still time to sponsor me !

this sunday i will be cycling 100 miles for joining jack. please sponsor me and get me to £300. just £20 short now.

please keep sponsoring and help me get to £300. ..

£280 raised so far, please help me keep going.

somebody please help me get closer to £300! #makeadifference

please help me get to £250.....

still need some sponsors to get to the £250 mark. please help out

still need sponsors! please sponsor me anything you can, every bit helps.

please sponsor me anything you can. every little helps!

only 3 weeks now! please sponsor me anything you can and help make a difference!

Only 3mths now till joining jack team ride the manchester 100! please sponsor me

£20 short of £200. please sponsor me and help little jack

£20 short of £200. please sponsor me and help little jack

£20 short of £200 for joining jack. please sponsor me and little jack

please keep sponsoring! help me get to £200

Keep sponsoring please! You can make a difference

£165 raised so far, please help me get to £200 #joiningjack

nearly reached my target. please sponsor me and help joining jack

please help and sponsor me

 

Please sponsor me to cycle 100 miles for joining jack

 There are 260 riders registered to ride for joining jack in this event now, so we have totally surpassed the initial 100 riders target. We are now hoping for 500 riders raising at least £100 each! That would mean an amazing £50,000 raised for joining jack.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page. On the 1st september, i will be cycling 100 miles from the national cycling centre in manchester out through cheshire and back again to the cycle centre. Myself and over 200 riders(hoping for 500 come september) are taking part in aid of raising funds for the joining jack charity. Please give anything you can to help us find a cure for this terrible illness.

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’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’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

So please dig deep and donate now.

Below is a bit of information about Jack from his parents,

Our son Jack is everything a four-year-old should be. He is cheeky, excitable and a big softy at heart. He loves to make dens, play hide and seek and wave his lightsaber like a Jedi Knight. In a few months time he will start school and cannot wait to begin his journey into the big wide world. But what our beautiful son does not yet know is that he has a terminal, incurable disease.

In October 2011 we received the shattering news that Jack has Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Failing a medical breakthrough, Jack's life will follow a predetermined path, mapped out by this progressive muscle wasting condition. In short, he will no longer be able to walk by the time he reaches adolescence and will lose the use of every single muscle in his body thereafter. He may need spinal rods to keep him upright and ventilation to help him breath. Eventually his heart and lungs will fail and he will die.

There are no words to describe the utter devastation felt upon hearing that your child's life will be cut short because there is no cure. We have had the greatest pleasure watching Jack develop into the amazing boy he is today but now, unbelievably, we must prepare ourselves for his steady decline. And the worst part? Seeing him struggle as his body wastes away and being absolutely powerless to help.

Since his diagnosis, we are not ashamed to say that we have cried every day and have spent endless hours scouring the internet to find answers. Currently there is very little awareness of DMD and research into finding possible treatments is drastically underfunded. However, over the past few years, with help from charities around the world, human clinical trials have begun to take place with encouraging results. It's for this reason that we have set up our own charity, to help move things forward for Jack and other children like him.

We have always wanted a quiet family life and have never felt comfortable asking for anything but now is not the time to be proud. We cannot sit back and watch Jack ravaged by this condition if there is any chance, that we can make his future a more positive one. From the bottom of our hearts we are asking if you can help join our fight to eradicate DMD.

You can contribute by making a donation, organising an event or simply adding us onto your facebook or twitter page. Time is precious to us now and for ANY support you can give we will be eternally grateful.

They say that children with DMD accept it better than their parents but the day we tell Jack he is not well will be the toughest day of our lives. To know that we are facing a future without our beautiful son is impossible to believe. At least with your help we will be able to tell him that we gave everything we had to this fight of all fights.