The octogenarian who has been educating the game in March for over 50 years is holding a fundraising day next Saturday (May 18) at the Neale-Wade Academy sports activities hall in Wimblington Road.
The event is open to everybody interested in gambling badminton, a resource of charities close to Colin’s coronary heart.
Firstly, the Alzheimer’s Society, as his loved wife Margaret died due to the disorder this the final 12 months, and secondly, the eye unit at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon, in which Colin has normal injections to help him keep his sight.
Colin, who turned into featured in the Citizen a few weeks in the past for his achievement in training badminton for five years, desires players of all capabilities to sign up for the fun from 10 am to 4 pm.
He said: “It doesn’t be counted if you’re a beginner or a top participant. Everybody is welcome and could get a sport. Depending on how many people come along, games will probably be ultimate for five or 10 minutes at a time.
“I wanted to do something to mention thank you for the first-rate treatment I have had at the attention sanatorium for the past six years. They are perfect, and additionally, Margaret had Alzheimer’s, so I desired to elevate money for that too. It might be first-rate if some of the ones I have coached over the last 50 years were to come alongside.”
Anyone interested is welcome to flip up on a day. It is £5 to play, and refreshments will be available.
“Peservedt ought to play if they don’t need to; they can just have a drink and a talk; the more, the merrier, clearly,” added Colin, who is still taking badminton instructions twice a week at eighty-three.