The Sportsman’s Social and Clay Shoot set for Nov. 3-4 will benefit the Lord Wedgwood Charity, which provides defibrillation devices in strategic community locations and pre-screens young athletes for heart issues.
The social will be Nov. 3, beginning at 6 p.m. at Iron City in downtown Birmingham. It will include a wine tasting from Novi Vineyards and Winery, a bourbon tasting, and live and silent auctions.
The clay shoot will be held Nov. 4 at Orvis Shooting Grounds at Pursell Farms in Sylacauga. There will be two sessions: a morning session that begins at 8:30 a.m. with registration and breakfast and clay shooting at 9 a.m.; and an afternoon session with registration starting at 11 a.m., followed by lunch at 11:30 and clay shooting at 12:30 p.m.
Tickets are $150 for only the Sportsman’s Social and $2,500 per team or $1,250 per couple for the social and the clay shoot. Those planning to attend can sign up at the charity’s website, lordwedgwoodcharity.org.
The Lord Wedgwood Charity’s mission is to fight sudden cardiac arrest, which claims more than 250,000 lives each year and is a leading cause of death in the United States, according to the organization’s website.
The charity was founded after Lord Piers Wedgwood, international ambassador for Wedgwood china and Waterford crystal, suffered a major heart attack playing golf in Birmingham in 2001.
After his recovery, he was inspired to give back to the community and formed the charity with Birmingham business leaders to place automatic external defibrillators, or AEDs, in community gathering places.
In 2002, Wedgwood and his long-time friend and business partner Frank Bromberg III, with Floyd Larkin and Robbie Robertson, created the Lord Wedgwood Blue Dinner and Wedgwood Link to Life Celebrity Golf Classic to raise funds.
The charity has raised more than $600,000 and has placed more than 450 AEDS and EKG devices across the United States, mainly in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Texas. The charity’s website said at least five lives have been saved due to donations and the awareness it has raised.
Wedgwood died in January 2014.
