Gray Collins is fundraising for Basics (Hampshire)

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Raising money for

Basics (Hampshire)

Charity Registration No. 1083110

Supporting Hampshire Ambulance Service with specialist out-of-hospital medical help during serious or major incidents. Members number 30 doctors and 1 nurse, all providing their time on a voluntary, unpaid basis. All equipment and training is paid for by local fundraising. BASICS Hampshire annually receives over 700 requests for assistance."

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Gray Collins

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17/09/2014

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Raised: 127%

Target: £1,000.00
Raised so far: £1,266.50

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My story

The tweetathon took place on Monday the 12th and Tuesday the 13th of October. I tweeted 2064 times over 48 hours. You can find out the whole story of my incredible experience here on my blog: http://diaryofaledger.blogspot.com/2009/10/tweetathon-2009-best-2-days-ever.html .

Thank you to all who have donated.

Those of you that know me will be well aware that I twitter. Whilst on a train to Southsea last week I came up with a slightly unusual fund raising idea for BASICS that involves using twitter.

BASICS are a small group of medical professionals that in their own time provide advanced medical assistance outside of a hospital. They saved a mates life after a major road traffic accident last year. You can read more about them here: http://www.basicshampshire.org.uk/

What I’m going to attempt is 48 hours of sponsored tweeting. I’m calling it a Tweetathon. I will commit to 12 hours but if I raise over £50 I’ll do 24 hours, £100 36 hours and for £150 I will do 48 hours without sleep. I will commit to at least one tweet every 10 minutes during that period. To be honest though there will probably be a lot more than that.

You will be able to follow my progress on twitter throughout the day as I will unprotect my twitter account for the 48 hour period. My user name is diaryofaledger which you’ll be able to access at https://twitter.com/diaryofaledger.

If twitter goes down during that period (it does occasionally) I will switch to facebook where I have a ‘fan’ page for my actual blog that everyone has access too. You can find that at here: http://www.facebook.com/diaryofaledger.

If I have an internet failure at home I can switch to my mobile phone for twitter.

I’m going to attempt this from midnight Sunday 11th October until midnight 13th October as long as the money rolls in.

BASICS is a really worth while cause and I hope that you enjoy making me stay up for two days without a break!

If I raise over £1000 I will do something crazy! Once the total goes past £150 I'll amend my target and let you know what that's gonna be.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

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So please dig deep and donate now.

	took a while but donated in the end!! Cheers Octaneflyer! (Mark) Donation by Mark Lovely 16/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Donation by Monique St John 16/10/09	£6.50
	wow what a Challenge you set yourself! Well Done! Many thanks for bringing to my attention a charity that I have not heard of before !! xXx Donation by Louise Foley 15/10/09	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid
	Well done Gray!! - Sorry its a tad overdue!! =) Donation by Louise Cook 14/10/09	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid
	Life's tweet! Good luck to you! Donation by Stelios Jackson 14/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Well done mate xx Donation by Chris Giles 14/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Well done!!! You did it! Donation by Lara Poole 14/10/09	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid
	Sleep well and well done... ;-D Donation by Nonicam 13/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Have made a small donation as Im a clinical team leader paramedic & often work along side of basics staff at incidents Ill pass on the re tweet Donation by whitestar_uk 13/10/09
	We're totally skint so sorry it's only a fiver, but you deserve something not mater how small! Well done. Donation by VentnorBlog 13/10/09	£5.00
	As promised. Well done mate, that's at least 5000 plasters! Donation by Vineyard 13/10/09	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid
	Well done mate. Donation by Martin Higgins 13/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Really well done Gray. Hope you have an epic sweet dreamed sleep after your epic effort. x Donation by Rosy James 13/10/09	£20.00
	Almost there! Donation by George Poles 13/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	well done keep up the good work Donation by Jill Scoular 13/10/09	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid
	Well done you for doing something positive with your time wasting ;) Donation by Murray Gold 13/10/09	£30.00
	Great work and people are posting rude pictures, so bonus! Donation by @David1969 13/10/09	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid
	Outstanding tweeting! Enjoy your sleep when the hour arrives. Donation by @jsoul_uk 13/10/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Well done. And you virtually met a whole bunch of good peeps too!! Donation by twistedmoals 13/10/09	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid
	Good work, Gray! All the best for the final 3 hours. I want my money back if you don't make it :) Donation by David Lesault 13/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Well done Donation by Jason Ferguson 13/10/09	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid
	Well done and to @twosoups for rounding us all up. Donation by shelagh sheldrick 13/10/09	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid
	Well done - excellent cause - hope you hit your target Donation by nikkib 13/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Great idea well done Donation by Biddy Amis 13/10/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Bingo! Well done Donation by @mkayes 13/10/09	£45.00 + £12.69 Gift Aid
	Keep on tweeting! :D Donation by @InsomniacMummy 13/10/09	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid
	Hi Gray - good luck and well done so far mate. I know a lot of BASICS doctors and they are amazing people - a great cause. Donation by Kevan Laybourn 13/10/09	£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid
	Congratulations on your 48-hour tweetathon, hope it gets wide recognition but you've already done AMAZING! Donation by Scott Wood (Scottishwoody) 13/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Sunday, 16 August 2009 Premier League Tottenham 2 - 1 Liverpool Donation by Mark Rowland 13/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good luck, great cause x Donation by Sian Wearn 13/10/09	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid

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* Total raised online:	£1,266.50
Offline donations:	£0.00
Gift Aid plus supplement:	£310.26

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