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It’s been a hectic few weeks, just when I thought things may have calmed down a little I received a few invitations to some outstanding charity fundraising events.

I am on the train as I write, going back home to Bath following a heavy weekend.

First upon Friday night, I was the guest of honour at the Bognor Rugby Club Awards Dinner. Bognor RFC reminded a little of the way Bath Rugby Club used to be – a family club with tremendous camaraderie. At Bognor there is still several family generations playing at the club. One that stood out was Barry, who at 62 years old was still propping for the veteran’s team! His 3 sons play for various teams at the club. 

After presenting the awards and my speech and Q&A, I was dragged into Bognor to enjoy the nightlife. We made the most of a very quiet city centre and danced the night away in a club at the pier.

Saturday saw me on a train to London to attend the Antony Nolan Trust annual Daisy Ball at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane. Every this ball is a must and this year was no different with an awesome cabaret rounded off by a set from the cast of the west end stage show, the Jersey Boys – videos of the some of the amazing acts will shortly be on my YouTube site – check it out and you’ll have a giggle especially at the chap that enters a giant balloon!

April started with the Nordoff Robbins Football Extravaganza at the Hilton Hotel where Eric Cantona was honoured with a lifetime achievement award. Ryan Giggs, Sir Alex Ferguson, Steve Bruce, Gareth Southgate numbered amongst the Man United names that were there in celebration of the achievement.  Teddy Sheringham, Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall and a whole host of other football club managers and entertainment celebrities also joined in the celebration with Russell Watson opening the evening with some well known arias including the iconic Nessun Dorma; Paul Merson closed the night with a flowery and entertaining after dinner speech. The evening raised over £460,000 for Nordoff Robbins – an amazing sum of money which will help them continue there excellent work using music therapy to help people with mental disabilities.

Cantona did not disappoint – his acceptance speech was different, brilliant and brought the house down. What did he do? Asked for quietness and you could hear a pin drop in the 1000 people seated dinner event, waited for a couple of minutes then uttered the words “thank you!” the audience roared. That typified the character and charm of this great footballer.

Yet another great event where music and sport come together to put a great show and at the same time raise vital funds for the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Center. For your diaries our Next Nordoff Robbins Six Nations Dinner, celebrating the career of Leicester and England second row stalwart Ben Kay, will take place on Wednesday 19^th January 2011 at the Hilton Park Lane – visit www.vultd.co.uk/dinners to book your ticket now online.

I played my first round of golf this year at Stoke Park Club last Wednesday at the Cignet St George’s day Golf Day raising funds for the Help For Heroes Charity. It was great to hack around the course watching Glen, who plays on the PGA Seniors  Series, play some sublime strokes. Hw gave me an excellent tip in positioning the direction of my shots when teeing off and this helped my game enormously. Little by little I am determined to master this game which can be hugely frustrating – I guess being built like a brick *%@thouse doesn’t really help! Again fantastic support for the Help For Heroes charity and over £40k was raised that day – well done to the people from Cignet who organised an excellent day.

Our own inaugural St George’s Day Celebrity Golf Challenge was the very next after the above, at Stoke Park. I have to say that I am not as fit as I used to be and having not done any exercise for months woke the morning after and my body ached like hell. Big thanks to the celebrities that turned out on the day: from media and entertainment Robert Powell, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Ian Richards, Phil Daniels, Sion Tudor Owen, Kevin Whately, Tiff Needell from Football Ray Clemence, Dave Beasant, Graham Rix and from Rugby Peter Scrivener and Jason Hobson. See videos from the golf day on my YouTube account and photos at our picture gallery www.vultd.co.uk

Next year’s Celebrity golf day is already scheduled in for Thursday 14^th April 2011 at Stoke Park Club. With the 10 teams that entered this years event already indicting they will be back next year, there isn’t much room for many more teams so do book as soon as you can to avoid disappointment, details can be found at www.vultd.co.uk/