Zia Arden is fundraising for Auditory VerbalUK

Run for AVUK

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on 19/09/2009

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Team members:

Zia Arden, Peter Arden, James Pickering, Thekla Fellas plus team from DAC, Aarthi Nandi, Gayani Giles, Matthew Marsh, Harriette Dykes

Raising money for

Auditory VerbalUK

Charity Registration No. 1095133

Our results - and our children - speak for themselves! Auditory VerbalUK is the UK's only Centre for Auditory Verbal Therapy. Every day in Britain, two children are born with severe and permanent hearing impairment. This disability will leave many of these children isolated and failing to achieve their educational and social potential. Advances in hearing aid and cochlear implant technology, combined with AVT, enable children to learn how to listen, to understand what they are hearing and to speak for themselves. Please visit www.avuk.org to learn how you can help more children step into the hearing world.

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Zia Arden

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Raised: 72%

Target: £10,000.00
Raised so far: £7,190.00

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My story

I cannot begin to describe how it felt when our darling daughter, Alisha, was diagnosed as deaf. The grief and despair were overwhelming. We didn't know what it meant. We thought that she would never be able to hear, speak, participate in a conversation, listen to music, sing, hear us say her name or call us when she needed us.

We ordered every book we could find on deafness. Most of them made me cry (and cry and cry) and then I read one with a chapter about auditory verbal therapy which gave clear answers to our many questions and gave us hope. We managed to track down Jacqueline Stokes, then one of only 2 auditory verbal therapists in this country. Alisha started auditory verbal therapy when she was three and a half months old. By the time she was two she had "graduated", although she was not at all impressed by this and organised a demonstration (by her soft toys) to register her disapproval at the scaling down of her "playdates" at Auditory Verbal UK (AVUK).

I knew we had reached a point I could not have imagined when, on a flight, after several hours of non-stop talking I had to tell Alisha that there was to be no more talking or there would be big trouble. As I write she is singing herself to sleep. All we wanted was that she should be given the tools to fulfil her own potential, AVUK gave us those tools. Alisha is now in a mainstream school, participates fully and has no trouble keeping up (she also does not stop talking and sings beautifully). That would not have been possible for her without auditory verbal therapy.

AVUK was set up to provide AV therapy to deaf babies and to train auditory verbal therapists so that all deaf children might have the opportunity to develop age appropriate spoken language by the age of 5. The reason we are running is that AVUK urgently needs funding to get through a difficult period. Please help us continue AVUK's work so that all deaf children can have the opportunity that Alisha has had.

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	Well done! Great effort, especially at 8am! Donation by ALISON McADAMS 02/10/09	£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid
	Well run! See you soon - Love Jackie, Neil and Georgina Donation by Jackie Newstead 02/10/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Zia, well done! How did you manage to run all the way around and not spill your Gin and Tonic?! xx Donation by Katrina Robinson 01/10/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	With love from Graeme and Seanin McPherson Donation by Seanin McPherson 30/09/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Wishing you every success with your Charity. Donation by Mandy Reid 29/09/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Donation by Anonymous 29/09/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Well done and for such a deserving cause. Donation by Jane Mercer 25/09/09	£35.00 + £9.87 Gift Aid
	Well done everyone Donation by Alex Wilks 23/09/09	£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid
	Well done Thekla! Donation by Maria Late Lodge 23/09/09	£20.00
	Congratulations!!! Such a great cause. xxx Donation by Aliya Young 22/09/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Congratulations - a fine achievement and a worthy cause (I will need to see photographic evidence of the event) Donation by John Muncey 22/09/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Well done on a fabulous achievement this weekend...and a wonderful daughter too! Donation by Karen Moore 21/09/09	£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid
	Zia we are so proud of you. 15 mins faster than you thought. You certainly earnth this bonus. Donation by Thekla, Elliot, Oliver and James. 21/09/09	£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid
	Zia - amazing achievement and such a worthy cause! David xx Donation by David Golten 21/09/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Sorry for the delay - glad you completed the run ! Donation by Davinia Willys 21/09/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Well done! Donation by Jeremy Child 21/09/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Eeek ... you've probably finished by now. Sorry this is so late. xx Donation by C,J,O,I &P - The Fosters 20/09/09	£50.00
	Good luck Thekla and all. All the best, Andrew and Sue Donation by Elliot Laurie 19/09/09	£50.00
	Here's the other half and best of luck Thekla ! Donation by Robert Highmore 19/09/09	£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid
	To Zia, Best of luck. We'll be thinking of you. Louise and Marc Donation by Louise and Marc Vandevelde 19/09/09	£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid
	We will all be thinking of you tomorrow morning. Good luck. Donation by Soraya, Zayan, Farhana and Karim 18/09/09	£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid
	Best of luck. Donation by Michael Edwards 18/09/09	£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid
	Donation by Jenny Hermer 18/09/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Good Luck Gayani and the team. You can do it! Donation by Yvonne Burton 18/09/09	£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid
	This is by way of a thank you to everyone who is running or has contributed, and above all to Jacqueline and everyone at AV-UK. Donation by Peter 18/09/09	£500.00 + £141.03 Gift Aid
	Good luck I hope that you will do well and I hope that everyone does the best that they can. My tip is try your best and don't talk Love Alisha Donation by Alisha 18/09/09	£10.00
	best of luck Donation by hugo groves 18/09/09	£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid
	Here's to a great cause! We will root for you all. Eric, Linda, Maximilian, Marcus and Magnolia Min Donation by Linda Lin 18/09/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Good luck Thekla and Zia - I know you can do it! Donation by Simon Mostyn 18/09/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Good luck Thekla and Zia. I hope Wednesday night's training session helps on Saturday. Donation by Glen Sinclair 18/09/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

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* Total raised online:	£5,815.00
Offline donations:	£1,375.00
Gift Aid plus supplement:	£1,284.74

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