# Trustee raises £23,000 for Fight for Sight

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/07/12/trustee-raises-23000-fight-sight/
- Published: 2004-07-12T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Clive Stone, a trustee of Fight for Sight, has raised £23,000 for the charity on
a sponsored trans-Atlantic sail.
Clive sailed across the Atlantic non-stop on a 
3,000 mile journey from Gran Canaria to St Lucia at the end of 2003.

Clive, of Kenilworth in Warwickshire left behind his wife, three sons and eleven
grandchildren on November 23 2003 to skipper a four-man crew on his cutter-rigged
sloop.

He arrived at St Lucia on December 12 – just 19 days later. The trip took 14 months
to plan.

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“The weather was mainly on our side,” Clive said, “although we had some dramatic
moments as well!”

While most trustees won’t be able to sail across the Atlantic, how many of them 
have directly helped you fundraise recently? Or perhaps you haven’t asked them recently?

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