PAKA is a not for profit Association, whose members pleasure fish to raise money for charities and the coaching of young people.
The charities being supported through PAKA fishing events are: Morriston Hospital (Malcolm Lloyd Memorial), Ysgol Crug Glas (in memory of John Barlow's Grandson), MACMILLAN Cancer Support and Marie Curie (Karen Thomas Memorial Shield). Your full support is most welcome for these events.
Your support is required to help Tymeika - Charity competition in January 2019
For those of you who don’t know Keeston resident Tymeika – she is 33, married to James with two children aged 4 & 6 who attend our local school.
Two years ago her life was turned upside down when she suffered a stroke. At the hospital they discovered something odd on her scans & she was later diagnosed with an Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) the term used to describe a tangle of blood vessels with abnormal connections between arteries and veins. There was nothing they could do for Tymeika due to its extent & the effects it was already having on her – full right-side paralysis and ataxia. It sadly also meant that she was terminal.
Tymeika was discharged from hospital with a Zimmer frame; she was left like a wounded animal, in agony, unable to communicate fully with a broken body. She was left dragging herself helplessly around the floor daily and fighting endless battles for her basic needs. In addition she was left grieving the loss of her dignity and independence, left watching the sadness in the faces of those who love her.
But two years on Tymeika is still here, refusing to let her situation swallow her up, no matter the pain she has to endure and the battles she has to continue to fight she refuses to let her diagnosis defeat her. Last Easter a physio team visited to see how she was managing the stairs - she was immediately promised a stair lift, but it has still not arrived. Also a wheelchair which arrived from wheelchair services was incomplete and not fit for purpose. It is draining for Tymeika to stay positive when she is constantly begging for essential life enhancing basic facilities.
To add to her intolerable situation, eight days after Tymeika & her family celebrated her 2 year survival day she cruelly learnt that she now has cancer.
Unfortunately, the NHS as wonderful as it is moves very slowly and for someone who has a terminal diagnosis time is the one luxury she cannot afford.
Therefore we want your help to raise as much as we can to help Tymeika to acquire some basic, much needed essential equipment so that she can lead a life with dignity & comfort – things that we all take for granted.
Alan Duthie
Two years ago her life was turned upside down when she suffered a stroke. At the hospital they discovered something odd on her scans & she was later diagnosed with an Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) the term used to describe a tangle of blood vessels with abnormal connections between arteries and veins. There was nothing they could do for Tymeika due to its extent & the effects it was already having on her – full right-side paralysis and ataxia. It sadly also meant that she was terminal.
Tymeika was discharged from hospital with a Zimmer frame; she was left like a wounded animal, in agony, unable to communicate fully with a broken body. She was left dragging herself helplessly around the floor daily and fighting endless battles for her basic needs. In addition she was left grieving the loss of her dignity and independence, left watching the sadness in the faces of those who love her.
But two years on Tymeika is still here, refusing to let her situation swallow her up, no matter the pain she has to endure and the battles she has to continue to fight she refuses to let her diagnosis defeat her. Last Easter a physio team visited to see how she was managing the stairs - she was immediately promised a stair lift, but it has still not arrived. Also a wheelchair which arrived from wheelchair services was incomplete and not fit for purpose. It is draining for Tymeika to stay positive when she is constantly begging for essential life enhancing basic facilities.
To add to her intolerable situation, eight days after Tymeika & her family celebrated her 2 year survival day she cruelly learnt that she now has cancer.
Unfortunately, the NHS as wonderful as it is moves very slowly and for someone who has a terminal diagnosis time is the one luxury she cannot afford.
Therefore we want your help to raise as much as we can to help Tymeika to acquire some basic, much needed essential equipment so that she can lead a life with dignity & comfort – things that we all take for granted.
Alan Duthie
Cleft Lip and Palate Speech Charity Competition 23 June 2018
We had to change the date at the last minute date which may have affected the turn out but, even so 39 anglers booked in and we had a very successful, enjoyable and money raising charity competition.
A total of 55 fish were caught and a magnificent £700 raised for the charity Kids & Speech Therapy.
Peter Evans scooped the first prize with a 91cm smooth hound and Josh Howells was the Junior prize winner a very nice bass.
Daron Lawry donated the first prize and Laura and Nathan Dyer many of the other prizes, thank you very much.
Rob Mainwaring sponsored the Junior prizes. Many thanks Rob for supporting our up coming anglers again and for your support over a number of years.
Anthony Tyrell commented the comp was an awesome achievement, Haydn Woods said well done to all concerned for a brilliant day, Clive Jones well done to everyone that turned up another good Comp plus big thanks to the people that sponsored the prizes
A total of 55 fish were caught and a magnificent £700 raised for the charity Kids & Speech Therapy.
Peter Evans scooped the first prize with a 91cm smooth hound and Josh Howells was the Junior prize winner a very nice bass.
Daron Lawry donated the first prize and Laura and Nathan Dyer many of the other prizes, thank you very much.
Rob Mainwaring sponsored the Junior prizes. Many thanks Rob for supporting our up coming anglers again and for your support over a number of years.
