boards which will be auctioned at the Newquay paddle.
Signed one off concept "LONG BOARD" and "ITV's The BILL" signed script.
As Ben Richards said on Pirate FM you can enter the draw for this one off Skindog concept board when our draw registration goes live on Sunday 9th July at midday don’t miss this opportunity to own this display piece and a signed script from ITV's The BILL.
please get involved here http://www.joeway.info/paddle
It was a great day and as you can see Ben Richards was up and riding in no time with the team at Skindog Surf School!
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