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<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">WE DID IT!!!</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">The fastest of us completed the challenge in 23 hours, 9 minutes (and 23 seconds if its necessary to be quite so exact!) but sadly with two retirements due to injury. However with the whole team working well together we all made it safely to (the pub in) Llanberis, with an impressive set of mountain stats. achieved. </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #000000;">With an even more</span><span style="color: #000000;"> impressive donations total we would like to say a huge thankyou to all who support us</span><span style="color: #000000;">!</span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">We will be taking on the highest peaks in each part of Great Britain, (Ben Nevis at 1344m, Sca Fell Pike at 978m and Snowdon 1085m) over a 24 hour period between 23rd and 24th July 2011 on behalf of The Paddy Lowden Fund with the County Durham Community Foundation. </span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">We aim to develop a long term investment fund to ensure the continuing availability of annual grants aimed at supporting issues that Paddy particularly cared about. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Our aims are modest. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Last year, CDCF used grant money from the Paddy Lowden (grassroots) Fund to support mother and child play sessions at a local prison <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">where children enjoy one-to-one contact with their parent in a relaxed, child-friendly, creative environment, with the aim of helping to maintain relationships and to try to lessen the stigma for the children of having a parent in prison</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">We will also be providing an opportunity for practical support to families dealing with cancer. </span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">We are sure that you will share our belief in the importance of the ‘’small act of kindness’ and the value of having a long term fund from which it may be achieved year on year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For us, we could think of no better way of capturing the ‘essence of Paddy’ and all that she stood for. For you, we hope the fund simply provides you with an opportunity to make that ‘small act of kindness’ which will ultimately bring a smile to the face of someone, somewhere in County Durham, who could really do with your help.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #000000;">
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