A little support from a little girl... can go a long way with your help!

Fundraising events for good causes...

Many many thanks goes to all those who helped us raise over £800 last year, when my friend Katja & I did a 10,000ft tandem skydive in aid of 'Make A Wish' charity. It was a fantastic achievement for us both, especially since Katja previously had a fear of heights!

This year our fundraising efforts are really requiring more long term effort!! The main event is the Great North Run, UK. It is a half marathon, and so is taking masses of effort with regards to training.
I am running this to raise money for the understated charity of the RNIB, raising money to help those who have or are about to lose the gift of sight. This event is happening on the 19th September. All sponsorship is greatly recieved by the charity. You can send your sponsor money directly to them via Just Giving here

Also we are both running the 10k Race for Life in Temple Newsam. This raises money for Cancer Research. If you'd like to support this charity by sponsoring us, then do ask, as we have no designated way of giving sponsorship as yet.

 

      

  

As a lot of you know my 9 year old daughter Thea grew up in Cockermouth until just over a year ago. We moved to back to Yorkshire, but never fully took our hearts away from such a wonderful place. Even 'one time visitors' love the beautiful energy of the place so much they tend to return time & time again.

On a personal level, I try to put it into perspective by thinking about the Tsunami that not only took away homes & services, but many thousands of lives. If you compare this disaster to others such as 9/11 there may be no comparison with regards to lives lost, but the devastation is still there. Elderly people in their bungalows & ground floor flats may well have just lost EVERYTHING, apart from their lives thankfully. A community filled with small independent businesses, their lives have been put into making their businesses work & becoming friends with their customers, children living the trauma of seeing their familiar surroundings ruined, families of the emergency services not knowing if their loved ones will be ok. (Three cheers for those guys & gals - you all did an amazing job!)

I'll not dramatise it any further, as these are true feelings that a compact & loving community have all gone through for real... and other feelings too, that maybe I wouldn't understand whilst watching it happen from the distance.

Here are Thea's words about how she feels seeing the images of what has happened to what she still thinks of as home & how she feels seeing familiar faces struggling on the TV, and also what she'd like to do to help...

(This is her way of coping with a distant trauma ~ thank you for your support for all involved)

"When I heard about the flood I thought about the elderly people that must be going through a hard time. Lifted out of their houses into helicopters, having to stay in damp, cold houses and much more! And all the younger children that look forward to seeing the Christmas lights each year which probably won’t happen till later this year.

So I thought to help them by raising some money to help pay for the damage that has happened to my home town a lovely place to be!!! I hope everyone is alright, safe and well kept, I saw the photos of where people are sleeping!! And all the school children that are at home with hardly anything to do. And the people who are trying there hardest to provide food for the Mountain Rescue team, The Army and any one that helped.

For all the people that are in Cumbria, I hope you are all ok!!

To raise money I am going to run 5km... I don't think I've ever run that far before, but it's worth it!

Thank you!!
Thea x"

 Please add a comment for Thea to keep her 'geed up'!!! Many thanks!
Apologies for the delay in getting started with this. Winter brought weeks of snow & ice, cold weather etc... Not a good start to training for a little girl! We decided to postpone it, but training is on it's way now!! More details will follow again very soon.