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Channel Challenge 2007
Event: Channel Challenge
Team Members: Georgina Bowis, Stephen Woonton, Ian Johnson, James Butler, Steve Keil, Mark Bryant
£6,570.54 raised of £7,500.00 target
170 donations
My Target:
£7,500.00
£6,570.54 raised so far
How to make a donation
Donate online at - www.justgiving.com/channelswim2007
By mobile internet Scan this code on your smartphone to go straight to Georgina Bowis's page.
By text message to donate £10 Text £10
to 70070
My story
Update - We are starting our swim at 0030hrs on Sunday 16th September!
Watch our progress live on the internet, txt us messages of support and see up to date photos of the swim at the following link: http://www.amslivetrac.com/
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Thank you for visiting our page.
Our team is a group of Microsoft employees based out of Reading, Berkshire.
In September 2007 we will be undertaking a team challenge to raise money for the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust. The trust provides critical support to the emergency services in our the surrounding area and the service it provides is funded only by charitable donations.
Our challenge is to complete a relay swim of the English Channel. The shortest distance across the Channel is from Shakespeare Beach, Dover, to Cap Gris Nez (the headland halfway between Calais and Boulogne). This distance is 18.2 nautical miles which is approximately 21 land miles. We estimate this distance will take us around 14 hours.
The challenge will be completed on one day between 17th and 21st September. Exactly when will depend upon weather conditions.
Similar rules apply for team swims as for solo crossings. No wetsuits or other flotation devices are permitted nor physical contact with the guide boat. Each team member will swim in relay for an hour then continue in rotation until we reach France! We will have to contend with sea temperatures of 18 Degrees C, swells, jellyfish and of course anything else we may come across in the crystal clear
waters of the busiest waterway in the world.
Microsoft will match any donations, made pound for pound.
Many thanks
My gallery 1
My charity
Thames Valley And Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust
Charity Registration No. 1084910
The Thames Valley & Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust provides a life saving service for the counties of Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire (BOB). The Trust is a charity which receives no funding from central Government or the National Lottery to meet its £2.8 million annual running costs.
Donations 170
We will be thinking of you - rather you than me!
Donation by Carol and David on 15/09/07
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
Good Luck Swooner x x x
Donation by Hannah Shepherd on 15/09/07
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
Good luck to you all...you can do it Mark
Donation by Edna (Marks Nan) on 15/09/07
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
Good luck everyone!
Donation by Vicky and Peter Bayley on 15/09/07
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
complete madness, all in a good cause, have fun :)
Donation by simon taylor on 15/09/07
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
George - you are very brave and very mad. Good Luck.
Donation by Stephen & Tara Brand on 15/09/07
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
Go for it! Hope the weather is OK?
Donation by PhilB on 14/09/07
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
Good luck bruv!
Donation by Sarah Woonton on 14/09/07
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
Brrr! Enjoy the early morning swim!
Donation by Jayne & Neil on 14/09/07
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
You are all mental! :) Best of Luck!!
Donation by Bex Bradley on 14/09/07
£25.00
Best of luck to you all!!
Donation by Paula Carter on 14/09/07
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
can you pick me up 200 Marlboro lights on the way back. ta! Good luck!
Donation by Duncan on 14/09/07
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
Don't get cramp Steve !!!!
Donation by Guy Chessell on 14/09/07
£50.00
+ £14.10 Gift Aid
Best of luck! Ian can you pick me up some cheap booze in France please!
Donation by Martin Lebentz on 14/09/07
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
Good luck
Donation by Danny on 14/09/07
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
good luck
Donation by andrew robinson on 14/09/07
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
Good Luck!! YOU CAN DO IT!!!!
Donation by Ankar Sandhu on 14/09/07
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
I am speechless......but you are mad! Best of luck Steve
Donation by Andrew Hume on 14/09/07
£50.00
+ £14.10 Gift Aid
Good luck to all of you!!
Donation by Laura Blackburn on 14/09/07
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
You're all mad - but good luck!
Donation by David Hobbs-Mallyon on 14/09/07
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
An ingenious way of proving whether Great White sharks do swim in British waters! Good luck Mark!
Donation by Dean Lycett on 13/09/07
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
Good Luck Mark, don't think of Jaws - it might put you off.....................
Donation by Warren Strain on 13/09/07
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
Ian, good luck, save your energy, the goose fat and especially your speedos
Donation by Miss Whiplash on 12/09/07
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
good luck Steve & team!
Donation by Jose L. Cruz on 12/09/07
£8.00
Awesome thing to do - good luck you guys!
Donation by Chris Rothwell on 11/09/07
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
Donation summary
- * Online donations£4,046.00
- Offline donations£2,524.54
- Text donations£0.00
- Total raised£6,570.54
- Gift Aid£1,074.05
* Charities pay a small fee for our service. Find out how much it is and what we do for it.
