The Richmond Shag club's charity of choice is Camp Fantastic, a program of Special Love, Inc. Camp Fantastic is a nonprofit that provides a strong, nurturing environment for children with cancer and their families; through its free camps and get-away weekends, emergency financial assistance and educational scholarships for young adults. Camp Fantastic is a week of summer fun where kids with cancer can interact with other kids fighting the same disease. Creating friendships with other kids suffering through the same thing has proven to be beneficial.
Camp Fantastic provides all sorts of recreation, parties and exciting activities for more than 100 youngsters age 7 to 17 every summer. A full medical staff from the National Institute of Health (NIH) is on-site to watch over their medical needs, which are ever present. This relationship allows Camp Fantastic to accept even the sickest children, who otherwise would have no camp options.
Richmond Shag club is very proud of the fact that over the last 30 years the members, working on various fundraisers, like a charity golf tournament, silent auction etc., have contributed over $340,000 dollars to help sponsor and enable kids to attend.
| RSC Annual Camp Fantastic Contribution History Cumulative Total: $375,871
1989: $1,000 1990: $1,025 1991: $1,050 1992: $6,200 1993: $5,625 1994: $5,000 1995: $5,453 1996: $5,083 1997: $5,000 1998: $5,250 1999: $6,000 2000: $6,500 2001: $6,500 2002: $9,000 2003: $6,500 2004: $5,000 2005: $10,000 2006: $12,500 2007: $16,100 2008: $20,000 2009: $18,300 2010: $20,000 2011: $16,000 2012: $16,400 2013: $15,800 2014: $13,200 2015: $16,100 2016: $15,600 2017: $21,485 2018: $22,300 2019: $22,400 2020: $4,400 * 2021: $14,500 2022: $20,600 * Reduced amount due to COVID and cancellation of major fundraiser |
