Hello, thankyou so much for taking the time to visit my charity page. 

We did it!!!!!!!!!!  WOW what an experience.  Myself, Kevin, Rupert and Simon as a team have raised over 8 thousand pounds and feel very proud. 

I have to say it was tougher than I thought, I thought I was physcially prepared for it.  The road running/on the flat running was fine but the hill climbs absolutely  beat me many times and once you'd done one task you had to go straight into another (no feet up cup of tea moments!) 

I ache in places I didn't know I had and I have not laughed so much for a long time.  We worked hard, we worked really well as a team and "looked out" for each other.  In total the 17 teams raised 69 thousand pounds which is fantastic.  The Bovis Team achieved 3rd place overall and in each of the 3 day challenges we achieved either 2nd or 3rd so we are pleased with our hard work and effort.  I'm certainly up for it for next year!!!!  Thankyou to all my friends and family and colleagues that supported me and to my husband in particular and my two children for being so good at "missing" their mum and wife for the weekend.

If you'd still like to donate then please do as we have another month before we put our final pledge in!

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I have committed to be part of a team to raise money for Habitat for Humanity.  The focus is on Haiti this year. 

There is now a few days to go and I have exceeded my target!!!  Thankyou as its all friends and family and I have been doing some public speaking in the evenings and the companies have recognised me by donating to this challenge.  A particular thankyou to BAE systems a wonderful bunch of individuals all up for the Customer Experience challenge!.  

Thankyou to all my friends and family for donating because you have been so generous.  If you haven't donated yet and are thinking about it please do on Friday morning I need to leave home with a "pledge" that commits me to what I am going to raise.  You know me, every bit counts and I just want to raise as much as possible.  If you don't want to raise online then email me, text me, call me and give your pledge so I can add it to the total XXXXX

What am I doing ...........Myself and my 3 Bovis colleagues are spending a weekend; two days and two night in the Peak District where we will be living and sleeping in a shelter we have had to build ourselves with recycled materials (I may work for a house builder but I am no builder!!!!), we will undertake mental and physical team challenges with a 1000m of hill ascent and 20 miles of trekking.  Look at the pictures on this web and here's also a link to last years ... with pikkies and videos . 

Why .............Habitat for Humanity is a charity with the sole aim of ridding the world of poverty housing.  As part of this aim it is dedicated to long term reconstruction and regeneration after natural disasters have struck - earthquakes, tsunami to mention a couple of recognisable ones.  This year the focus is on Haiti however this charity is still helping rebuild lives and homes after the South East Asia tsunami which was 3 and a half years ago.  When disaster strikes communites are thrown into trauma Haiti is still fresh in our minds now but once the TV cameras are gone and the worlds attention moves on to something else, what happens then? 

This is the time that determines if the survivors will live in poverty for years to come or will be able to rebuild their lives. Typically they have now lost everything … their home, their belongings, their livelihood and even their family and friends. They are now living in makeshift shelters dependent on aid just to survive.

Habitat for Humanity is in for the long haul and SO AM I !!!!!!!!!!

http://www.habitatforhumanity.org.uk/hopehome.htm

I have already started training, running (and walking with Mia in her pushchair sometimes!!) 3/4 times a week for the last 3 months (slipped a bit in the last month I must admit!!) , coz I don't want to be the unfit one that lets my team down! We want to raise over 6.7k (to beat last years team!), each of us is committed to doing our bit to smash our target.  .

I have set up this website to make it easy for my friends and family and colleagues to donate. 

Donating through this site is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to sponsor me: Habitat for Humanity 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. 

thankyou so much if you can donate even a little something, it all adds up and I'd like to make a positive difference to all those families suffering loss after any disaster.

thankyou very much

best wishes

sarah

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Our Bovis Homes team fundraising code is 10CREVHCGB-006