Hi, I'm Dan, and I'll be running in a number of competitive races throughout 2010, including at least one half-marathon. The money I'm raising will be donated to the ME
Association of the United Kingdom, which is set up to provide support
for sufferers of ME & CFS - affecting around 240,000 people in this country alone.
That's basically a quarter of a million people, potentially tens of thousands of bright, talented minds, old and young, often being held back from ambition, from promising careers, from education, sometimes suffering for many years and often receiving little understanding from the people around them, and struggling to find medical remedy. ME can have a wide-range of effects, from chronic fatigue, to aches, excruciating pains and a number of other ailments that due to their unusual nature remain undiagnosed or acknowledged - ME might seem invisible, but its very, very real.
I've not done anything like this before, but in doing so I want to
raise awareness of a condition so regularly misunderstood,
whilst paying tribute to the many silent sufferers, who courageously endure and live with M.E. day-to-day, and I'll do this simply by making a few quid for the worthwhile cause of the association.
Sufferers deserve more.
So all donations are welcomed. Thank you for visiting.
Dan
Raised:
25%
Raised so far: £126.00
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Good luck with the marathon - from all at Western Horse UK - great cause Donation by Melanie Crouch on 08/12/09 |
£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid |
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It's brilliant that you are doing the 1/2 Marathon!! Good luck Dan!!! Donation by Daisy Tempest on 06/09/09 |
£10.00 |
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Dan - Your US friends are impressed (and amazed) that you are doing this; and now that we have donated you really have to do it. No excuses! xoxo-ABI Donation by ABI-US on 02/09/09 |
£50.00 |
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Good Luck! I hope you reach your target. Donation by Alessandra Parsons on 01/09/09 |
£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid |
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Donation by Lisa R on 25/08/09 |
£10.00 |
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Good for you! A very worthy cause. Donation by Lucy Bulpin on 24/08/09 |
£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid |
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Full marathon next! I did the 2nd London and then son Ben did this years! Donation by Tony Rudall on 24/08/09 |
£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid |
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Good luck Dan, great cause xx Donation by Lucy Culpin on 24/08/09 |
£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid |
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Donation by Paul Hanley on 24/08/09 |
£6.00 |
| * Total raised online: | £106.00 |
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| Offline donations: | £20.00 |
| Mobile donations: | £0.00 |
| Total Raised: | £126.00 |
| Gift Aid plus supplement: | £8.46 |
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