I’m always awe-inspired by people who do crazy things to raise money. From bungee jumping to tightrope walking, I never quite understood the bravery of the fearless few … that is, until I found myself 12,000 ft up in the air, about to jump out of a plane!
In that good old spirit of leading by example, I kicked off our charity fundraising drive a few weeks ago with a terrifying sky dive.
Peter Haskall - he seemed to enjoy the experience!
I was lucky to have George Collins, Charlie Collins, Caroline Webb and Peter Haskell join me and I commend their calm and bravery.
It was one heck of an experience (probably not one soon to be repeated, but unmissable nonetheless) and it got me thinking about how brilliantly committed our supporters are.
Another brave soul is photographer Julien Buckley, who is currently cycling solo 2,800 miles from UK to Nordkapp. He is riding up to 100 miles a day, with just audio books and the odd stray reindeer for company. With the help of his worthy UK-based assistant Tom Phillips, Julien has been keeping us updated of his daily progress. Follow his adventures and incredibly beautiful photography on his blog http://www.allterrainphotos.co.uk
I personally promise to give him a rub down when he gets to the end of his mammoth six week journey! This is a huge undertaking to raise money for Child’s i Foundation and I urge our supporters to please sponsor his efforts on his Justgiving page: http://www.justgiving.com/endsoftheearth/
Another brilliant fundraising effort was that of Paul Barham, who over the weekend completed the Iron Man triathlon swimming 3.8 km’s, cycling 180 km’s and running 42.2km’s. He did it in under 12 hours (well 11:57:54). He is in fact a superhero and even more so because he has raised so far £830. Please display your astonishment here: http://www.justgiving.com/paulbarham
Paul Barham
We¹ve got lots more fundraising ideas in the pipeline, including an abseil, and hopefully a trek to Kilimanjaro. Do you have any ideas of crazy fundraising events you could organise? Or fancy getting fit and raising cash and doing something you would never do in a million years for the cause? Please get in touch with Wendy:
our wonderful events programme manager wendy@chldsifoundation.org
