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Arthur's page
$6,997.49 raised of $7,641.68 target
72 donations
My Target:
$7,641.68
$6,997.49 raised so far
How to make a donation
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My story
Arthur Cross, 50, from Kelso, will cycle an average of 90 miles a day to complete the 1300-mile ride in a fortnight, travelling clockwise from in the southwest to Berwick–upon-Tweed in the Southeast.
Starting on 1 July, Arthur and his friend Ian King, a teacher from Yetholm, will stop at various towns and villages en route to raise awareness of Christian Aid’s climate change work. The pair will met local Christian Aid groups but also hope to meet a new audience and to raise £5,000 for Christian Aid partners in .
The money will go to two partners in a match-funded partnership scheme, ‘Office de Developpement des Eglises Evangeliques’ (ODE), and ‘Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe’ (HELP). Every pound raised by Christian Aid will be matched by another four pounds from the European Commission. Arthur and Ian therefore hope to generate £20,000 towards the partners’ work, which aims to reduce chronic poverty and hunger for nearly 1 million people by adapting the environment to grow more crops.
‘The whole thing is very appealing,’ said Arthur. ‘I’m looking forward to going up to the Western Isles, meeting people and helping them to get an understanding of what we are doing. I want to get across just how difficult it is for people living in places like and what a big difference a small amount of money can make.’
Arthur, also works as mental health support worker for the Scottish Association for Mental Health, has cycled on and off throughout his life but only discovered the joys of road cycling as he got older. His co-cyclist Ian cycles nine miles to and from his school each day.
The pair have undertaken two previous fundraising cycle rides, one through cities in the Central Belt and one tracing the shape of the AIDS ribbon through . Each ride raised £3000 that was split between Christian Aid and the Scottish Borders Africa Aids Group. The scale of the 2010 challenge encouraged them to work closely with Christian Aid and make the most of the charity’s close local links throughout rural Scotland
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My charity
Christian Aid
Charity Registration No. 1105851
Poverty is an outrage against humanity. It robs people of dignity, freedom and hope, of power over their own lives. Christian Aid has a vision - an end to poverty - and we believe that vision can become a reality.
Donations 72
09/11/10
£41.00
01/10/10
£65.00
+ £18.33 Gift Aid
Well done, Ian.
13/09/10
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
13/09/10
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
hope you make the £5k you need
12/09/10
read about your achievement in The Southern. Well done.
10/09/10
Hope you reach your target as Christian Aid certainly need all the money you can raise.
26/08/10
£75.00
Ian & Arthur Well done! from Rosa, Colin & Martin
20/08/10
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
Keep on going.
19/08/10
£10.00
Glad to support you as a member of your wee sister Marian's church.
11/08/10
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
11/08/10
£15.00
+ £4.23 Gift Aid
From our friend Margaret Thomson who says - well done!
22/07/10
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
well done!
21/07/10
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
Congratulations
21/07/10
£50.00
+ £14.10 Gift Aid
Delighted to support this splendid effort. John & Isabelle Patrick
20/07/10
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
20/07/10
£100.00
+ £28.21 Gift Aid
18/07/10
£10.00
Good luck in reaching your goal
18/07/10
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
This is from our friends Ken and Theresa
18/07/10
£10.00
Good Work Fella
18/07/10
£5.50
+ £1.55 Gift Aid
18/07/10
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
May the road rise to meet you....... (not!)
17/07/10
I love cycling in Scotland. May the wind be always behind you and the hills downhill
17/07/10
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
Just a little extra to celebrate finishing. Well done. Hope the ankles recover soon. Cath and Richard
17/07/10
£50.00
+ £14.10 Gift Aid
Well Done, Ian, Arthur and Chris. A great achievement and a great cause.
16/07/10
£25.00
+ £7.05 Gift Aid
Donation summary
- * Online donations$3,757.42
- Offline donations$3,240.07
- Text donations$0.00
- Total raised$6,997.49
- Gift Aid$805.02
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