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Posted by SteveC on October 17, 2011, at 1:54 pm | Category: News | Comments are closed We are pleased to announce that we have successfully completed our Great Wall of China Trek, and returned to the UK on Sunday 16th October 2011.
The challenge was gruelling at times, and the scenery breathtaking. However, all of the training we had done clearly paid off as both of us managed the challenge with out too many issues, and this made for an extremely enjoyable, fulfulling and unforgettable experience.
Full details on our adventure in China is available here.
In the meantime, thank you to everyone for all of the support and kind donations to date.
Posted by SteveC on September 28, 2011, at 5:10 pm | Category: Fundraising, News, Preparation, Sponsorship Update | Comments are closedWell….only a few more days to go – 9 in fact – before we jet off to China to complete our challenge! 
Our last event - the Charity Dog Race Night #2 on 23rd September – raised £180.00 towards our target, and we have now more or less completed all of the training we can considering we are now so close to the departure date!
The company which we arranged our challenge with has published a FaceBook page where people who are in the same challenge group as us are sharing their thoughts, experiences and nerves leading up to the event. You can see this page at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=789428572#!/event.php?eid=118991201483730
We are planning on using our Twitter and FaceBook feeds to the right of the page to keep everyone updated on our challenge as we go – so be sure to keep an eye on the blog for updates on our progress.
In the meantime, please help us with one final push to hit our £6k fundraising target by spreading the word to all of your family, friends and work colleagues. We are currently at just over £4,700 – and the link to our Just Giving site is on the left.
Finally, we would like to thank everyone for all of the fantastic support we have received to date, and we look forward to keeping you updated on our progress whilst in China!
Posted by SteveC on September 5, 2011, at 12:18 pm | Category: Fundraising, News, Raffles & Charity Days | Comments are closed Following the success of our charity night at Swindon Dog Track in September 2010, we are pleased to announce that we will be running a second event on the evening of Friday 23rd September 2011.
This will again take place at Swindon dog track, and the ticket price will include entry and a race card for the evening. All ticket sales proceeds will contribute to our cause.
Tickets are limited, and will be on a first come first served basis. If you are interested in attending please contact us for full details.
Posted by SteveC on August 23, 2011, at 9:01 am | Category: News, Preparation, Training | Comments are closed Well, its getting close!
So far, we have raised over £4,300 for the Institute of Cancer Research UK – please help us in hitting our target by using the Just Giving link on the left to make a donation online.
We are now only approx. 6 weeks away from jetting off to China for our trek! The innoculations are being arranged, our visa’s have been applied for and we have our flight details! All getting very real!
We have one last charity event planned on 23rd September for a night out at Swindon dog track with all ticket sales contributing to our target, and one final major training weekend in Snowdon on 17th/18th September (along with our individual efforts) for last minute preperations.
More details will be published soon on the upcoming Dog Track night in September.
Posted by SteveC on July 25, 2011, at 1:32 pm | Category: News, Preparation, Training, Uncategorized | Comments are closed Our training and preperation continued for our Great Wall Hike, with a recent trip to Snowdon in North Wales.
This was an excellent opportunity for us to not only expose ourselves to some relatively similar terrain, but also to gauge of overall fitness levels as well as making sure our kit was up to the job. We had planned to climb the mountain twice during the weekend, however due to a combination of blisters and a strained ankle we were not able to carry out the second climb.
None the less, it was an extremely worth while weekend, and another is scheduled for mid September where we fully intend on climbing Snowdon twice.
A few more pictures from the weekend is available here.
Posted by SteveC on May 30, 2011, at 1:55 pm | Category: Fundraising, News, Raffles & Charity Days, Sponsorship Update | Comments are closed
On Sunday 29th May 2011, we hosted our Charity golf day at Caversham Heath Golf club on the outskirts of Reading, Berkshire. 44 Players were in attendance supporting the event, consisting of 33 club members and 11 guests.
Thanks to the support of all who attended, we were able to raise £355.00 for the Institute of Cancer Research UK, adding to our overall cause which now stands at over £3,500!
To contine reading full details from the day, click here.
Posted by SteveC on April 7, 2011, at 1:46 pm | Category: Fundraising, News, Raffles & Charity Days, Sponsorship Update | Comments are closed We are now pleased to confirm all the details for our Charity Golf day on Sunday 29th May 2010. The event will be held at Caversham Heath Golf Club on the outskirts of Reading, a 7,000 + yard championship length course!
The format will be teams of 4 playing in a Texas Scramble style team event. Men will play from the blue tees, and women from the yellow. 10% combined handicap allowance. The event is open to both club members and guests.
Tee times will start from 8am and run right through the day, with the last tee time going out at approx 2pm. A presentation for the winning teams will be made at approx 6.30pm. There will be prizes for teams coming 1st and 2nd. We will also be running a nearest to the pin competition on the 8th hole.
We have a limited number of guest team slots available. Entry is £30.00 per player, (or £110.00 per team of 4) and this will include the round of golf, competition entry and a one-course meal upon completion of your round.
Should you wish to reserve your place, please contact us as soon as possible. We will then provide you with full details, including tee time, club/course information and directions.
Thank you for your continued support. We do hope to see you on the day for what promises to be an excellent day’s play, supporting our cause raising money for the Institute of Cancer Research UK.
Posted by SteveC on March 21, 2011, at 4:18 pm | Category: News, Preparation, Training | Comments are closed We have been busy in the past few weeks making some changes to our website, and you will now see on the right hand side a new style Facebook application which we hope will deliver more useful information, and enable our supporters to interact with us more freely.
In addition, you will also see a new Twitter feed. This is currently being tested with a live account with a view to being used whilst we are in China, to keep our supporters up to speed with our trek. The plan is for us to post updates via Twitter during our challenge, which will then also populate this website and our Facebook page. In the meantime, feel free to follow us on Twitter @scchambers or @nathancourt7
Finally, we are almost there with regards to our Charity Golf day in May. The finer details are being finalised with a view to an official announcement very soon.
In the meantime, our training is going well and we have now confirmed weekend dates all the way up to our challenge in October. There will also be a planned training weekend in Snowdon later in the year, and we will keep everyone posted on our progression.
Posted by SteveC on February 10, 2011, at 9:54 am | Category: News | Comments are closedWell, our hike is now only 7 months away!
Now (hopefully) the Winter deluge is behind us, we are starting to concentrate our efforts again, specifically around our ongoing training. Nathan and myself are getting together at the end of February for our first training session of 2011.
In other news, our charity golf day has been arranged for Sunday May 29th 2011 at Caversham Heath Golf club in Reading, Berkshire. More information on this – including any available places – will be published in due course.
Finally, we are over the £3k mark in our fund raising efforts so still plenty of work to do! Please let all of your friends and family know of our challenge – your support is much appreciated. More to follow soon.
Posted by SteveC on December 29, 2010, at 11:39 am | Category: News | Comments are closed Well, we are almost at the end of 2010, and it has been a busy year for us and our plans to hike the Great Wall of China in 2011.
We have hosted 2 main fund-raising events this year, are now over half way to our target of £6,000, and have had to change the date of our trek to October 2011 to make way for a new arrival in April 2011! A busy 12 months!
In January 2011, we will not only be re-starting our training regime to help us prepare for the event, but will also be announcing our fund-raising plans and events for 2011.
In the meantime, thank you to everyone for all of your support during 2010, and be sure to keep up to date with our plans for 2011.
Happy New Year!
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We are pleased to announce that we have successfully completed our Great Wall of China Trek, and returned to the UK on Sunday 16th October 2011.
