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Karen Jeff is raising money for Alzheimer's Society
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Alzheimer's Society - Trek Kilimanjaro · 13 October 2011 ·

At Alzheimer’s Society we’re working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives. We do this by giving help to those living with dementia today, and providing hope for the future by campaigning to make dementia the priority it should be and funding groundbreaking research.

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<p><span style="color: #333399;">******************************KILI = DONE&nbsp;********************</span></p> <p><span style="color: #333399;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I made it to the summit!! Please check out the photos!</span></span></p> </span></p> <p><span style="color: #333399;">******************************KILI = DONE&nbsp;********************</span></p> <p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Thanks to all the people who have donated so far to my Kilimanjaro climb and all the support and kind words that have been offered over the past few months.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial;">I chose to support the Alzheimer&rsquo;s Society when I heard the stat of 700,000 people in the UK suffer with Dementia, this equals </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial;">1 in 3 people over the age of 65! </span></span></strong></p> <p> <p> <p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial;">The </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial;">Alzheimer's Society provides care and support for patients and their families. This gives people a lifeline who Alzheimer&rsquo;s effects - like the ability to run caf&eacute;&rsquo;s for carer&rsquo;s &ndash; which gives them a chance to relax or for vital research to be undertaken into the cause of dementia ( i.e. to conduct clinical trials). </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></span></strong></p> </p> </p> </p> </p> <p><span style="color: #333399;"> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial;">Please</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial;"> Please donate anything you can to this worthy cause.</span></span></span></p> </span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;">&nbsp;<span style="color: #000000;">*****************FUNDRAISING EVENT 29th September*************</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"> <p>ROYAL LONDON - 3 TOWER RUN - 1300 steps!</p> <p>So apparantly the training for Kilimanjaro has paid off as I completed the 3 tower run in <strong>19 minutes 23 seconds</strong>!</p> <p>The raffle took place on Friday and the time picked out the hat was 30mins and 35seconds which belonged to Paul Moughton of Skanska - who was there on the day watching me run the towers!</p> <p>Congrats Paul!</p> <p>Karen x</p> </span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">*****************FUNDRAISING EVENT 29th September*************</span></p> <p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </p>

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£2,503.00
+ £284.75 Gift Aid
Online
£1,234.00
Offline
£1,269.00

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