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Team Totally Tuk'd - Rickshaw Rally

Gary Ayling is raising money for Parkinson’s UK

Participants: Gary Ayling, Jamie Watt, Jamie Waterston

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The Rickshaw Run · 5 April 2012

Parkinson’s UK Verified by JustGiving
RCN 258197 (England & Wales), SC037554 (Scotland)
Anyone can get Parkinson’s. It gets worse over time and there’s no cure. Yet. Funding research into the most promising treatments, we’re getting closer to a cure. Until then, we're improving life for people with Parkinson’s, and the people in their lives. Together we'll find a cure.

Story

<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: red; font-family: Arial-BoldMT; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">What is the Rickshaw Run?</span></span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Imagine the fastest, safest, most earth-munching all-terrain vehicle in the world. Then imagine the opposite. Three wheels, half a horse power and more fun than any other vehicle on planet earth, the humble Rickshaw is undoubtedly the ultimate long distance, off-road machine. Despite being designed for short distances on road.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Now imagine the bliss of trying to get this untrusty steed over the Himalayas or across the Rajasthan desert. This then is the Rickshaw Run; an unsupported maniac of an adventure which wobbles over thousands of miles of ridiculous terrain. The most stupid and probably the best thing you could possibly do with two weeks.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: red; font-family: Arial-BoldMT; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Why this charity?</span></span></strong></p> <p><span class="NormalWebArialMTChar"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">One person in every 500 has Parkinson's. That's about 120,000 people in the UK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People with Parkinson</span></span><span class="NormalWebArialMTChar"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; mso-fareast-font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: ArialMT;">&rsquo;</span></span><span class="NormalWebArialMTChar"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: ArialMT;">s can find that their movements become slower so it takes longer to do things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There's currently no cure and it is not known yet know why people get the condition.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT;">A worthy charity in its own right, but one of the daring team members of Totally Tuk</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial-BoldMT; mso-fareast-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: ArialMT;">&rsquo;</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT;">d recently discovered that a close member of family suffers from this illness. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" class="MsoNormal"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Any donation would be really appreciated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT;">The more money we raise the more bare able this insane challenge will be</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial-BoldMT; mso-fareast-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-ascii-font-family: ArialMT;">&hellip;</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT;">you never know, we might even win the rally. </span></span> <p>&nbsp;</p> </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Please check out our team website: <a href="http://rickshawrun12s.theadventurists.com/totally-tukd1">http://rickshawrun12s.theadventurists.com/totally-tukd1</a></p>

Donation summary

Total
£1,132.00
+ £175.50 Gift Aid
Online
£1,132.00
Offline
£0.00

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