Anthony Tyrell commented the comp was an awesome achievement, Haydn Woods said well done to all concerned for a brilliant day, Clive Jones well done to everyone that turned up another good Comp plus big thanks to the people that sponsored the prizes
Rob Mainwaring Junior Sponsor
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Junior Prize winners
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Main Junior Prize Winner Josh Howells
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First Prize Winner Peter Evans with Megan Hill
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The competition below is now taking place on Saturday 23 June 2018
SA1 Charity Fishing Competition 25 February 2018 - Barbara Cooze and Gareth Crocker Memorial
We had a brilliant turn out for today's charity match in aid of Marie Curie, raising £1160
55 anglers fished with 9 juniors
Paul Morgan won with 1.19 mtrs of fish
Species caught, Bass, Codling, whiting, rockling and flounder.
1st picture Mal Cooze (left) Gareth Crocker jnr receiving memorial clocks
2nd winner Paul Morgan who took both main prizes
3 Mal and Gareth presenting a cheque of £1160 to Ali from marie Curie
4 juniors receiving their vouchers supplied by Mainwaring Angling centre
55 anglers fished with 9 juniors
Paul Morgan won with 1.19 mtrs of fish
Species caught, Bass, Codling, whiting, rockling and flounder.
1st picture Mal Cooze (left) Gareth Crocker jnr receiving memorial clocks
2nd winner Paul Morgan who took both main prizes
3 Mal and Gareth presenting a cheque of £1160 to Ali from marie Curie
4 juniors receiving their vouchers supplied by Mainwaring Angling centre
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Local businesses that support PAKA and its charity work
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Donna Louise Childrens Boutique
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Llantwit Major Open Competitions for Jade's Wish to Walk
Junior winners receiving their prozes
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Samantha Hazel caught 2 decent fish on her first time out fishing netting this super prize
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I would like to say a HUGE THANK YOU To Sally Owen for all her hard work and her husband, also to Kelly and Mark Quinn for caring and nominating a great time and a great total. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Love from all the family.😘
A total of £1,226 was raised through the competition, also £30 pounds was donated by a gentleman.
Now it's time to find the walker that Jade will need to require to help her build her strength... I am still amazed by amazing and wonderful Sally and everyone at the fishing event.
God bless you all.. For keeping the Jade's dream alive...
"Jade's Wish to Walk"
THANK YOU EVERYONE EVER SO MUCH
Jade and her mum
A total of £1,226 was raised through the competition, also £30 pounds was donated by a gentleman.
Now it's time to find the walker that Jade will need to require to help her build her strength... I am still amazed by amazing and wonderful Sally and everyone at the fishing event.
God bless you all.. For keeping the Jade's dream alive...
"Jade's Wish to Walk"
THANK YOU EVERYONE EVER SO MUCH
Jade and her mum
CLAPA Fishing Competition Sunday 22 January 2017
The Cleft Lip and Palette Association (CLAPA) attracted 55 anglers and raised £795 for CLAPA and £100 coaching sessions. Brooke Jones age 7 years who has gone through many operations to help live with this terrible condition caught the biggest fish of the competition. She beat 48 experienced senior anglers and 6 other juniors. Her Grand Pops never caught a fish all day.
A big thank you to all who helped, participated and most of all who donation so much to help in the work of this wonderful charity.
Thank you, Thank you.
Alan Duthie
This man Alan Duthie is amazing! Throughout all his personal problems he still manages to smile and put smiles on other people's faces! It was a chance meeting at another charity fishing comp we met him and I'm so glad we did! Today with all his help we managed to raise £795 for the South Wales CLAPA branch, none of it would of been possible without him!!! Thank you so much you have made those big smiles even bigger!! #fishingforsmiles you truly are one of life's greatest!
Sammiey Jones ❤❤❤
Thank you every one: Gwyn and Sainsbury's, everyone who gave raffle prizes, Tiz of the Ship Inn, Clive Jones and the SA1 boys.
Charity Fishing Competition
We are organising the following competition on behalf of the Cleft Lip & Palette Association, we have a young junior member who has suffered numerous operations caused by her having a cleft palette at birth, we have raise the the prize money but of anyone would like to donate a raffle prize we would be grateful.
Twelve Knights Hotel Charity Open Competition 15 May 2016
Angela Jones of the 12 Knights Hotel sponsored the competition and the participating anglers raised £230 for Tenovus and PAKA Kids Coaching.
Photos of Angela presenting some of the prizes to some of the many winners.
Photos of Angela presenting some of the prizes to some of the many winners.
