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David Blackmore is raising money for Cancer Research UK’s Bobby Moore Fund
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The Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK Project Namibia 2011 · 10 June 2011 ·

Stephanie Moore MBE set up the Bobby Moore Fund in partnership with Cancer Research UK, following the death of her husband, Bobby Moore, from bowel cancer. The Bobby Moore Fund is now a leader in the fight against bowel cancer, funding research that’s helping more people to survive than ever before.

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<p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">I shall be taking part in my second international project with The Bobby Moore Fund in Namibia in June 2011. &nbsp;I need to raise at least &pound;4000 and can only get there with your help.</span></span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Along with a group of volunteers, I shall be travelling to The Tubusis settlement in the Damaraland region of Namibia, on the edge of the vast Namib Desert.</span></span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Tubusis Primary School has approximately 275 pupils, from pre-primary school age to grade seven.</span></span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The school consists of 8 classrooms, plus a pre-primary rooms and a library. Although the school buildings are in reasonably good shape structurally, they are in need of general need of repairs to walls, paint work, doors and locks, ceilings and windows.</span></span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The building that houses the pre-primary room and the library stands separately to the rest of the school, and is in a really bad condition. This requires general repairs; the installation of new floors and proper furniture; the conversion of part of the library into a computer room; and the provision of books to stock the library.</span></span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The school has sufficient suitable land for a football field, or another sports facility.&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Funds raised through the project will remain in the UK, helping to support the work of the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK in their research into treating and finding a cure for bowel cancer.</span></span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving &ndash; they will never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they&rsquo;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&rsquo;s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</span></span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">So please dig deep and donate now.</span></span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Thanks!!</span></span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">David</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Donation summary

Total
£4,355.09
+ £315.77 Gift Aid
Online
£1,225.09
Offline
£3,130.00

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