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

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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

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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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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

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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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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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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.

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