Updated on Jun 12th 2010 at 10:57 PM using the JustGiving iPhone app

Done it!!!!! Not fast, not pretty but finishing was the target. I am now the proud posessor of a piece of chunky bling as proof. But more to the point my target of £5000 is nearly reached. Thank you to you all. If do still want to sponsor me the account will be left open until the middle of July.

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I did it! Very slow, 5:42:51, but it did include a wait for the loo of 15 min and my hips gave out ( poor old dear!). I was beated by virtually everyone I knew taking part but I did beat Lorraine Kelly!

More importantly you have donated between you enough for 40 days of hospice care for one person . So THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

Thank you also to my 17 year old Jamie who's tenner has put the amount raised to over £4000! And to Euan and Helena who have each sponsored me one month's pocket money!

Thank you to Risebridge Sport and Health Club for their sponsorship!

As many of you will know,  I will be 50 on 24th April 2010. I wanted to 'celebrate ' by seeing how much money I could raise for Help the Hospices. I knew I had to do a big challenge to achieve the £100 per annum that I have been alive, ie £5000, so the fact that the London Marathon is the day after my birthday on 25th April seemed apposit. I would have prefered it the day before, so the champagne will have to wait a day,  but there we are!

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Hospices provide palliative care for people who have life limiting illnesses beit cancer or HIV or any other such illnesses. Unfortunately the Government funds only, on average, 30% of the cost for adults' hospices and 15% for childrens'. The rest must be made up from donations and fundraising. Having seen the care provided and having had a number of friends cared for in our local hospice ' The Hospice in the Weald' I knew this was a charity I wanted to support. I also wanted to be involved in a health related charity as, although neither he nor my Mum, Iris, are still alive my Dad, Harold, was a Doctor and passionate about the care of his patients.

eg of how donated money could be used

£115 will provide a days nursing for one person

£117 would pay for a hospice to provide a home care visit

£25 two weeks of materials for art therapy classes

£30 for an hour in a spa pool for a child

and so it goes on.......

Please sponsor me as I would like to make a difference through my marathon.

 

Please note: Help the Hospices incure costs on my behalf so that I may run the marathon. I will cover those costs so any money donated by you will go only to the charity and will help people receiving hospice care.

To see how the fundraising is doing I am giving you each ownership or part ownership of each of my years!!! Anne, as my mother gets year 1(!)

Year                                                                                      Year

1     Anne Symons; Nigel Prentis                                        2   Mike and Juliette Moody

3     Roger and Mary; Fiona Morgan ,Niki Knox              4    The Heapeys

       Lucy, Fraser and the kids; Jill and Brad Ward

5      My very generous anonomous donor                       6  My very generous anonymous donor

7       My very generous anonymous donor                      8  Freddie and Cate Graham-Watson

9     Freddie and Cate Graham-Watson                            10  Yvonne Drummond, Lynn Curtis-Woodcock: 

                                                                                                        Roger and Isabelle Kidney,

                                                                                                         Mike Bull, The Prestons

11 Brian and Margaret Prentis                                            12 Caroline and Neil Hornsby, Tim Simpson

                                                                                                       Debbie, Poppy, Daisy and Oscar Muggeridge

                                                                                                        Louise Poole

 13   Janet Balling, The Prentis family change jar             14 Angela Daly The Dodds The Steeles The Moncrieffs

         Spice

15   Mike Halls( if I make it!)                                                16 Annabel Ninham, The Oggies!

17   Dave Bramwell                                                               18 Rosemary Ward, The Wilson Family

                                                                                                        The Christophersons , The Ridges

19  Vernacular Homes, The Hopkissons                          20 Richard Morley

21    Ali Ferris, Jo Campbell, The Walden-Smiths          22 Anna Rasmussen, Suzanne Urie

                                                                                                        Chris Newport

23     Margaret Prentis                                                            24    Risebridge Health and Sport Club

25    Risebridge Health and Sport Club                             26   Michael Balling; Angela Simmonds

                                                                                                          Liz and Rob Steggle, Maria Mileham,

                                                                                                           Sally Ahlers, Anon

27    Caroline, Stuart Liiy and Alice Fraser                           28  Ralph and Georgie Cox, Elizabeth Bramwell

           Beverley  and Phil Rayner and the crew 

        Paul Julie Adam and Lucy Gaston                                                                      

29  Ann Borrowman                                                               30  Liz Mark Adam and Guy Taylor, Sarah house

       Melissa Johnny Max and Issy Prentis                                Wendy Russell, Clare Haythornthwaite

                                                                                                           Michelle Douchkov, Angela Collins

31  Proceeds of coffee morning                                            32 Joanne Grieff, Bernie Lock

33   Jonathan Kennaugh, Bill and Angela Jones                34 Linda Pope ( if I do it!) The Dall'Occos

         Caroline Braybrook                                                                               

35  Richard Plackett                                                               36  Richard Plackett

37 My lovely husband Mike!                                                 38  My lovely husband, Mike!

39  Sandy, Andrew, Bas,Sam and Milo Dooley                  40  Jamie!!!, Euan!!! Tom, Sophie, Cuthbert, Columbine

       Proceeds of Euan's bunk beds                                               Hereward, Claire Gaertner Helena!!!

41   Sue Fuller,  Marg and Alan Kennaugh                       42 Kitty Walker;Anita Martin; The baughhursts

        The Dunns, Allan Greenhill                                                Anne Symons friends from church

                                                                                                          Claire Haythornethwaite ( again!)The Sawyers

43   Proceeds of collection boxes in Goudhurst                44  The Clews, Penny Smith,THe Frankes Pauline Caney

45    Jag Bains, Vicky Ingle   Stuart Reeve                        46  Al Rae

47     Claire Bell, THe Travises  ,The  Barnets                 48  The Ewbanks, Henrietta Leckie, Beverley Streek

49       Ali, Tim, Feddie and Romilly Doust, The Sindens50!!!   The whip round at my surprise birthday dinner!

                                                       Target reached 8/5/10!!!

51 Helen Turner                                                                        52Sara Corrie, The Sawyers cake sale

53 Cake sale and car boot sale                                               54  car boot sale