For Non-Golfers: The Brun Bear Foundation Annual Golf Day

Guests arrive from 9.00 am…

9.30am – Museum Tour 1 (30 mins)

10.00am – Museum Tour 2 (30 mins)

10.45 am – Museum Tour 3 (30 mins)

11.00am – Coffee & Bacon Rolls / Muffins (vegetarian options available)

12.00 – Golfers starting on furthest tees make their way out

12.30pm – Shotgun Start, 18 holes

5.30pm – Finish golf (with time for guests to shower, change, go to the bar)

6.30pm – Museum Tour 4 (30 mins)

(In the period between Museum Tour 4 and the Tasting all the teams scores are checked and tabulated to determine the winners of the various prize categories.)

7.15pm – Tasting (30 mins)

7.45pm – Guests move to the Dining Room

8.00pm – Dinner served

9.00 pm – Prizes awarded by our Special Guests

9.30pm – Finish Dinner

9.35 pm The briefest of brief speeches from The Brun Bear Foundation.

9.40pm – Auction

11.00 pm – Carriages

The Brun Bear Foundation is the result of founder Edwin Lampert’s dedication to honouring the promise he made to his father while undergoing radiotherapy for brain cancer. The treatment led Edwin’s father to believe he and his family lived with two kindly bears – Brunhilfer and Brunfin, the Foundation’s namesakes – and he sought Edwin’s promise that he would look after these bears “when the time came”.

When his father sadly passed away in 2014, Edwin set about creating a charitable foundation that would honour both his father’s memory and the values he held most dear. Since then, The Brun Bear Foundation has raised and donated thousands of pounds to numerous projects and causes in the fields of medical research, community projects and, in keeping with the promise he made to his father, animal welfare with a special emphasis on bears.

Staffed entirely by volunteers, The Brun Bear Foundation continues to work tirelessly in supporting new and existing causes and projects, whilst upholding and promoting its inclusive ethos and vision, as well as hopefully, in some small way, helping Edwin look after his father’s bears.

The Brun Bear Foundation has donated thousands of pounds to a mix of local, medical and animal welfare charities. Every year we aspire to do more!

Locally we have…

• Provided funding for a Community Fit Bus
• Delivered health and wellbeing events
• Funded theatre experiences for every child under five in Lewisham
• Supported the beautification of parks, play areas and communal spaces in Lewisham and Bromley
• Delivered children’s book readings in the community for all
• Offered work experience and mentoring to local students

Medically…

• Funded research into better and kinder treatments for children with Leukaemia
• Purchased an incubator for a hospital in Uganda.
• Supplied more than 8,000 Wellbeing Wallets for expectant mothers at Lewisham Hospital
• and Princess Royal.
• Supported early pregnancy information evenings and maternity education (mothers and
• midwives).

Animal welfare…

• Provision of food and medical supplies for bears as well as CCTV at a sanctuary that keeps the bears in and the poachers out
• Purchased a Centrifuge for the China Bear Rescue Centre in Chengdu
• Co-founded The Wild Bear Award which supports the use of technology in bear conservation.

Student Awards...

The Brun Bear Foundation offers The Simon Shades Award Programme. This is an annual, merit-based competition which supports a talented student during their studies and has at its heart a project-based elements that allows the candidate to have a meaningful experience that is personally and professionally rewarding.