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Moor2Moor Challenge

Chris Eastman is raising money for Hop Skip and Jump South West
“Chris Eastman's fundraising”

on 20 January 2011

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Hop Skip and Jump is a play and support centre for children with special needs. Based in Bristol, it serves the whole of the south west. The centre has an indoor play area with light and dark sensory rooms, an art room and soft play areas. Outside there is a two-acre play area with slides, climbing frames, toys, picnic area and a sensory garden. The centre offers support for parents and carers with a complementary therapy clinic and a quiet area where they can relax and chat to other families. Hop Skip and Jump is entirely self supporting, relying on the generous support of individuals, trusts and companies to pay for qualified staff and support costs.

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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Thank you for taking the time to visit&nbsp;our Moor2Moor Challenge sponsorship page. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On the first weekend in July 2011, over 50 participants from Deloitte and representatives&nbsp;from the&nbsp;South West Corporate Finance community will take part in&nbsp;this gruelling challenge to raise money for Hop Skip and Jump - a Bristol based charity that provides support to children and families with any type of special need.&nbsp; </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Furthermore, your donation will also help support other local charities as Deloitte has agreed to match your funding to be shared with their three selected office charities. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Jessie May Trust&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.jessiemaytrust.org.uk/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">http://www.jessiemaytrust.org.uk/</span></span></a></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Brunel Care&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.brunelcare.org.uk/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">http://www.brunelcare.org.uk/</span></span></a></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bristol Soup Run&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.bristolsoupruntrust.org.uk/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">http://www.bristolsoupruntrust.org.uk/</span></span></a></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">About the challenge&nbsp; </span></strong></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The challenge involves 2 full days of strenuous activity - a 60 mile cycle&nbsp;across Dartmoor followed by a c.30 mile walk across Exmoor ending up in Lynmouth. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">About Hop Skip and Jump</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">The charity was established in February 2003 to provide a unique combination of specialist support, supervised play and day care for children and young people with any special need.&nbsp; The centre is based in Bristol and is predominantly visited by families and groups from Bath &amp; North East Somerset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Bristol and South Gloucestershire.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The centre also receives visits from people living much further afield including areas such as Devon and Cornwall. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hundreds of children benefit from the services offered and the centre receives, on average, 10,400 visits per annum.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Hop Skip &amp; Jump provides its services for free and therefore relies on donations to raise the &pound;200,000 needed each year to keep the play centre running.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Your generous donation will make an enormous difference to a large number of people.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For more info see: <strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://www.hopskipandjump.org.uk/default.htm">http://www.hopskipandjump.org.uk/default.htm</a></span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The charity is particularly personal to Chris Eastman, an Assistant Director in Deloitte's Corporate Finance team, who frequently uses the facilities for his son Thomas who has a rare medical condition.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">JustGiving</span></strong></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;</span></strong></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving &ndash; they&rsquo;ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they&rsquo;ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it&rsquo;s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So please dig deep and donate now.</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Donation summary

Total
£9,050.00
+ £1,650.00 Gift Aid
Online
£7,330.00
Offline
£1,720.00

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