Emily Waller is fundraising for Children's Hospice South West

Lucy, Em, Nay & Sarah's Channel Swim (L.E.N.S. Team!)

Truro Girls' Channel Swim

on 11/09/2009

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Team members:

Sarah Barlow, Lucy Bunt, Naomi Munro-Lott, Emily Waller

Raising money for

Children's Hospice South West

Charity Registration No. 1003314

At Children’s Hospice South West we help and support children and their families who are living with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and we are the only organisation in the South West to provide vital hospice care to these families. Some families come to us for palliative care, some for emergency care and many for planned respite and a rare opportunity for a break away. But there’s more to it than that. We provide a loving and caring place for every member of the families who stay with us. A place where everyone can begin to forget their worries for a while, be a family again and find expert help and support in facing an uncertain future.

Our services are free to the families who need us because we believe that nothing should get in the way of very sick children receiving the very best care. So, with little government funding, we rely on the generosity of our supporters to deliver our promise to ‘make the most of short and precious lives’.

Children’s Hospice South West has two purpose-built hospices in the South West. Little Bridge House in North Devon and Charlton Farm in North Somerset. A third special home from home for life-limited children in Cornwall and Plymouth, is due to open in 2011 called Little Harbour.

To find out more please visit www.chsw.org.uk or call 01271 325270

Page owner

Emily Waller

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Raised: 216%

Target: £6,000.00
Raised so far: £12,984.51

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My story

W E D I D I T ! ! !

On Thursday, 24th September at 1:58 pm we set off from Dover. 15 hours and 35 minutes later, at 5:33 am, Sarah stood up on a beach off of Cap Griz Nez in France. Mode of travel: swimming!

A MASSIVE, MASSIVE THANK YOU TO ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE WHO HAS SHOWN THEIR SUPPORT! We really couldn't have done it without the backing of so many people. We are agreed on the fact that the swim was the hardest thing we've done in our lives but WE MADE IT and it would have impossible without the support of our friends and family.

If you want to know the gritty details of the lead up to swim and of course the crossing itself, please check out our blog which says pretty much everything you need to know: http://trurogirlschannelswim.blogspot.com/

Or for a blast from the past (a news article from last December) you can see the video of us on BBC Spotlight on http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/7785255.stm

We'd like to thank Follet Stock for giving us their support (especially at the Royal Cornwall Show) and the amazing donations of both Abbey Systems and the Padstow Masonic Lodge are hugely appreciated. Equally worthy of thanks are all those who donated their amazing prizes for the raffle at our recent charity meal, which was really successful.

Thank you so much one more time to everyone who gave their support - it has been absolutely fantastic motivation!

However: our quest is not over! Please sponsor us if you haven't yet (or even sponsor us again, if you fancy it!); the swim is over but we still want to keep fundraising for Precious Lives; this page will close in December but you can still donate until then.

T H A N K Y O U !

Lucy, Em, Nay and Sarah xxx

-LENS Team! (Our coach is called Len and all the first letters of our names just happen to spell LENS... it must be fate)

	Passing a donation from the Kunzlers Donation by Brian Lott 29/11/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Donation by Joel Scott-Halkes 02/11/09	£25.00
	Congrats to Dr Sue Lowrey's god-daughter from David and Stephanie Bailey Donation by Stephanie and David 08/10/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Congratulations on your fine achievement! Well done to you all. Donation by Tim and Diana Prestwich 05/10/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Fantastic achievement, well done! Donation by Roberson/Hebburn family 03/10/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	What a fantastic achievement! You are super stars delux! Ali-G and Jilly-G Donation by Alan Goodwin 28/09/09	£85.00
	You are absolute stars, all four of you! So proud we could pop! Noisy & Gabby Hobbs(Jilly's Mom and Dad) Donation by Alan Goodwin 28/09/09	£154.00
	Fantastic, inspiring effort. Well done! Donation by The Croft family 28/09/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	WOW! What an amazing effort - fantastic! Donation by Pip Graham George and Will Hooper 26/09/09	£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid
	Well done to you all! What an achievement in so many ways. Donation by Brian and Marion Lott (Grandpa and Nanny) 25/09/09	£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid
	Quite simply amazing. Well done to you all xx Donation by Jayne Grigg 25/09/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Huge Well Done for your efforts, fantastic! Donation by Phil Trevail, & Milly, Jack & Alice 25/09/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	I think you're swimming at this very moment as I write this! Well done - a brilliant effort for the hospice. Donation by Simon and Penny Price 24/09/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Naomi - Wishing you all lots of luck Emma, Elena, Ollie & Will Donation by Emma Symes 22/09/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Naomi - your Mum has told me what you are doing - can I wish you the best of luck and a happy and safe swim! Donation by Zoe Mogridge 21/09/09
	We think you look far more gorgeous than David Walliams, even with the goose grease! We hope that you're able to enjoy it - as Dory says ' just keep swimming, swimming, swimming...' Donation by With our love Philip, Susan, TOM&B XXxxxx 20/09/09	£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid
	Good luck - its a long way! Fiona Price (Horsted Keynes) Donation by Fiona Price 20/09/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Donation by Helen Townsend 17/09/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Think you're amazing doing this-well done to you all-go for it!! Donation by The Naylors 14/09/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Good luck Emily, all the best. Donation by The Fergies 13/09/09	£70.00 + £19.74 Gift Aid
	Good luck ! Donation by Robin Fleet 10/09/09	£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid
	You're all very brave and adventurous. (Grandpa's pool was too cold for me!) Hope it's a life long memory. Love Sarah, Malcolm, Ellie and Nick. Donation by Sarah Park 10/09/09	£40.00 + £11.28 Gift Aid
	Donation by John Harris 10/09/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good luck to you all. Great cause! Donation by Gillian and Duncan Barnard 10/09/09	£50.00
	Nay, Sarah and friends Best of luck with your channel swim. Love from The Danckwerts Donation by Belinda Danckwerts 10/09/09	£20.00
	Donation by Anonymous 09/09/09	£100.00
	Donation by SUE Lowrey 06/09/09	£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid
	Good luck to you all and well done Donation by James and Hilary Nicholson 05/09/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Ems and Girls all the best might see you before the off.... by the way you are nuts!!!!!!! Donation by Darren & Amy Raggett 03/09/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Congratulations to Naomi and all the girls and the very best of luck. Donation by Norma and David Frampton 02/09/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

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* Total raised online:	£3,661.00
Offline donations:	£9,323.51
Gift Aid plus supplement:	£599.08

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