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Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page. The Challenge Well I made it!  5 days of gruelling walking on the undulating terrain that is the Great Wall.  What a fantastic and amazing experience, made all the more special by knowing that we collectively raised over £61, 000 for the YCC.  Here's to the next challenge!! Alea Casino Ladies Only Cinema Night Thanks to everyone who attended this event.  We raised nearly £100 towards the Trek fund.  Big Update Wow, I've just hit my target with £110 in sponsorship to log with YCC.  I'm so pleased and would like to say a huge Thank you to everyone who has helped and supported me in this challenge.  Thanks especially to my Mum and Dad who have worked tirelessly for the cause and have gone above and beyond the call of duty with their bag packing and standing in the freezing cold at Elland Road in February.  Thanks also to my great friends who've helped with bag packs, collections, selling tickets for various events and those who were happy to make a fool of themselves along with me trying to Line Dance!!  Everyone has been just fantastic and I've been amazed by people's generosity of Spirit.  Here's to getting fit now!! Last Event Coming Up Ladies Cinema Night: Dirty Dancing/Officer and a Gentleman screening at the Alea Casino on Saturday 17th July.  Tickets are £6 including popcorn.  There is a licensed bar at the Casino and Alea have very generously agrred to take any money raised from drinks off the room hire for the evening.   Line Dance Evening A big thanks to everyone who came to the Line Dance class on Friday Night.  We had a great night and raised £264.50.  Nearly There!!  Asda Bag Pack Thanks to my fantastic family who helped with this and helped me raise £335.25 towards my target. Dates for Your Diary Line dance master class on Friday 25th June at Burley Club from 7.30 to 11pm. Tickets are £4 for adults and £2.50 per child (over 8s).  A big thankyou goes to Margaret for donating her teaching services free of charge. Charity Pub Crawl Thanks to Deb, Lucy and Sam for coming along on saturday to help with our pub crawl along the Otley run.  We had a great night, had lots of fun and raised £100.    Next Fundraising Dates 80s Fancy Dress evening at Colton Institute on 15th May.  Tickets £10 per person including Disco and Buffet and lots of nostalgia.  Come and re-live your teens!! Bag pack at Asda, Killingbeck on Sat 12th June.  Please come along and support us if you can.  This is the last one and we'd like to make it a big earner! 80s Charity Night Thank you to everyone who came along to this event.  Everyone agreed it was a fun night and we saw some serious retro moves on the dance floor.  Particularly from MC hammer, photos to follow!  The event raised a fantastic £531.30 so again a huge thanks for your support.  Particular thanks goes to DJ Steve who donated his services in memory of his Dad and Occasions catering for providing the buffet at cost.  Also a big thankyou to my best friend Sarah who is a graphic designer and designed all the promotional material for nothing (you're the best x) Next Fundraising Dates Bag pack at Asda, Killingbeck on Sat 12th June.  Please come along and support us if you can.  This is the last one and we'd like to make it a big earner!  Line dance master class on Friday 25th June at Burley Club from 7.30 to 11pm. Tickets are £4 for adults and £2.50 per child (over 8s).  A big thankyou goes to Margaret for donating her teaching services free of charge. On the back of the 80s success I am planning a Dirty Dancing/Officer and a Gentleman screening for the romantics among us details to follow. Also I am currently trying to organise a pamper night for all those stressed out Mums.   Charity Pub Crawl Thanks to Deb, Lucy and Sam for coming along on saturday to help with our pub crawl along the Otley run.  We had a great night, had lots of fun and raised £100.    Next Fundraising Dates 80s Fancy Dress evening at Colton Institute on 15th May.  Tickets £10 per person including Disco and Buffet and lots of nostalgia.  Come and re-live your teens!! Bag pack at Asda, Killingbeck on Sat 12th June.  Please come along and support us if you can.  This is the last one and we'd like to make it a big earner!  Morrison's Bag Pack We had managed to raise a total of £280 at our bag pack on Saturday.   Leeds Rhino's Collection Thanks to some very dedicated friends who stood in the freezing cold at Elland Road tonight, we raised just over £300. Toy Sale We raised £16 between two of us selling second hand toys and books at Colton toddlers.   Coffee Morning and Spa Day Raffle Thanks to everyone who bought tickets for our raffle and those who attended our coffee morning for the Grand Draw.  It was won by Diane with ticket Yellow 270.  This raised £123 towards my target.   Offline Sponsors  I'm up to £96 in sponsors offline so far so a huge thank you to all those who've been so generous to date.    Training I'm starting to put the training program into practice now.  I'm walking to school every morning, have been swimming for the last few weeks, banned take-aways etc and have now arranged a date for our first walk on Feb 28th.  I'll feel much better once I've got that first walk under my belt.  Just need to get my new walking boots ordered now!! Garforth Table Top Sale Another successful event.  I raised £35 from having a good clearout.  80s Night This is coming along nicely.  It looks like the date will be 23rd April.  We already have a DJ provisionally booked who has donated his services in return for a small donation to St Gemma's where his Father recently passed away, which we are more than happy with.  We have the beginnings of a raffle with my own Hairdressers generously donating £50 in vouchers and several other prizes in the pipeline. Upcoming Events Just to let you know we are planning the following events in the next few months.  As always any volunteers are more than welcome: 1. Coffee morning at Temple Newsam Halton Primary, Provisional date 8th March. 2. Eighties night including a disco and raffle, date to be advised but hopefully April (34rd April??). 3. Charity pub crawl along the Otley Run in Chinese dress, Any volunteers?  Provisional date 15th May. 4. Another bag pack at Asda on 12th June, 10-2pm.  Any volunteers would be gratefully appreciated. Tesco Bag Pack I'd just like to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped with the Tesco bag packing on 16th January.  It was a huge success and raised in excess of £340 a special  thanks also to Oulton Raiders under 11s who turned out to offer their support.  It gave me a real buzz to be raising money for such a fantastic cause and made me feel positive about reaching my target.  Update Hi everyone and thanks for the generous donations so far.  I am doing a charity bag packing session at Seacroft TESCO on 16th January to hopefully raise more funds.  If anyone can spare an hour or two to help out I would be very grateful.    The Charity Yorkshire Cancer Centre – aiming higher fighting cancer The new wing at St James's Institute of Oncology will centralise and expand cancer services and provide treatment for a catchment population of 2.6 million people throughout Yorkshire. Charitable donations are vital in helping to provide supplementary facilities and patient comforts not usually available through NHS budgets. The Centre has a £10 million Appeal set up to advance medical research, buy the latest generation of equipment, and to provide more ‘home from home’ comforts for patients, their family and friends   The Challenge This is a 5 day trek on top of the Great Wall of China snaking up and down through the mountains around Beijing as part of a 9 day challenge.  I will be walking a total of 40 miles on both restored and un-restored sections of this modern wonder and will be walking up thousands of steps along the route.       My Reasons       I feel that this £10 million appeal is a worthwhile project to support as I personally have lost two grandparents to cancer and also have friends and family who’s lives have been touched in some way by this dreadful disease.         The Fundraising Details    In order to take part in this challenge, I must raise a minimum of £2, 850 by 16th July 2010.  A proportion of this will go towards the funding of the trip including a trek guide and dedicated UK doctor.  A minimum of 50% of any donation will go directly to the £10 million appeal.  Any monies raised above this target will all go directly to the appeal.        I would be grateful if you could support me in my challenge, no matter how small the donation.  This is a fantastic opportunity to experience something wonderful, to challenge myself personally and to raise money for an extremely worthwhile cause.     Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity. So please dig deep and donate now.        Thanks, Vicky x

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