<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px;">Hi everyone,</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Thanks for taking the time to visit my STAR (Student Action for Refugees) London Marathon fundraising page!</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Heres a bit of information about why I chose to run the London Marathon for STAR:</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">I greatly enjoy running and I have run 3 Half Marathons in the past few years, as well as a few 10k races.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px;">I have been training hard for this race, with lots of demanding runs!&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px;">It's now just a FEW DAYS until the BIG DAY!! I ran 20 miles about 4 weeks ago, followed by a 24 miler the weekend after. I'm confident about the race... With a bit of luck and good energy on the day, I can complete it in around 4 hours.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial; line-height: 19px;"> </span></p> <p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">STAR - who they are, and what they do!</span></strong></p> <p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px;"><span class="ecx864440214-09032011" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="line-height: 22px; font-size: 12.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">STAR is&nbsp;the national network of student societies working to improve the lives of refugees in the UK by promoting positive images of refugees, volunteering for local refugee projects and campaigning.</span></span></span></p> <p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px;"><span class="ecx864440214-09032011" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="line-height: 22px; font-size: 12.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn about STAR:&nbsp;</span><a style="line-height: 22px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline; color: #0066cc; cursor: pointer;" href="http://star-network.org.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://star-network.org.uk/</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></p> <p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px;"><span class="ecx864440214-09032011" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="line-height: 22px; font-size: 12.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn about refugees:&nbsp;</span></span><a style="line-height: 19px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline; color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" href="http://www.star-network.org.uk/index.php/refugees/who_is_a_refugee" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.star-network.org.uk/index.php/refugees/who_is_a_refugee</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Why STAR is important to me</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">STAR the charity has a special place in my heart, which is why I'm running for them. I was involved with my university's branch of STAR throughout my three years of being a university student. I had opportunities to volunteer with refugees and asylum seekers and through this process I found out about their stories and why they were here in the </span><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">UK</span><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">. Volunteering was a great opportunity to look behind the headlines of some newspapers and befriend and support some some seriously vulnerable people in the </span><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">UK</span><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">What the money that you donate could go towards</span></strong></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px;">Here&rsquo;s a little guide to what your money can help provide:</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: #464648;">&pound;5</span></strong><span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: #464648;">&nbsp;</span></span><span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: #464648;">&hellip;spread positive information about refugees on campus by paying for photocopied leaflets</span></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: #464648;"><br /> <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">&pound;20</span></strong><span>&nbsp;</span><span>&hellip;teach refugees English by paying for dictionaries for an English class</span><br /> <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">&pound;60</span></strong><span>&nbsp;</span><span>&hellip;give a refugee student a place at</span><span>&nbsp;</span><span class="caps">STAR</span><span>&nbsp;</span><span>conference by funding their bursary</span><br /> <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">&pound;100</span></strong><span>&nbsp;</span><span>&hellip;train and support a</span><span>&nbsp;</span><span class="caps">STAR</span><span>&nbsp;</span><span>student to help refugees for a whole year</span><br /> <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">&pound;150</span></strong><span>&nbsp;</span><span>&hellip;give a voice to a refugee speaker by covering the costs of an event</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Please support this good cause generously, I promise I&rsquo;ll do my best to survive the race!!</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Many thanks,</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Patrick </span><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>