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The 5th Oliver Wilson D.A.R.E. Charity Golf Day & Dinner took place on Monday 5th September 2011 at the prestigious SHERWOOD FOREST GC in Nottinghamshire. Thank you to everyone who took part in this years event and helped raise much-needed funds for the wonderful work done by D.A.R.E., my chosen charity that delivers life skills and drugs education across the UK.

The 4th Annual Oliver Wilson D.A.R.E. Charity Golf Day & Dinner Dance took place at the Hollinwell Golf Club in Nottinghamshire on Thursday 24th June 2010.

I would like to say a very big thank you to everyone involved in supporting my golf day this year, it was a huge success. Pete Harrison from my sponsors Callaway donated some amazing prizes, Redbull UK supplied something to give us wings and many thanks to individual supporters MMIB and AMS Solutions. Production Matters donated the production for the evening so a big thank you goes to Simon Rogers for organising that. I would also like to say thank you as always to Pellacraft who help with the logistics of the day alongside Winn Marketing who were our event organisers.

Thank you to my coach, Hugh Marr, who helped me with the golf clinic, that went down really well and we had some great feedback about it. Without our celebrities we wouldn't have had such a funny but interesting Q&A session, thanks to Tony Woodcock, Ian Woan and Chris Broad who entertained us all with some of their stories, all hosted by our MC Tim Stimpson. Teddy Sheringham unfortunately couldn't stay for the evening event but thanks to him for playing during the day.

It was a fun-packed evening of entertainment, including an auction with superb prizes up for grabs! Our auction was very exciting with a live telephone bidder from the USA who won the F1 package to Abu Dhabi! The night's entertainment was rounded off with a stunning performance by X-Factor's Candy Rock. A brilliant night and one that I hope to repeat and go one step better next year.

Overall I am very proud to say that we raised a massive £18,408 for D.A.R.E. UK.

David Gilbert, CEO of D.A.R.E. UK said, "On behalf of all at D.A.R.E. UK I would like to express a huge and sincere thank you to Oliver Wilson, for all of his support in helping to raise valuable funds through his annual Golf day and Dinner dance. Without his ongoing support it would make it all the more difficult for us to deliver our programmes into schools, in what are very challenging times."

Thank you for your support and I look forward to seeing you again next year!