TORTOLA â Itâs not every day one gets to enjoy the sea with British billionaire Sir Richard Branson and raise money for a good cause doing it.
But thatâs what businessman Allington âGumptionâ Creque and some of his friends did recently at the annual Gumption and Friends windsurfing fundraiser.
When the 30-mile roundtrip trek from Virgin Gorda to Anegada was over, the event had raised its $30,000 goal to benefit a school on each island.
The fundraiser began two years ago when Creque, the owner of Gumption Experience BVI that provides land and sea tours â the latter via glass bottom boat â first windsurfed from Virgin Gorda to Anegada. At the time he raised $10,100 for the Claudia Creque Educational Center on Anegada. This yearâs fundraiser will again benefit the education center on Anegada, and Valley Day School on Virgin Gorda.