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2005 CHARITY DONATIONS PAGE
*************SMALL CHANGE FOR SMALL CHANGE************
Charity begins at home as do accidents and home is where the heart is (unless you're Dean Martin) in which case it's San Francisco.
Anyway....
2005 sees the GREAT NORTH RUN
Date: 18th September 2005
Venue: The Great North
In aid of: Epilepsy Action charity
REG No: 234343
Website: http://www.epilepsy.org.uk
Target: I have to raise a minimum of £250 and it has been a while since my last half-marathon in High Wycombe. Training consists of running in the rain in jeans and a hooded top. So far I have only been stopped as suspicious by the police once and was released on bail for £1,000,000. I had to rob a bank to pay bail, but so far I'm fairly safe, unlike their safe.
Sorry, I digress.
Please email me if you would like to donate anything and please sign the guestbook and tell me where the spelling on this site are or other words of encouragement / endearment or just plain abuse.
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Here are some links that I hope you can bookmark. They are sites which the sponsors will pay to charity for every mouse click.
I have chosen these because they are genuine / supported by large corporations and/or have been around a long time.
Also please take a look at this site: www.goodgifts.org. I think there are some nice ideas you can buy for others if you are stuck for original gift ideas.
1) www.solarsite.net - This site donates to pay for solar energy converters in the world. We all need clean energy sources and this is a small way forward. Many UK councils will give you a grant to install a solar cell on your roof. Avoid those price rises, by getting it for free from the sun.
2) www.thehungersite.com / www.thebreastcancersite.com / www.thechildhealthsite.com / www.theliteracysite.com / therainforestsite.com / www.theanimalrescuesite.com - These are all under the same organisation and is probably the oldest free charity site. They have just added the literacy site.
3) http://www.easyjet.com/en/News/20041224_01.html - Easyjet periodically donate to a selected charity. This year it is the Epilepsy Action. In true ministerial accountability style I should say I have a selfish interest in this charity since my sister was diagnosed recently.
They donate 25p per click to the charity.
4) www.FreeDonation.com - This is an American site and does focus some of it's donations on USA, however to be quite honest it's homelessness problem is quite bad so I think someone should try to stem the problem, which is why it is included here. There are a number of sites under this one organisation (including AIDS, Cancer / Environment / Hunger / Children / Homelessness / Arts / Education.
I hope you can take some or all of these (there are loads more on the net as well) and click once a day. Together we can all be God of the Small Things and make a small contribution until such times as we all become famous and many people care about what we think.
MEANWHILE HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED ON THE SAME SPOT LAST YEAR
ALL FINISHED!!!!!
I have now climbed 4 mountains in under 48 hours on behalf of the Neuro-Fibromatosis Association: (Registered Charity No. 1078790)
Neuro-Fibromatosis is a genetic disorder of nerve tissue affecting 1 in 2,500 people worldwide and causes deformities of the face and head as well as other cell replication abnormalities. This is a very rare disorder in the extreme and will help the genetic causes can be discovered and prevented in time.
The total climbing time was 16 hours and 20 minutes.
The weather Ireland was nice and hot and sunny which turned into a sudden downpour about 5 minutes after I got back to my seat on the coach - JOY!!! It was so much fun watching other people get wet.
The weather in Wales was the worst of all: I climbed the mountain at night (10.30pm) and it was wet and dark and extremely misty and windy and I spent most of the time alone as I just wanted to get up and down as quick as possible.
The Lake District was much better - hot sunny, a bit windy and a day time climb - This I needed as I thought I had reached the top about 5 times but the mountain just keeps going up then down a bit, then up a bit more, then down a lot, then up a bit and up a bit more and then up a lot. The last 30 minutes of the climb were spent scrambling over boulders with no defined path either. And that was why I liked climbing it in the day.
Ben Nevis was far too easy for a big mountain, but it made up for it by all the snow on the top and the fact that it was the last one. Surprisingly the weather was perfect and I was expecting it to be worst than Wales. One up for Scotland and one in the eye for Snowden.
Anyway achieved the objective - Get to the top of all 4. Achieved the secondary mission - climb in less than 48 hours and climbing time of less than 24 hours.
Thanks to everyone who sponsored me my fair means or foul - yes I mean you Mr. Over with your 0.1pence per metre. Please look at the charity site if you haven't already to see exactly where the money is going.
Here are the stats:
Slieve Donard, N. Ireland - 852m (2,796ft) 2h35mins
Y Wyddfa (or Snowdon if you will) - 1,085m (3,560ft) 3h35mins
Scafell Pike - 978m (3,209ft) 4h45mins
Ben Nevis - 1,344m (4,408ft) 5h35mins
TOTAL - 4,259m (13,973ft) 16h20mins
AMOUNT RAISED: £521
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