Total Raised £1500

Inter-club and 100 rounds of pad-work fundraiser

On the 13th July 2019, the Skye Muay Thai club in Portree held their first inter-club and fundraiser event to raise money for their community Thai boxing club. Their was clubs from Stornoway (ESTMT), Inverness (HMAC), Sheffield (Wicker Camp) as well as a few regulars from Skye Muay Thai. Tickets were priced at £5 with the first fight starting at 12pm and finishing around 4pm.

Each person had two controlled technical matches, with each fight lasting 3 rounds of 1 minute and a 1 minute rest between rounds.

Along with the inter-club the 3 Skye Muay Thai instructors each completed 100 rounds of 3 minutes of pad-work taking them around 8 hours to complete. The pad-work was split into 20 rounds, with one minute rest. Then after 20 rounds a longer rest was taken in order to recover and be ready for the next set of 20 rounds. This alone raised around £1000 in sponsorship.

Along with the inter-club and pad-work there was also raffle tickets which costed £1 each, or £5 per strip. The raffle raised £275 and prizes included:

• Meal for two at Flodigarrry hotel, Isle of Skye.
• 2 pairs of tickets to MTB show on august 31st (donated by John o Brian)
• 3 luxury hampers (donated by Uig bay campsite/Lisa Madigan
• pair of Revgear kids boxings gloves (donated by revgear)
• private lesson with Rambaa Sombet
• month free membership to Skye Muay Thai
• Buddhist amulets
• £10 voucher to Kyle butchers
• Rug (donated by Edinburgh wollen mill)
• Wonkey wollen gift bag (donated by OR)
• picture (donated by Flowers by Carol)

A reporter from the West Highland Free Press came during the event to take photos and videos for their website, and an article was written for the Free press. The reporter interviewed the gym owner Ali Simpson on his thoughts on how the day went.

Overall, the day was a success with the club raising £1500. The money will go towards buying a boxing ring and mats for the gym and anything else the gym may need.

Skye Muay Thai is a community boxing club with all the money they make going toward keeping the gym up and running. The instructors teach classes voluntarily taking no wages for themself.

To find out more about Skye Muay Thai you can find them on face-book at “Skye Muay Thai”

Currently, the club have classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in Portree from 6-7:30pm. And Tuesday and Thursday in Dornie from 6-7:30pm. There is a womens only class every Sunday, from 2-3:30pm. Classes cost £4 or a monthly membership costs £15 for adults and £10 for kids.