The Caron Keating Foundation gives one-off grants to small charities and support groups who assist individuals in their fight against the distressing symptoms of cancer. In turn this helps the families, friends and carers whose lives also become affected with the ripples from this devastating disease
Next year on January 31st a group of completely and utterly bonkers
rugby girls, plus some of their friends and family, are taking part in
the world's hardest, most challenging and terrifying beyond belief
assault course, Toughguy.
Why, why I hear you cry? Stop the
madness at once, sit down, chillax and stuff your face with more
Quality Street than is safely recommended by government health
officials.
But no, we are not going to be doing that this
Christmas. We are going to be training hard, in whatever weather this
country can throw at us, so we can give a little something back the
world.
This is the time of year when you see all of those
television adverts, pleading with you to offer up your hard earned Xmas
dollars in aid of some charity or another. And whilst you may be
touched by their appeal in the millisecond it takes you to change the
channel, you mentally turn into Ebenezer Scrooge.
The Tough
girls however, think we have a more convincing way of getting you to
part with your money. We are going to be electrocuted, scorched by
flame and partially drowned in sub zero temperature water, all to get
you to part with some dough.
We aren’t going to guilt trip you
into giving money by showing you pictures of those less fortunate than
you, because we know that you desensitised humbugs wont buy it. What we
are going to do is shame you into giving money because you yourself
haven’t got the balls to drag yourself through an icy river in deepest
darkest winter with the rest of us.
So blow the cobwebs out of
your purses and donate. We would really,
really appreciate it, as this day of hell needs more of a purpose than
simply proving that we are all idiots for entering.