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Category Archives: fundraising
A huge thank you
I just wanted to say huge a heart felt thank you to everyone that has both sponsored and supported me. The encouragement has been fantastic, and i’ll be thinking of you all as i face the challenge that the morning … Continue reading
Posted in fundraising, motivation
Tagged donations, just giving, sponsorship, thank you
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Crossing the 1000 mile mark
Today is a pretty big day for me, for the first time ever i’ve clocked up over a thousand miles in a year, nearly three times more that i did in the whole of last year (and we still have … Continue reading
Posted in fundraising, motivation, planning, training
Tagged 1000 miles, david coxon, himilayan 100, Running Sites, training
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Fundraising gets a boost from Boots
We got some great news today from Lucinda’s work. Boots are going to match any donations we get for Macmillan up to £500. Macmillan Cancer Support one of the two charities than we are supporting and are also one Boots … Continue reading
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Tagged boots, david coxon, fundraising, himalayan 100, macmillan cancer support, run, Running Sites, sponsor
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Corporate sponsors needed
Now that the new look run blog is up and running, we have some exciting opportunities for corporate sponsorships. If you’d to help the fight against Gynaecological Cancers, support the Eve Appeal, and see you logo at the bottom of … Continue reading
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Now open for business
I hope that you are enjoying the new look running pages. I’ve finally got around to drawing together the hi-lights of the dailymile, the just giving site, and fetch blog, and rewrote some of the old posts and notes i’ve … Continue reading
Posted in fundraising, writing
Tagged 100 mile stage run, blog, himalayan 100, run, Running Sites, training, writing
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What’s it all for?
I guess that some of you may be wondering why on Earth, I would want to travel 1/2 way around the world to spend 5 days slogging my way up some of the toughest hills on the planet. The answer … Continue reading
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Tagged eve appeal, himalayan 100, macmillan, multi stage race, run, Running Sites, sponsored
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Welcoming our first corporate sponsor
I went down to the very impressive, Ouseburn offices of The Go Digital Marketing, to say a huge thank you to Aston Bowles and his team, for kindly donating £150 yesterday and becoming our first corporate sponsor. The Go, are an up … Continue reading
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Tagged himilayan 100, sponsors, sponsorship, the eve appeal, thego
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Andy starts things moving
Andrew McBride’s kind donation on just giving this morning has officially kicked off my fundraising effort. It also goes to show the power of social networking… I went to school with Andy a good 25 years ago and haven’t seen … Continue reading
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Just giving
I finally got around to contacting the Eve appeal people at the and getting their permission to raise funds on their behalf. I’ve also set up an account on justgiving.com, so that I can start to collect some money from potential sponsors.
Posted in fundraising, planning
Tagged donation, give, giving, just giving, online, sponsor, sponsorship, the eve appeal, website
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