I run 10K races quite regularly, I have been approached by a friend asking me to join her in the World AIDS Day Red Run www.redrun.org.uk/. This November 26th to help our Local Charity Wandsworth Oasis.

Please help me to raise money for this Charity and the great job they do in Our community.

Love Ingrid.

See below details from the Charity

Wandsworth Oasis

A response to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic

Wandsworth Oasis was set up in the mid 1980s as a local response to the global AIDS epidemic. The founders were a group of gay men who were losing friends to the disease and saw them spending their last days without support and subject to a horrible amount of stigma as a result of a lack of knowledge and understanding about how the virus was transmitted. It was at a time when the general public genuinely believed AIDS could be contracted by shaking hands. Princess Diana achieved a lot towards breaking down this myth and others.

The original idea was to provide an oasis of support to people living with (and dying of) AIDS, particularly when they had no one else to turn to. We are eternally grateful to the Salvation Army in Wandsworth for their long term and unfailing support at a time when many other people turned their backs on this vulnerable group of people. They offered us support in many ways; particularly in their Wandsworth Hall, by providing drop-in facilities for us work confidentially and non-judgmentally with people with AIDS from the area. We funded this work through a charity shop in Battersea Park Road, London – which is still there today – no longer the sole charity shop, but one in a small family of seven.