<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: small;">As you may know, every year Wargrave hosts a &ldquo;non-stop-24-hour&rdquo; charity event: &ldquo;The Dakar Challenge&rdquo;. The aim is that eventually over a number of years Wargrave House will row across the sea and cycle across the land (virtually) to reach Dakar, Senegal. After last year&rsquo;s efforts we are making great strides through Africa, having reached Morocco several years back we have nearly reached the border with Western Sahara. In past years this event has been extremely successful, raising money for charities such as Cancer Research and Child Aid in Africa. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: small;">This year the event is being held from 17:00 on Saturday 11 February to 17:00 on Sunday 12 February, without stopping! For this to occur each member of Wargrave will partake in a minimum of one row and cycle &ndash; both consisting each of 10 minutes, this will happen in a relay form style throughout the night.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: #333333; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: small;">This year Wargrave House shall be fundraising for a very worthy charity. &lsquo;Children on the Edge&rsquo;. A former housemaster of Pennell, Ewan Clark became heavily involved in this charity and now plays a key role in its success. His ultimate goal is to support each child deprived of their rights. Since the charity was first established they have gone from strength to strength, by setting up safe play and education centres in post conflict East Timor and Indonesia after its devastating tsunami, to preventing sex trafficking in Moldova, to working with children fleeing ethnic cleansing in Burma. They help children with their emotional and educational needs, helping tackle and prevent the effects of disaster, conflict, loss and poverty.&nbsp;They help over 5,000 children affected by such issues every day, across 15 projects, 10 countries and three continents.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: #333333; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: small;">For more information, please visit: www.childrenontheedge.org<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: small;">We ask for you to sponsor generously as we are looking to collect a record breaking total to send to this year&rsquo;s choice of charities and to help transform the lives of dozens of people across the world.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yours faithfully,</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alex Jaeggi, Dom York, Oliver Morgan and Thomas Houchin</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Co-ordinators of the Dakar Challenge 2012)</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>