NEWS FLASH!!!!!!!!!
HAVE DONE IT!!!!!!! Completed my trek today - at times it was extremely tough but an amazing experience - will post pictures when am able!
Thank you all for your incredible support.
Having reached my fourth target, I have raised it again so am now aiming for at least £7,000. Once again - thank you all for your astounding generosity - your support means a huge amount to me - and makes me even more determined that I am going to achieve this!
So its not long now until I get to China - the training is all but done and I am as ready as I can be to tackle the hardest physical challenge I have ever undertaken - 5 days of trekking on the Great Wall of China, up and down thousands of steps, steep slopes and crumbling paths - all in temperatures of up to 35C and high humidity.
The reason I am doing this is to raise as much money as I can for Breakthrough Breast Cancer. They work, through campaigning, research and education to seek to eradicate breast cancer. The facts are that every year 46,000 women and 300 men contract breast cancer in the UK and 1,000 women die of it evry month. The work that Breakthrough Breast Cancer does is therefore vital in the fight against breast cancer.
Your money will help fund this work. Here are a few of the ways you’ll be helping women with breast cancer:
£5 buys 100 microscope slides needed to look at cells in great detail under a microscope– enabling scientists to better understand breast cancer and develop new treatments.
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£10 buys storage containers for the blood samples used in the ‘Breakthrough Generations Study’ so that they can be kept safely for 40 years or more. These samples will help scientists discover the causes of breast cancer.
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£125 buys a pipette for measuring liquid ingredients, meaning scientists can conduct each experiment into breast cancer and its treatment with great precision.
I am therefore asking you to dig as deep as you can for this great cause.
A huge thank you to the following who have donated generously offline:
Dorothy Jamal, Pat Pal, Chris & John Inett, Jasy Narwal, Andrew Winnicki, Jackie Golding, Brent Hyatt, Dot & Will Newman, Maggie Johnston, Ronald and his team, Rosemary Haywood, Stephen Taylor, Gavin Kirkpatrick, Mick Byrne, Johannah Cutts, Arlene Laming, Jeremy Carter-Manning, Pippa McAtasney, Dave Davies, George Lane, Andy Saint, Victor Temple, Barry Finer, William Baron, Doreen Jolly, Hazel Savory, Dave Ainscough, Phil Howarth, John MacDoonald, Jim Sudworth, Paula Lyttle, Allan King, Gllenn Chesterton, Richard, Matthew, Phil Goodley, Robert, Aaron Ali, Bruce Michael, Cindy Ali, Richard Ali, Ashok Patel, Sandra Kangee, Fred Gofton, Nina Weston, Heather, Andrew Dobney, Alan Westwood, Pat Lunney, Paul Braine, Jane Scholefield, Roger Coe-Salazar, S Patel, Mark Stebbing, Ron Cooper, Derek Leslie, Fred Groves, Robin Carr, Rob Milburn, Bill Sinclair, Graham Paisley, Shaun Keep, Zoe Bryans, Clive Driscloll, Alan Goodley, R McGuinness, Rick Murphy, Stuart Reeves, Brian Willis, Martin Evans, Lyn Hayhow, Rob Davis, Harry, James Kennedy, Chris Christofis, Neil Coppiter, Kieran Ali, Paul Kavanagh, Andy Day, Stan Wilson, Tom Bridges, Claude Allen, Moira NcGloin, Keith Sherwood, Keton Makuana, Sue De Silva, Gareth Williams, clients at Energie Gym Wembley, Andy Manning, Cathy Atkins, Mark Dennis, Jean, Sam Miller, Ernest & Dorothy Green, Paul Barron, Mike & Siobhan Webb, , Jonathan Fowler, Steve Barendt, John Davis, Maggs,Molly Coffin, Jasmine Saleem, Robert Arulappu, Jill Bailey,Chris, Andy Day, Lorraine Lan,Tony Bishop, Heather, Bill Flaherty, Dave Jux, Niall O'Connor,John Sandlin, Tony & Jenny Kilbane, Brian Jux, Abdul Dawodu, Kev Brennan, Mike Elliott, Tony Attard, Chab, Mick Geaghan, Colin Rose, Brian Southworth, Howard Groves,Jonathan Jamal,Steve Lawrence, Andy Walker, Jim Reilly, Jenny Toghill, Gary Gilbert, Becky Gillmore, Phil Rickells, Jason Grey, Lyndon Smith, Andy Kelly, Andy Yoats, Jamie Holberton.
A special thank you to the City fans who celebrated Scholesy's winner by throwing £2.41 at me!!! (and another 20p at the Derby game on 10 Nov!)
