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The Original Tour 60th Year

Natascha Crump is raising money for Rainbow Trust Children's Charity
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on 1 March 2011

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Rainbow Trust Children's Charity supports families who have a child with a serious or life-threatening illness. Rainbow Trust pairs each family with an expert Family Support Worker who enables them to make the most of time together, giving them practical and emotional support.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Original Tour&nbsp;are celebrating 60 years</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">To celebrate they are supporting Rainbow Trust Children&rsquo;s Charity </span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nobody expects to outlive their child.</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 10pt;">Rainbow Trust Children's Charity provides emotional and practical support to families who have a child with a life threatening or terminal illness. Rainbow Trust's Family Support Workers join the family in their own home and are there to provide practical support.&nbsp;They are contactable 24 hours a day for families in crisis from diagnosis, through treatment and even after bereavement.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 10pt;">Rainbow relies almost entirely on voluntary donations and through the generosity of our supporters we are able to help around 1,000 families a year. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 10pt;">This year Rainbow Trust celebrates its 25th anniversary. Founded in 1986, we have now supported thousands of families who have a child with a life threatening or terminal illness. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">What Rainbow support means:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Support</span></strong><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> means <strong><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">being with </span></strong>a bereaved <strong><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">mother</span></strong> who is on her hands and knees <strong><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">threatening suicide</span></strong>, who by the time we leave the house, many hours later, is able to laugh at her self</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Support</span></strong><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> is making cakes with child propped in a high chair, because he was too weak to stand, and only had a week left to live</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Support</span></strong><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> is <strong><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">reassuring</span></strong> a <strong><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">sibling</span></strong> that cancer isn&rsquo;t a big bad monster coming to get him too</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Support</span></strong><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> is <strong><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">listening </span></strong>on the phone while a <strong><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">mother sobs</span></strong> her heart out, because the weather is cold, and her son has been buried without an overcoat</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><em><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">&ldquo;When your world is turned upside down by having a child who is ill, sometimes you just need someone you can rely on &ndash; I have always been able to rely on Rainbow&rsquo;s Support&rdquo;</span></em><em><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></em><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Mother</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">With your support we can make a real difference to this special charity &ndash; with your support we can help them care for more families facing the unimaginable idea that their child may die before them.</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">From diagnosis, through treatment and beyond &ndash; Rainbow Trust is there, every step of the way. </span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 10.5pt;">Help The Original Tour to support Rainbow Trust and their amazing work by making a donation today </span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Donation summary

Total
£40.00
+ £6.25 Gift Aid
Online
£40.00
Offline
£0.00

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