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Thanks for taking the time to visit our JustGiving page. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: .1pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: .1pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm;">Kelly and I are doing our first Marathon in Edinburgh on May the 22nd 2011. Why? Well those that know us have probably given up asking that question some time ago! It's more a case of why not. We've both always wanted to do one and I intend for it to be a one off for me so I'm going all out for a PB I'll be proud of when I'm old & grey! We both like a challenge, with Kilimanjaro conquered in June it could become an annual thing for us. 2012? Who knows... <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: .1pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: .1pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm;">We figured we'd set up this site so that any money people wish to donate towards our efforts will go straight to the Joanna Brown Trust. A very good friend of ours Richard Brown set up and runs this fantastic charity in loving memory of his sister Jo who tragically died whilst treking along Lake Baikal in Siberia en route home from the China Olympics on 25th August 2008.  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: .1pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm;">  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: .1pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm;">www.thejoannabrowntrust.org <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: .1pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm;"> The Joanna Brown Trust aims to encourage involvement in sport. To provide people with an opportunity to not just experience sport, but excel in it. 100% of the money The Joanna Brown Trust receives from donations and sponsorship will go towards their cause.      The Joanna Brown Trust represents an opportunity to instil in young people love, enthusiasm and dedication to sport and new challenges. Jo lived her life by these (and indeed many other) key tenets.  She constantly aspired to achieve and experience – whether in netball, rowing, running marathons, or her commitment to new adventures, cultures and opportunities. The colour and variety these brought to her life were underpinned by strong loyalty to, and love of, her family, friends and colleagues. Jo was the first person people turned to for advice, gossip and a fun-filled evening out, as well as undoubtedly good food and wine in abundance.  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: .1pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm;">By supporting the Joanna Brown Trust, whether through financial or time donations, you can be assured of giving as freely as Jo did to those around her and making her as proud of you, as we are of her. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: .1pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm;"> "So when you are lonely and sad at heart,  Go to the friends we know,  Bury your sorrows in doing good deeds,  Miss me, but let me go."   <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: .1pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm;">  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: .1pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; text-align: right;">- last verse of "Miss me, but let me go", anon.  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: .1pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; text-align: right;">(read at Jo's Thanksgiving Service)      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: .1pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm;">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. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: .1pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm;">So please dig deep and donate now.

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