Roger Harding's Fundraising Page
Page creator: Roger Harding
Page closes: 25th Jan 2009
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About the charity : Springboard For Children Springboard For Children
If you can't read you are excluded at all levels of education and society. Many children in primary schools today are facing failure and frustration every day because they cannot read and write. Springboard for children offers intensive literacy support to hundreds of children throughout the UK, giving them the basic literacy skills they need for life.
Charity Registration No 1034446
Fundraising target:  £5,000.00
Donations so far:  £ 863.00
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A little while ago Roger Harding threw himself off a tall building!

Well, not quite threw himself! There was a rope. Guy's Hospital Tower is, at 469 feet, one of the tallest abseil buildings in the UK. It's also the tallest hospital building in the world. At thirty three floors up it's higher than CentrePoint at Tottenham Court Road and the "Gherkin."

This was a unique opportunity for Roger to be afraid – be very afraid! Views of the city from the top of the building are, quite spectacular - towering over Tower bridge and dwarfing St Paul's Cathederal..

This was a fundraising stunt on 5th July. The money raised from the sponsored abseil will help Springboard for Children - the charity that helps kids who can't learn because they don't know how to learn. In fact these kids don't know that they don't know how to learn! Such children get left behind in the education system. Springboard helps them "learn how to learn" so that they can be slotted back into their appropriate year group and continue their education with their true peers instead of a younger age group.

Thank you for visiting my fundraising page. You can GIVE MONEY HERE & NOW.
Donating through this site is efficient, fast and totally secure. Springboard For Children will receive your money faster and, if you are a UK taxpayer, an extra 28% in tax will be added to your gift at no cost to you.

I'd like to owe you a debt of gratitude so please sponsor me, Roger Harding, now!

Display Name Date Amount Tax Bonus  Comment
Norman Sinclair-Baines 08/09/2008 £30.00 £8.46 Roger, I have just picked this up as I am holidaying on the other side of the Pond for the summer (back late September) talk soon  
Beader Blunn 27/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 you do know they've got the London Eye now! Excellent work.  
Loretta Quinn 14/07/2008 £30.00 £8.46 Well done Roger! I felt sick just looking at the photo! 
Sandra Goetz 14/07/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Great, Roger! Really inspiring! 
Anne O'Loughlin 14/07/2008 £25.00 £7.05 The things you do for kids... Well done Roger. I don't know how you did that, just looking at the photo terrified me! 
Paulos Berhane 11/07/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Good work, Roger! 
Danae Bird (PS) 08/07/2008 £5.00 £1.41 it's not the falling I'm afraid of....it's the hitting the ground! 
Alex Eve 07/07/2008 £5.00 £1.41 Did you wear a spiderman costume? 
Dasrika 07/07/2008 £20.00 n/a Congratulations!! Hmmm...what will you get up to next?! 
JULIE STILLMAN 07/07/2008 £3.00 £0.85 Yeah, ur mad! 
James and Dom 07/07/2008 £5.00 £1.41 Well done! Hope you didn't hit the ground with a bump! 
Mike Hancock 07/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Well done Roger!  
St John Canfield-Payne 07/07/2008 £20.00 n/a Well done! - Now I KNOW you are mad! 
Warren Berliner 07/07/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Very Well done! 
nick trayford 07/07/2008 £30.00 £8.46 Roger assume you got down ok thanks for the help with the speech!! 
David Lawrence 07/07/2008 £10.00 £2.82 I thought you were NUTS! - now I know!! 
David Diggs 04/07/2008 £10.00 £2.82  
Keith Wilson 02/07/2008 £30.00 £8.46 Somebody's got to do it. 
sonia 01/07/2008 £30.00 n/a wish I could be in london to celebrate your success : - ( ..italian wishes "in bocca al lupo".. ( reply ) "crepi" !!  
Jason Hitchen 30/06/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Good luck. Look forward to seeing the photos. 
Pretima Champaneri-Phillips 28/06/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Now I know you are definitely CRAZY!! Good luck 
Iain Wilson 25/06/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Watch out for open windows, 
Neil Hall 25/06/2008 £5.00 £1.41 Isabelle encouraged me to donate, so here's a small contribution to a big cause. Good luck. 
Simon Robeson 24/06/2008 £20.00 £5.64 stark staring bonkers.... 
Nathan Murphy 24/06/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Enjoy the exposure 
Samuel Charlier 24/06/2008 £10.00 £2.82 I love crazy people 
Chris Burgon 24/06/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Good luck Roger. 
Rupert Saunders 24/06/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Well Done Roger! 
Anna Zimmerman 23/06/2008 £30.00 £8.46 good luck! i'm sure you'll love every stomach churning second....but happy to open the purse on your behalf.  
Andrew Hammond 23/06/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Good luck Roger. Would have given £1,000 if you were going back up too. 
Isabelle Tranquille 23/06/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Impressionant tres cher ami! 
Veasey J F 23/06/2008 £20.00 £5.64 76 m/s terminal velocity, R Harding 7.6 m/per hour. Good luck 
Gordon Cooper 23/06/2008 £30.00 £8.46 careful with that rope Roger! 
Nick Trayford 20/06/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Good Luck! remember it's not the first 497 feet that are a problem it's the last foot!!  
Kathleen Sullivan 20/06/2008 £5.00 £1.41 Geronimoooooooooooo!!!! Hold on tight! 
Lewis Charles-Edwards 20/06/2008 £10.00 £2.82 at least you'll be conveniently close to the hospital! 
Peter Maxwell-Lyte 20/06/2008 £100.00 £28.21 Mind yer shoulder! 
chris marchand 20/06/2008 £10.00 £2.82 make sure the rope is not to long...! 
Roger Milbourn 20/06/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Hmmmm, the last time I did Abseilling I ended up with a skin graft - make sure you wear gloves!! A brave effort. 
Moira McClure 20/06/2008 £10.00 £2.82 What a good cause Roger. Good Luck! 
Julian Bingle 20/06/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Don't let go of that rope Roger! 
Jenny Tolmie 20/06/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Good Luck with the jump, will want to see photographic evidence!! 
Shilla Amin 20/06/2008 £10.00 £2.82 I will be there to cheer you on!! 
Troup 20/06/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Rather you than me. Would happily cheer you on but away that weekend 
Roger Harding self 20/06/2008 £100.00 £28.21 Please be generous 
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*Total donated online: £863.00
Amount raised offline: £0.00
Gift Aid plus supplement: £223.67
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