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Graeme Potts is raising money for Plan International UK

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Hell on the Humber/ Osmotherley Phoenix/Hull Marathon/Fellsman 60/Yorkshire Three Peaks Race/Wuthering Hike/Round Ripon Ultra/Rowbotham Round Rotherham/Calderdale Hike · 1 January 2012

Plan International UK is a global children’s charity working to create lasting equality for girls and protect the rights of all children. Plan International works with communities in over 50 countries across the world to tackle the root causes of exclusion and injustice for all children.

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<p>Hi everyone and thanks for visiting my JustGiving page.</p> <p>Next year I'm running heaps of marathon/ultra-marathon events in the hope of raising a whopping &pound;1000.00 for PLAN UK - Girl campaign.&nbsp; PLAN UK is an organisation that I have been a part of for&nbsp;a few&nbsp;years now, and can't commend them highly enough on the work they're doing.</p> <p>This specific campaign is all about getting girls into education, to give them a greater chance in life, and hopefully get them out of poverty.&nbsp; It's a great cause, and is so incredibly important.&nbsp; Please check out&nbsp;the web site for more&nbsp;information.</p> <p><a href="http://www.plan-uk.org/">http://www.plan-uk.org/</a></p> <p>The events I will be taking part in are as follows:</p> <p>Hell on the Humber (12hour race around the Humber Bridge)</p> <p>Hull Marathon (a marathon...erm...in Hull)</p> <p>Osmotherley Phoenix (33 mile trail run scaling 3500ft)</p> <p>Fellsman 60 ( 62 miles 11000ft in less than 24hours)</p> <p>Yorkshire Three Peaks Race (23.3 miles timed event taking on Whernside, Pen-y-Ghent, Ingleborough)</p> <p>Round Ripon Ultra (35miles..erm in Ripon, erm, going round it?)</p> <p>Rowbotham Round Rotherham (same as above, but 50miles, and in Rotherham)</p> <p>Wuthering Hike - (32miles, 4400ft)</p> <p>Calderdale Hike (36miles)</p> <p>Hopefully I might have time for a few more races too.</p> <p>If anyone would like to join me in any of these then please feel free, the more the merrier and at some point I could probably do with a buddy to stop me from going insane.</p> <p>This is going to be one hell of a challenging year and you can follow&nbsp;all&nbsp;my ups and downs on my running blog:</p> <p><a href="http://run-g-run.blogspot.com">http://run-g-run.blogspot.com</a></p> <p>All the momey donated is going directly to PLAN UK and directly to this scheme.&nbsp; Please give what you can and tell your friends and family about this too.</p> <p>If we can help one girl out, just a tiny bit, just make life easier for one little girl then it will all be worth the effort.</p> <p>We can make a difference.</p> <p>Thank you for viewing my JustGiving page.</p> <p>G</p> <p>&nbsp;P.S You can now donate to my JustGiving page via text.&nbsp; All you need to do is text the code BCGV61 and the amount you want to donate (&pound;5) to 70070.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Thanks</p>

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