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Angela Jones presenting her award (Angel Jones Trophy) to Marshall Mainwaring in recognition of his tireless charity work. Angela and Carl have confirmed they are sponsoring the Twelve Knights open competition to the sum of £500. The event will take place on Aberavon Beach,15 May 2016 fishing from 11am to 3pm. |
Angela Jones presenting the Fishing Holiday to raffle winner Lee Jones
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PAKA Irish Fishing Trip Raffle Prize Worth £900
Update: Lee Jones won the PAKA Irish Fishing Trip Raffle Prize Worth £900, but he did buy £40 of tickets. The raffle raised £500 for Lucy Worrall to help with her rehabilitation. The Twelve Knights Hotel have asked PAKA to do a fishing competition with Brains giving £500 sponsorship. So a very fruitful night on the 20 January. Well done all you members who attended and took part and many thanks. You will recall Marshall Mainwaring won the prize on the night. He then donated it Angela of the Twelve Knights who in turn could not use it due to ill health and gave it to be used for the Lucy Worrall fund. So the prize is to be raffled off again at the PAKA meeting on Wednesday, 20 January 2016 to be held at the Twelve Knights Hotel, Port Talbot, and the money raised will go to the Lucy Worrall Fund. The meeting will start at 7.30pm |
Ray Neal Memorial Match - Cancelled due to adverse weather.
The Ray Neale Memorial & Benefit Match, at LLanstephan on the 17th January 2016. Participants to meet in MacDonald’s, Carmarthen, at 8am.
The Ray Neale Memorial & Benefit Match, at LLanstephan on the 17th January 2016. Participants to meet in MacDonald’s, Carmarthen, at 8am.
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Aberavon Angling Club charity comp 6/9/15
Well Done Mission Accomplished the Karen Thomas Charity Competition was a great success and we have had positive feed back from other anglers who said what a well organised competition from a small fishing club and together we have raised £1000 fantastic !!!!!!! There is a little bit more to come in then we can have a total amount raised ready for the Presentation on the 24th September Here are the results of the competition. Joint first M Cruickshank and P Curtis £162.50 each and a trophy Third D Champion £75 Fourth A Charles £30 Fifth D Lawry £20 Longest fish D Champion £102 The junior results ( under 16's ) 1st Josh Davies £20 vouchers free McDonalds meal and trophy 2nd Ryan Smith £15 vouchers free McDonalds meal and trophy 3rd Gethin Davies £10 vouchers free McDonalds meal and trophy 4th Callum Campion £10 vouchers free McDonalds meal and trophy The top raffle prize was won by our very own Andy Charles £30 of Sainsbury's vouchers. Well done Andy There were many raffle prizes. I have contacted Alan Yates (Sea Angler) with the results. Next meeting at the Red Dragon Moorland Road Thursday 17th September meet 7.30 pm for 8pm start Cheers Gwyn Thomas |
Cheque for £1300 presented to Sara Bass of Marie Curie on 24 September 2015 by Aberavon Angling Club.
Gwyn Thomas is a very proud man and he thanks all who contributed and participated.
14yr old Josh Davies from Llanelli he won the junior prize in the competition. Josh has been accepted as part of the PAKA coaching programme and this was his 1st comp. under the tuition of Clive Jone and Daron Lawry. and Josh is a PAKA success story he has represented PAKA at Welsh international level.
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Lee Jones jumped for charity, raising money for a good cause
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Cheque Presentation
Picture (left) Lee Jones of the Pleasure Anglers and Kayakers Association during the actual charity sky dive, Picture (right) from l/r Carl Jones of the Twelve Knights hotel with his wife Angela, Chris Purdue and Bella Tudor of Y Rhosyn Palliative care unit in Port Talbot, where Angela is an out patient of the care unit. The £1000 raised will help with the care of patients in the unit.
Picture (left) Lee Jones of the Pleasure Anglers and Kayakers Association during the actual charity sky dive, Picture (right) from l/r Carl Jones of the Twelve Knights hotel with his wife Angela, Chris Purdue and Bella Tudor of Y Rhosyn Palliative care unit in Port Talbot, where Angela is an out patient of the care unit. The £1000 raised will help with the care of patients in the unit.
Skydive Swansea promotes and helps people raise funds for charities through tandem skydiving. Through individual efforts at fundraising by skydiving people have the option to experience the thrill of skydiving and help raise much needed funds for charity. Lee Jones is did a skydive on August 17 to raise money for Ty Rhosyn Palative Care Unit in Port Talbot. 100% of the money raised is going to Ty
Rhosyn Palative Care Unit. Lee will be paying the full cost of the skydive £220 as his contribution along with all the donations which raised £1000.
Angela the stewardess of the 12 Knights Hotel, Port Talbot is being cared for in Ty Rhosyn Palative Care Unit. Angela and the 12 Knights have been fantastic supporters of PAKA and our charity fund raising competitions so we want to try and raise as much as possible to help Angela and the work of Ty Rhosyn Pallative Care Unit. Lee Jones came up with the offer to make a difference and we support him whole heartedly with his preparation and money raising. Angela is continuing to sponsor PAKA charity fishing competitions to the tune of £500.
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Money raised in 2013
YSGOL CRUG GLAS £1,000 MORRISTON RENAL £ 600 KIDS COACHING £ 508 MARIE CURIE £1,100 |
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Money raised in 2012
RNLI £1,000 MORRISTON RENAL £ 600 KIDS COACHING £ 590 KIDS COACHING £ 86 MACMILLAN £ 853 MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING £ 264.24 |
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For more information about these charities and the outstanding work they do just click on their respective logos above. Then you will see why PAKA raises money for them through pleasure fishing activities.