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About the charity
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SPARKS
Sparks is a charity dedicated to funding pioneering paediatric research with a single aim: Helping ALL babies to be born healthy and stay healthy. Sparks is the only children’s charity to fund research across the whole spectrum of paediatric medicine. Since 1991, Sparks has committed over £16.3 million to fund research into conditions such as childhood cancer, childhood arthritis, meningitis, club foot, cerebral palsy, spina bifida and all the risks associated with premature birth.
www.sparks.org.uk
Charity Registration No
1003825 (England & Wales), SCO39482 (Scotland)
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| Fundraising target: |
£10,000.00 |
| Donations so far: |
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19,450.01
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| Personal message: |
10th December 2008
Thank you for visiting our fundraising page.
Both Chris & I successfully completed our Marathon attempt on December 7th 2008. Chris came in 47th overall and I finished in 62nd place. Not bad for two novices with injury interruptions throughout our training!
After the race we promised ourselves a celebration. We wanted to party hard, but found it hard to party and were fast asleep by 8pm: in mitigation we had been up since 3am & run 26.2 miles in the sweltering heat. Now we know why not everyone that sets out to run a marathon hits the finish line!
When we set out to raise funds for the Barbados Children’s Trust and SPARKS we set ourselves a target of raising a minimum of £10,000 to be shared equally between the two charities. We are pleased to say that we have already exceeded that target, but we are not stopping there. The fundraising will continue until this page closes in July 2009, by which time we hope to have raised enough money for the BCT to fully fund a community playground.
During our 8 days on the island we were kept very busy in publicising our efforts and the Barbados Children’s Trust in particular, and in preparing for the race itself. We would like to say special thanks to all of you for making the event such a success.
To those of you, who have already made a donation, THANK YOU. To those who have pledged your support, please, please cough up! and to those have not yet made up your mind , please DO! – it WILL make a REAL difference to the children.
We plan to post updates to the site regularly as we have news to report, so please do bookmark the page and tell your friends about it.
Thank you
Anil & Chris
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