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Brighton Marathon 2012 · 15 April 2012 ·

We believe in families, not orphanages. We’re helping Uganda reimagine care so that no child anywhere need ever experience an orphanage again. We help repurpose orphanages into services that people really need, keeping families together, reuniting families or finding new ‘forever families’.

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<p><strong><span style="color: #800080;">1 DOWN, 1 TO GO...</span></strong></p> <p><span style="color: #008080;"><span style="mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">241 MARATHONS THIS YEAR. </strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JUST ASKING FOR A FIVER...NO MORE</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Thanks to everyone for supporting me over the years, your money really is helping to keep kids in Uganda safe and well. To keep up to date and see all the great things being achieved by Lucy and team at Child's i foundation, check out their website </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #31859c; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #31859C; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-themeshade: 191;"><a href="http://www.childsifoundation.org/"><span style="color: #31859c; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #31859C; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-themeshade: 191;">http://www.childsifoundation.org</span></a></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> or go to YouTube </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #31859c; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #31859C; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-themeshade: 191;">http://www.youtube.com/user/childsifoundation</span></span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot;"> </span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">So let&rsquo;s get down to business, without runs, sales, jumps &amp; climbs, none of this would be possible. As usual I&rsquo;m taking part in a number of organised runs to help.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-size: small;">15</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">April - Brighton Marathon 2012 - 3:31!&nbsp;</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #31859c; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #31859C; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="font-size: small;">22 April - London Marathon 2012</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I&rsquo;m only asking for a </span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31859c; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #31859C; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-themeshade: 191;">FIVER</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> this year. If you can, please do.</span></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: small;">JustGiving sends your donation straight to Child's i Foundation and automatically reclaims Gift Aid if you're a UK taxpayer, so your donation is worth even more.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thanks.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: small;">Duncan</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #31859c; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #31859C; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #31859c; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #31859C; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themeshade: 191;">P.S If you want a day out and fancy coming along to either marathon to cheer everyone on, let me know. There&rsquo;s quite a gang going to both runs already, few drinks!</span></p>

Donation summary

Total
£615.00
+ £148.75 Gift Aid
Online
£615.00
Offline
£0.00

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