Maersk donates £500 to Tony Greener’s swim for Calum’s Cabin

Tony Greener, Maersk’s manager of the UK Fleet Group, last Sunday, 22nd August, swam 10.5km from the head of Loch Striven to Inverchaoliain where the company’s six laid up  ships had been moored. They all returned to service , as we reported, earlier this summer.

The swim was undertaken not just as a personal challenge but to benefit the inspirational Rothesay charity, Calum’s cabin. This was set up in memory of 13 year-old Calum Spiers who died in February 2007 from a brain tumour. Calum’s Cabin every week of the year brings a different family and their sick child, in similar circumstances, for an free holiday in a loveley purpose built house on the Isle of Bute

Already the online account at secure charitable donations site, Just Giving, set up to receive donations give in support of Tony’s swim, is showing a total raised of £2,541,94.

Donations have come from some of Maersk’s ships, very notably Maersk Brooklyn, one of the Loch Striven six and now in the Far East under Captain David Johnstone, who was skipper of the raft of laid up ships here.

Maersk itself is now donating £500 – which does not show on the Just Giving site because its system cannot deal with corporate credit cards.

So the real total now raised for Calum’s Cabin in this personal adventure of Tony Greener’s is £3,041.94 – and still growing.

Please join – through Just Giving – those who have supported this initiative to raise money for a charity that weekly makes a difference to the unimaginable pain of a family in the process of losing a child.