A huge thank you to Graham Moore and Kieron Bryan for their fundraising efforts for Post Pals! 🙂

Shebbear College hosted a hugely successful Wine & Wisdom night on Saturday, March 22nd. Nearly 150 people attended the event in North Devon, and apart from brain-bending questions, copious amounts of wine being drunk and laughs all round, £812 was raised for Post Pals!

This figure will be increased to £1500, following a joint donation from the ‘Free Kieron’ fund.

‘Free Kieron’ was set up after a former pupil of Shebbear College was imprisoned in Russia, at the end of 2013. As a video journalist, Kieron Bryan was working alongside Greenpeace who were protesting oil drilling in the Arctic. Their ship The Arctic Sunrise, was seized and he was jailed for two months along with the rest of the group, who became known as the ‘Arctic 30.’ During that time the local community and his old school raised money to help support his legal case.

One of Kieron’s former school-mates, Graham Moore, defied his doctors and joined a protest to free the Arctic 30, held outside the Russian Embassy in October last year. Graham was undergoing treatment for cancer at the time, and his amazing show of support and compassion affected the Bryan family so much that they decided to help support a charity of Graham’s choice.

He chose Post Pals, and it’s because of Graham’s heroic efforts that the Wine and Wisdom was organised. The Shebbear community and the Bryan family are delighted to be able to give to such an amazing charity.