August has proven to be a very influential month in terms of our fund-raising for the Institute of Cancer Research UK. In this one month alone, we raised over £1,300 for the charity, for the main due to our very successful fund-raising day at Fairford Cricket Club on Sunday 29th August 2010 – more info [...]
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Our Summer Raffle fundraising draw takes place this coming Sunday 29th August 2010 at Fairford Cricket Club. We have so far raised over £500.00 from ticket sales for the draw. Thank you to everyone for your support to date. A limited amount of tickets are still available, and will also be on sale on the day. In [...] July has been a busy month, both in terms of our ongoing training and fundraising. We have recently completed our second hiking weekend, this time covering well over 10 miles in approx 6 hours. Our next planned training event is in Snowdon during September so we are really now starting to ramp up our training. In addition, [...] Over the past weekend, I continued my training for our Great Wall Hike challenge by spending 2 days in Snowdonia, climbing the summit on Saturday with my wife Nicola, and close friends Hannah Harrison and Dom Richards. We managed to get up and down the mountain in approx 4 and a half hours, which is a [...] On Saturday 5th June 2010, we kicked off our training preperations with a 9 mile hike in the Cotswolds. We both put our equipment, boots, and legs to the test and completed the walk in approx 4 hours. Happily, we completed this with out too many issues, other than the odd blister! We have now [...] Recently completed 10 miles in my “new best friends”, (yes the boots!!) and no blisters which is great news! Its great to see the word of our challenge is spreading, and we have just hit the 170 mark on our fan page on face book. Both myself and Steve are busy securing prizes for some of our future planned [...] With less than a year to go until our challenge, our training & preperation is already well under way. We have been busy in recent months creating as much awareness for our campaign as possible and discussing fundraising ideas. That all said, there is a planned trip for a weekend in Snowdonia in July to break [...]
Steve Chambers and Nathan Court welcome you to our blog, which is here to support our challenge in March 2011 to walk the Great Wall of China over 9 days, with the aim of raising £6,000 for the Institute of Cancer Research UK. We will update this blog regularly with news, updates and our ongoing [...] |
 "@dk398862 - no worries! :-)" "WILTY - Bob Mortimer....legend!" "@samaco50 @Tamarama100 @diamondx1982 @007Kev - thanks for ff - have a great weekend!"
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