<p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Hi, and thank you&nbsp;for taking the time to visit our&nbsp;JustGiving page.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">We ar</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">e a group of&nbsp;7 friends (Alan Hislop, Donald Patterson, James Watson, Martin Gibbons, Rachael Davies, Sam Ewens, Will Bentall) </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">who will be completing the National Three Peaks Challenge, over the weekend of 25-26 June 2011, to raise money for Dumfries and Galloway Endowment Fund.&nbsp; </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Rachael's dad sadly passed away in December 2010 after a 2 year battle from stomach cancer.&nbsp; He received amazing care and support at the Dumfries Oncology Unit, which made the treatment more bearable.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">The funds raised will be designated for the Oncology department, and will be unrestricted so that they&nbsp;can be used for the&nbsp;purchase of equipment, patient comforts and amenities, research and training together with the provision of extra facilities and opportunities not available from government funding.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">The <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">National Three Peaks Challenge</span> is a mountain-endurance challenge in which we will attempt to climb the highest peaks of each of the island's three countries within 24 hours!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The mountains climbed, in order of elevation, are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Nevis"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Ben Nevis</span></a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Scotland</span></a> (4,409&nbsp;ft), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scafell_Pike"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Scafell Pike</span></a> in North-Western <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England"><span style="color: #0000ff;">England</span></a>(3,209&nbsp;ft), and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowdon">Snowdon</a> in North <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Wales</span></a> (3,560&nbsp;ft).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>In all the challenge involves some 26&nbsp;miles of ascent and descent, with total travel approaching 475&nbsp;miles.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">We are all currently training hard for the challenge and we have arranged a number of weekend trips to various mountains/hills to prepare for it as much as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The training will hopefully ease the muscle aches and pain, but nothing will be able to prepare us for the sleep deprivation!</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">We would really appreciate </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">your support in raising money for this amazing charity so that other cancer sufferers receive the best care and support possible. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">JustGiving will send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. 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