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<p><span style="color: #000000;">Thanks for taking the time to visit my fundraising page.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">I'm currently training for the Reading Half Marathon - my first ever half marathon, scary stuff! As I prepare for the race, I'm writing a blog about my experience, please feel free to <a href="http://never-thought-i-could-run.blogspot.com/">have a read</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Originally I wasn't going to raise money for charity with this race, but since discovering the great work that the <a href="http://www.iop.org/about/international/development/africa/index.html">IoP is doing in Africa</a>, I changed my mind. I hope you will all support this fantastic work that the Institute of Physics is doing to promote physics in the developing world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000;">IOP for Africa is a campaign to raise the profile and raise funds for IOP’s <a style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.iop.org/about/international/development/index.html">Physics for Development</a> programme. Through the programme, IOP challenges the obstacles to physics education in some of the poorest countries in the world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000;">Through the dissemination of physics, we aim to support local communities towards greater opportunities for the future.</span></p>
<p>To give you an idea of what the money is used for:</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">£20 will provide school stationery for up to 100 pupils<br>£50 will provide a full set of GCSE and A-level books for a school library<br>£100 will provide a basic physics experiments kit<br>£200 will set up an internet connection for an ICT lab for a whole year<br>£500 will provide a one-week residential training course for 30 local teachers<br>£1000 will provide CPD materials to local teachers, by arranging a UK provider to send resources for science or teacher training<br>£2000 will provide an ICT lab with six laptops and an internet connection for a whole year<br>£5000 will provide the full set of practical equipment, including books, stationery and experiments, for an entire school over the course of a year</span></span></p>