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Victoria Ward is raising money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity

Participants: Victoria Leyshon, Emma Warren-Gash

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Virgin London Marathon 2011 · 17 April 2011 ·

Sparks raises money to fund pioneering child health research across the UK, helping to find new treatments and cures for children and families who desperately need them.

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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #1c1c1c; line-height: 19px;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Hey Guys!</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">I am running the London Marathon in April 2011 with my friend Emma. We are running in aid of a charity called&nbsp;<span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">SPARKS - the children's medical research charity</strong>.</span>&nbsp;Sparks is a great charity to sponsor as its aim is to help all babies to be born healthy and grow up healthy as they fund research across the whole spectrum of paediatric medicine. Their research and medicine helps to prevent risks associated with premature births such as childhood cancer, arthiritis, meningitis and spina bifida. These are just a few areas where Sparks doctors and scientists are leading the race to save lives.</p> <p>Emma and I have done a lot together over the years. As you can see from the&nbsp;attached photo of&nbsp;us aged five holding hands at a school sports day, we have known eachother for ages. Since then we have acheived many activities together from abseiling down from the top of Twickenham Rugby Stadium as well as running half marathons for charity, helping disabled children to learn to ride and we have even been trekking in Nepal as part of our Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award.</p> <p>Emma's Dad's company, The Original Poster Company Limited, is sponsoring Emma and I and has kindly agreed to match all donations pound for pound up to a minimum of &pound;2,500 each. So please be generous and lets try to make a real difference&nbsp;in the fight to save young precious lives.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Every little helps!!!!</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Thank you, we appreciate it.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Victoria Leyshon</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Donation summary

Total
£1,951.20
+ £335.89 Gift Aid
Online
£1,881.20
Offline
£70.00

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