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Aussie Channel Challenge by Team Budgy.

By the time your mid-thirties arrive, the list of ambitions harboured as a

10 year old tends to have faded from view.   Winning Wimbledon is no

longer a viable option.  Fortunately, this means there is space for another

obvious project - swimming the English Channel.   Swimming the English

Channel doesn't need anything apart from a good dose of enthusiasm and

heaps of training, although being able to swim helps quite a lot.

Which is why we have decided to swim the English Channel in July of 2006, as members of a three man relay team called “Team Budgy”, for charity. 

We'll be donating to a UK and Australian Charity and have chosen The Princes Trust for the UK. Clearly a project like this goes nowhere without the generous support of you and every single person you know! 

Thank-you for your donation and please tell everyone you know who may be interested in supporting our swim.

Thanks again - Team Budgy - Adam, Angus and Andrew

All the best chaps! Donation by Anonymous 13/07/06  

£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid

Good Luck Ads - Aussie Legend! Well Done boys!!! Donation by Kate Parker 13/07/06  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Good luck Budgy Boys Donation by Ray Murray 13/07/06  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Donation by George 13/07/06  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

GO ARKU....grab some French bubbly when you get there so we can celebrate when you get back! Donation by Neels 13/07/06  

£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid

Good luck boys, go hard!! Donation by Gibbo 13/07/06  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Good luck mate! Donation by Gav 13/07/06  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Good luck Adam!! Donation by Maddy 12/07/06  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

go for gold Donation by Fleta Burbury 12/07/06  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

As agreed, I am tripling the amount raised by the staff of McArthurGlen UK Limited. Donation by J.W. Kaempfer 12/07/06  

£744.00 + £209.85 Gift Aid

Great effort!! Best of luck. Donation by Emma Spencer 12/07/06  

£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid

Come on Aussie come on, come on!! Donation by Kate Wilkinson 12/07/06  

£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid

Good luck to all of you! Next time, the Atlantic... Donation by Rebecca 12/07/06  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Best of luck boys and make sure you don't disturb any jellyfish!!!! Enjoy the beers afterwards! Donation by Helen Richards-Carpenter 12/07/06  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

If David Walliams can do it on his own i'm sure you guys will not have a problem!! Good Lick! Donation by Cathy Zaccheo 12/07/06  

£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid

Can't believe I am sponsoring a bunch of Aussies to swim to France... Donation by Ben Lowther 11/07/06  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Good Luck Adam! Donation by Hudson 11/07/06  

£550.00

Good Luck to Angus & team....just don't get swept away! Donation by Armida 11/07/06  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

At least you won't have sharks to worry about. Don't bother about stopping to enjoy our Coral Reef. Donation by Patrick Moorin 10/07/06  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Very best of luck Angus and Team Budgy. Make sure you've stocked up on the goose fat! Donation by Juliet Samson 10/07/06  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

Much admiration for your task - Good luck & avoid the shipping lanes! Donation by Tamsin Taylor 10/07/06  

£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid

Good Luck! Donation by Charlotte French 07/07/06  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Blimey, not just pretty faces then! Donation by Angela 07/07/06  

£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid

And I just thought that you sat at your desk all day pushing paper around!!! Good Luck - Donation by Trudy Evans 07/07/06  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

You have set yourselves an amazing challenge. Good luck! Donation by Alan Genzel 07/07/06  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Very good effort. Watch out for the jelly fish though Donation by Dewi Joseph 07/07/06  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

With bodies like those, how could I not - Good Luck boys! Donation by Katie Daniels (Simmons) 06/07/06  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Watch out for rogue scouse swimmers....they'll be after those budgy smugglers! Good luck Donation by Charles Blair 06/07/06  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Good luck - don't get your budgie smugglers in a knot and go for it! Donation by Lindsay 06/07/06  

£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid

Spreading the Budgie gospel in such cold water is stuff of legend indeed, good luck guys... Donation by Stu P 06/07/06  

£50.00
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