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On 10 August, with my daughter Hannah as an expert guide, I started cycling from Land's End to John o'Groats (1000 miles), to celebrate birthdays and to raise funds for the British Academy. We celebrated Hannah's 40th birthday en route on 18 August, and my 70th on 29 August at John o'Groats. Then we went on to Orkney. 110 years between us! We reported our progress on LE JoG Blog on the British Academy website. An edited and illustrated version (available as a pdf file) forms the concluding item in The British Academy Review, no. 16. 

We set a modest target of raising at least £2,000 -- £2 for each pleasurable and punishing mile! Actually we reached this target on Day 1 of the ride, but we always hoped to exceed this target comfortably. All the money will be used in a good cause. Your contribution will help maintain the Academy's independence, its capacity to act and its support for younger scholars at a time of cuts. So go on, support us to the tune of at least a penny a mile!

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So please dig deep and donate now.

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Donations 145

 

Hurray for celebrating 110 years in this way! Will watch your progress in case we can cheer you on through the Scottish lowlands. Good luck xx

Donation by Margaret Buchanan-Smith on 07/08/10

£15.00

+ £4.23 Gift Aid

 

Best of luck, we couldn't do it, but Bob might canoe it!!

Donation by Sally and Bob Pascall on 06/08/10

£50.00

+ £14.10 Gift Aid

 

Good luck and enjoy! Just watch out for Providence Hill!! xxx

Donation by Emmanuelle Denis on 06/08/10

£20.00

+ £5.64 Gift Aid

 

great idea! good luck and happy birthday.

Donation by Anonymous on 06/08/10

£15.00

 

Happy Birthdays, Hardy Bikers!

Donation by anonymous on 06/08/10

£50.00

+ £14.10 Gift Aid

 

You're both mad ;-) Good luck, happy birthdays and have a great time!

Donation by Michelle Nunn on 06/08/10

£20.00

+ £5.64 Gift Aid

 

Fantastic idea. Maybe we will see a demonstration effect with a flotilla of Heads of Departments bicycling to Whitehall to protest the cuts...

Donation by Hazel Smith on 06/08/10

£20.00

+ £5.64 Gift Aid

 

Thank you for doing this endurance feat in a most important cause

Donation by Claudine McCreadie on 06/08/10

£10.00

+ £2.82 Gift Aid

 

Get pedalling. I only wish you were both Sikh so could pinch the Sikhs in the City moniker (except you won't really be in the city, it's just funny).

Donation by kate upshon on 06/08/10

£20.00

+ £5.64 Gift Aid

 

Donation by anonymous on 05/08/10

£2.00

 

All the best for this epic journey!

Donation by Uta Frith on 05/08/10

£10.00

+ £2.82 Gift Aid

 

Hope the sun keeps shining for you.

Donation by Duncan Gallie on 05/08/10

£10.00

+ £2.82 Gift Aid

 

Donation by James Hoare on 05/08/10

£20.00

+ £5.64 Gift Aid

 

Best wishes for happy pedalling! This is from two of us - an anthropologist (me) and a classicist turned sociologist (husband).

Donation by Margaret KENNA on 05/08/10

£40.00

+ £11.28 Gift Aid

 

Donation by mark beatson on 05/08/10

£10.00

+ £2.82 Gift Aid

 

Donation by Tim Hayward on 05/08/10

£50.00

+ £14.10 Gift Aid

 

Donation by Taylor C. Sherman on 05/08/10

£20.00

+ £5.64 Gift Aid

 

Donation by christine gledhill on 05/08/10

£10.00

+ £2.82 Gift Aid

 

Donation by Rosemary Connellan on 05/08/10

£10.00

+ £2.82 Gift Aid

 

Desperate measures for desperate times. Wishing you courage and good spirits for every mile.

Donation by Gillian Evans on 05/08/10

£10.00

+ £2.82 Gift Aid

 

Hannah...Vlad told me what you and your dad are doing - sounds really great ! Enjoy!

Donation by Lynn Hastings on 05/08/10

£10.00

 

Go guys, go!

Donation by Vlad the Bad on 05/08/10

£10.00

 

Donation by Alexander Volsky on 05/08/10

£10.00

 

Thank you!

Donation by anna gannon on 04/08/10

 

Thank you for this personal action you are taking for The British Academy - Good luck. All the best, Alison Taysum

Donation by Alison Taysum on 04/08/10

Donation summary

  • * Online donations£3,950.00
  • Offline donations£225.00
  • Text donations£0.00
  • Total raised£4,175.00
  • Gift Aid£959.18

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