Royston Wood is fundraising for St Luke's Hospice Plymouth

JOGLE in 6

JOGLE for St Lukes

on 04/07/2009

900 miles in 6 days

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Team members:

Me and my bike

Raising money for

St Luke's Hospice Plymouth

Charity Registration No. 280681

When faced with the reality of coping with life-limiting illness, we believe that all patients should be entitled to the very best care available. St Luke´s has been providing specialist palliative medical and nursing care, free of charge, to patients from Plymouth, South West Devon and East Cornwall for more than twenty-five years.

A registered charity, we are passionate about offering our patients dignity and choice at a time in their lives when they may feel they have none. Our vision is to provide the best end of life care to all patients wherever their `preferred place of care´ might be - Hospice, Hospital or Home.

The St Luke´s network of care stretches far beyond the walls of the Hospice inpatient unit at Turnchapel, Plymouth reaching out to more than 2,000 patients each year. Alongside the specialist medical and nursing care, patients are also offered practical, financial, emotional and spiritual support.

Government funding covers less than 30% of the cost of caring for inpatients. We therefore have to raise at least £3.5 million from the local community every year so the fundraising never stops! That is why your donation and support is so important.

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Royston Wood

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Raised: 59%

Target: £2,000.00
Raised so far: £1,188.00

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My story

This July I will be cycling 900 miles from John O’Groats to Lands End in 6 days. It will be the toughest physical challenge of my life, but worth it because in doing the ride, with your support, I will be raising vital funds for St Luke’s Hospice.

When initially contemplating my challenge (and being a sad individual) I drew up a pros and cons list:

Reasons not to do the ride

1. I’m not fit enough
2. I’m carrying too much weight
3. It will be an enormous challenge
4. I’ll be stuck on a bike with nothing to do but pedal all day
5. I’ll be away from my young family for a week

Reasons to do the ride

So, on balance, the pros won with, “I’ll be raising money for St Luke’s”.

St Luke’s is a local charity caring for more than 2,000 patients with life limiting or terminal illnesses each year through the Hospice or their Community Palliative Care Team who care for patients in their own home.

As well as treating their patients’ medical needs St Luke’s strive to ensure they are supported emotionally and spiritually as well. Their aim is to enable their patients to make the very best out of the life they have to live. It is this breadth of care that makes St Luke’s so very unique and vital to its patients.

The running costs for the Hospice are more than £5m per year.

Unfortunately Government funding provides less than 30% of that figure so each year St. Luke’s has to raise £3.5m from the local community to carry on providing its vital services.

So here’s the deal:

Train: 5,000 miles from 1st Jan to ride
Approx 100,000m (62miles) of vertical climbing (or 11 x from sea

            level to the summit of Everest)
Ride:    150 miles per day for 6 days
            13-15 hours on the road each day
            Cram down 48,000 calories
You

Sponsor me (please)

So if you have a spare £3.5m knocking around I would be most grateful for your sponsorship.

However, appreciating that economic pressures are affecting everyone’s disposable funds, I expect that I might have to find more than one sponsor. In fact I know that St Luke’s will appreciate any sum you can offer.

Thank you for your support.

Roy

	Well done ! Geat News and Money for St Lukes Donation by Helen West of West Financial Man Co Ltd 21/09/09	£50.00
	Well done Roy Donation by Bill Barnes 14/07/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Well done Donation by Syd 12/07/09	£5.00
	Well done brother Donation by tom wood 11/07/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Marvellous - well done Roy! Donation by Myles Blewett 10/07/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	A Fantastic achievement for such a worthy charity. Well Done Roy x Donation by Sharon Goodwin 09/07/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Great idea, hope all goes well Donation by Jo and Jonathan Turns 07/07/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good luck, Roy. Tony and I will be plotting your progress with interest! Donation by Janise Blewett 05/07/09	£20.00
	Good luck Roy, what a commitment, fantastic! Donation by Jon Keeping 05/07/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Best wishes from the Property Search Group Donation by martin gill 03/07/09	£25.00
	Go Roy Go. Block out the pain.......... Donation by Tom Langrishe 02/07/09	£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid
	Wishing you all the very best on your epic bike ride! Donation by JANITA DUCKETT 02/07/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good Luck Roy Woody Donation by Martin Wood 30/06/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good Luck Roy will be thinking of you love Mum Donation by Betty Wood 30/06/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Good Luck Donation by Paul Stapleton 26/06/09	£50.00
	Good luck Donation by Giles Frampton 24/06/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Donation by Ian Maclean 24/06/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Gard & Co is proud to support St Lukes Hospice and wish Roy all the very best with his challenge Donation by GARD & CO 08/06/09	£250.00

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* Total raised online:	£585.00
Offline donations:	£603.00
Gift Aid plus supplement:	£52.18

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