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Event: Have dinner with rugby legends in Lyon while supporting our charity!

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The Serge Betsen Academy (SBA) has the pleasure to be the beneficiary of the dinner organized by the Comité de Rugby Rhône Métropole de Lyon (CD69). On this occasion, we will gather rugby enthusiasts in Lyon on the Thursday evening before the Top14 Semi-Finals.

A cocktail followed by a seated dinner with Serge Betsen and rugby legends is planned at Parc des Vallières on June 19. The objective of this event is to raise funds to improve the well-being of disadvantaged young people in Cameroon and Mali. The profits from the evening will go directly to the Serge Betsen Academy charity.

The Serge Betsen Academy needs the support of donors and partners to finance its programs and thus strengthen the social and professional integration of young people who do not see a future without the help of an association like ours.  We are counting on your presence on June 19!

Dinner date: Thursday June 19, 2025, at 7 p.m., before the Top 14 Semi-Finals at Groupama Stadium

Location: Le Parc des Vallières, 57 rue des Vallières, 69390 Vourles, Salle Amélia

The program will be as follows:

  • Cocktail,
  • Seated dinner with Serge Betsen and rugby legends,
  • Animation by Le Ballon Responsable (LBR) which recycles rugby balls into bags, wallets, …,
  • Testimonials and auctions,
  • Musical entertainment.

Please book a table to spend an evening of solidarity with your colleagues, clients and friends:

  • Table for 8 people: 1440 euros,
  • Table for 10 people: 1800 euros.

You can also register individually at the price of €180/person.

To support the event as a sponsor, have dinner with a rugby legend and benefit from great visibility, contact us!

SBA: contact@sergebetsenacademy.org & mailys@sergebetsenacademy.org / +34 605 11 20 75
CD69: michelcommeinhes@orange.fr & rugby-69@orange.fr / laure.follinarbelet@lfacoach.com /+33 672 28 37 67

 

 

Event: A spectacular charity dinner on the famous revolving floor 34 of BT Tower in London on 28th March!

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On Thursday 28th March, we celebrated the Serge Betsen Academy 20th anniversary at the iconic BT Tower in London. We would like to thank our amazing guests for joining our fundraising celebrations. 

 

 
We are delighted to share with you that this event raised a staggering total of £40,260, and we are so truly grateful for the fantastic efforts of our guests on helping us to raise this amount.

 

 
All the money we raised will go directly to the Serge Betsen Academy (SBA) to continue welcoming underprivileged children in their general community centres to help the relief of poverty, sickness and distress as well as the advancement of education and the development of rugby in Cameroon and Mali.
 

 

We would like to thank Shirley Pinder for organizing this perfect event, the legends Mark Foster, Leon Lloyd, Joe Worsley, Victor Ubogu and Jeremy Chardy for their availability, Peter Scrivener for being an amazing MC, our sponsor Benoit Verbrugghe for his generosity, and all our guests for their support of the Serge Betsen Academy 20th Anniversary fundraising celebrations at the BT Tower.
 

 

More than ever this 20th anniversary shows us that the recipe of team sport, education and healthcare is the magic formula to have a real impact on the life of our children. We are already making real progress:
  • Over the last 20 years, the Serge Betsen Academy has created five centres in Cameroon and one in Mali and 6 infirmaries
  • Supported 9000 underprivileged children, distributed 14650 meals
  • Made 1080 medical consultations (in 2023) in our infirmaries,
  • Organised 4 inter-centre tournaments and 3 inter-school tournaments
  • Built 3 water towers, 5 water wells, installed 16 solar panels,…
 

 

The next 20 years, we want our centres to be more autonomous and we want to help and support our children on the long run to achieve their professional dream.
 

 

For now thank you once again for your support.

 

 
 
 

Event: Legends’ Dinner, September 11, 2023, Toulouse

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Serge Betsen and the entire team of the Serge Betsen Academy association are organising “a Legends Dinner” on Monday, 11 September 2023 from 7 p.m., at the Brennan’s Snug Bar in Seilh (31).

This event will be an opportunity to celebrate the values of rugby, the association’s 20th anniversary and to discuss the Rugby World Cup, with passion, with rugby legends.

Surprise guests from the world of rugby including Yannick Jauzion, Trevor Brennan, Patrick Tabacco and Omar Hasan will be joining Serge Betsen for this occasion,. We will have various speakers during the dinner and also a quiz, an introduction to our association, a Q&A and auctions.

The profits from the evening will be entirely donated to the Serge Betsen Academy (SBA) association.

We look forward to spending this evening with Toulouse-based businesses and local rugby fans who support our mission and contribute to the well-being of the SBA children and families.

The contribution for this dinner is 120 Euros / person (i.e. 40.8 or 48 Euros after taxes). You can also sponsor the event as a company and benefit from invitations and various rewards. You will find all our partnership proposals on this document (click here).

The money collected during the evening shall be used to finance the studies of our SBA students, to purchase school supplies or for the creation of a poultry farm for our women of the SBA Coop, our cooperative.

 

To register for the event and buy your tickets, please send an email to sylvie@sergebetsenacademy.org or mailys@sergebetsenacademy.org.

 

Translation by Katy Birge-Wilson