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<p><span style="color: #333300;"><span style="color: #333300;">Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page! A keen taste for curries, mexican, kebabs and every other food is sure to mean this will be a great challenge for me...<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: #333300;"><span style="color: #333300;">I will be part of a team of <strong><strong><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: #333300; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Y</span></em></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: #333300; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">e</span></strong><em><strong><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: #333300; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ldall Manor </span></strong></em></strong><em>e</em>x-residents, staff and supporters who will be attempting to complete the National Three Peaks Challenge on 3rd-4th September 2011. As we ascend Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike (in the dark!) and Snowdon consecutively, the team will need to walk/climb 26.5 miles and will be on their feet for over 12 hours. Our purpose in completing the event is to raise money for the Good Samaritan Bursary Fund - enough (£5,580) to enable one man to complete the Lodge Resettlement programme (let me know if you would like to know more about this).<a></a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333300;"><em><strong>Yeldall Manor</strong></em> is a Christian rehabilitation centre near Reading providing residential rehabilitation to men with drug or alcohol addictions, who come from a variety of backgrounds, offering them "a hope and a future".</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333300;">I have seen first hand the awesome life changing impact this place can have on lads who have suffered from addiction and how faith and relationships can transform their lives in a unique way, for their benefit and for society as a whole.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333300;">Any donations will be greatly appreciated and will contribute to a local charity that really is changing lives for the better. Many thanks all!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333300;">Tom<br /><br /><a href="http://www.yeldall.org.uk">www.yeldall.org.uk</a></span></span><span style="color: #333300;"><span style="color: #333300;"><br /><br />------------------------------------------------<br /></span></span><span style="color: #333300;"><span style="color: #333300;"><em><strong><span style="color: #333399;">The Good Samaritan Bursary Fund<br /></span></strong></em></span></span><span style="color: #333300;"><span style="color: #333300;"><br /></span><span style="color: #99ccff;"><span style="font-size: small; color: #a6c0ff; font-family: Bliss-Light;"><span style="font-size: small; color: #a6c0ff; font-family: Bliss-Light;"><span style="font-size: small; color: #a6c0ff; font-family: Bliss-Light;"><span style="color: #333399;">Each month Yeldall receives enquiries from men who desperately want to be set free from addiction but who are unable to obtain funding to come to Yeldall Manor. </span><span style="color: #333399;">They are not alone. Whilst 80% of heroin and crack cocaine users say they want to be drug-free, only 2% of addicts who seek help receive funding for residential rehabilitation. Unfortunately, for those who don’t, the chances of overcoming their addiction are very slim</span>. </span></span></span><span style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: "Bliss-Light","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Bliss-Light; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="font-size: small;">In this context we have committed ourselves to developing a </span></span><span style="font-family: "Bliss-Light","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Bliss-Light; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="font-size: small;">bursary fund so that we can give help to more of those who </span></span><span style="font-family: "Bliss-Light","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Bliss-Light; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="font-size: small;">need it.</span></span></span></span></span></p>