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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">You have looked this far, so you might as well go the distance and pledge!!!</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><em><span style="color: navy; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></em></span></span></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">On the 21st of September, a group of over 100 riders will set off from Calais on the annual O2e cycling extravaganza. Taking as flat a route as possible over ca. 400kms through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, we aim to arrive in Cologne on the 23rd. </span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><em><span style="color: navy; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></em></span></span></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In addition to the 4 children’s hospices we are supporting this year, (Shooting Star Chase in SE England; Martin House in Yorkshire, East Anglia Children's Hospices, Chestnut Tree House in Sussex), we will also be pledging funds to "Get Kids Going", (an exciting group that enables disabled children to take part in sports), Henshaws Society for the Blind and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><em><span style="color: navy; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></em></span></span></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">As always, we pay all our own expenses, so every penny given goes to helping seriously and terminally ill children. </span></em><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">O2E was formed by a group of like minded individuals over 5 years ago and has raised over £1Million so far and continues to be run purely by volunteers. Please tell as many people about us as you can.</span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 140%; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy; line-height: 140%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">PLEASE DIG DEEP AND PLEDGE WHAT YOU CAN. THANKS.</span></em></p>
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