Prison ‘kidnap’ raises Pounds
A RECENT “kidnap” of Cornish personalities at Bodmin Jail has raised Pounds 24,500 for the Merlin Project.
Despite being bundled into cars by masked men and taken to the cells at Bodmin the eight victims of the Merlin kidnapping last November rose to the challenge to get released from their prison cells within two hours.
All had to raise a minimum of Pounds 500 to be given the ‘get out of jail card’, however pledges by friends, families and colleagues exceeded these amounts and the final figure banked was Pounds 24,500. Those kidnapped were Simon Sherrard, chair of the Merlin Project and chair of links of london charms the Port of London Authority, James Staughton, managing director of St Austell Brewery, Pat Harvey chair of Cornwall Council, Peter McGahan, MD worldwide financial planning, Dave Linnell, chief executive Cornwall College, Martin Watts, acting chairman at Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust, Robin Hanbury-Tenison, explorer and writer, and Martyn Headley, governor at University of Falmouth.
Centre manager Lorraine Long, who manages the centre at Hewaswater, between St Austell and Truro, is delighted with the amount raised.
“We are now half way to raising the figure needed to complete phase two of this project which is estimated at Pounds 140,000.”
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