Challenge Yourself.
Challenge Your Mates. 

Together we can contribute to AGE UK Bedfordshire's Emergency Covid-19 Appeal to raise £50,000 to help local older people during this pandemic. 

• DONATE £5
• Join the Strava Club called 'Lockdown Pit Run Challenge' 
• RUN the course and record on Strava
• CHALLENGE 5 LOCAL friends to enter

Want to beat your time? Want to knock your mate down a few places on the leaderboard? Pay another £5 and have another go.

RULES:

1. Only people who live locally to Harrold may participate i.e. those who live near enough to walk, cycle or run to Harrold.
2. Race to be run on foot. 
3. Please observe social distancing rules.  
4. Entrants need to join the Strava Club 'Lockdown Pit Run Challenge' to allow us to filter results and display an accurate segment leaderboard. 
5. All entries to be recorded on Strava in order to feature on the segment leaderboard.
6. If you want to enter more than once, simply donate more than once :)

HOW YOUR DONATION CAN HELP AGE UK BEDFORDSHIRE: 

• £20 would buy an emergency COVID survival box containing toilet roll, soap, hand gel, tea, coffee, soup flask, and other essential items.

• £10 pays for a week’s supply of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for one of our Home Support and Care Workers.  As we are a charity we do not fit the criteria to have PPE supplied Free of Charge. We are spending thousands of pounds to ensure our team of over 100 workers have protective equipment when they visit over 1000 older people in their homes. Please help us to keep them all safe and healthy.

• £5 per week will pay for one of our telephone befrienders to make calls to around 20 people who are scared, lonely and isolated. We are experiencing high increases in referrals to our Telephone Friendship Network during COVID-19. We turn no one away but the costs of telephone calls is rising. Help us to talk to older people who are stuck in their homes, worried about COVID-19 with no one to talk to or share their thoughts. Our befrienders are a calm and listening ear to help take some of the worry and stress out of older peoples lives.           

• £20 will enable us to train new volunteers coming on board to help older people with their shopping, by giving them informaiton and procedures for safe money handling for customers, health and safety, specific COVID-19 training on PPE and processes to keep everyone safe. This amount will pay for all the necessary documents and paperwork required plus an initial supply of the PPE required.

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving - they'll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they'll send your money directly to the charity. So it's the most efficient way to donate - saving time and cutting costs for the charity.