Jog on to Kidney Cancer Half Marathon
1 October 2011
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Our first ever “Jog On” event will take place over a 12.6 mile route through wonderful Suffolk countryside surrounding the villages of Withersfield, Great Thurlow and Carlton.

A 9:00 start on Saturday 1st October will see you already wearing your James Whale T-shirt, and ready to jog or walk the route that starts and finishes at the White Horse pub, Hollow Hill, Withersfield, CB9 7SH. Marshalls will be stragetically placed along the route to ensure your safety, and once at the finish you can relax with some tasty and very well earned refreshments.

Sponsorship forms, route, registration form and the all important T&Cs are available to download. Training plans are also included for you and these can be found at the end of the route document. Cheques for the £15 registration fee should be made payable to James Whale Fund for Kidney Cancer.

A poster is available to download and print, so please feel free to publicise both the event and your involvement. Why not take one into your work or any other convienent place and help encourage friends and family to join in!

An event such as this can only be organised with the help of local supporters, and a great deal of thanks goes to the White Horse for agreeing to host the Jog On. A big thank you also goes out to Dilip Visana at the nearby Kedington Stores for supplying the bottled water.

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During those 4 years, Ade was totally committed to raising as much money as we could for the James Whale Fund for Kidney Cancer, and as you will have seen from this website, we have raised lots of money and had loads of fun doing it! New Wellesbourne Blooms Trailer

Our big challenge for 2011 was the ‘Walk for A. Cure’. The idea was initiated by my brother, Andy, and wholeheartedly supported by Ade, who was planning to join Andy & I on as much of the walk as his health would permit him. Unfortunately, this was not to be.

Ade was a proud, strong, determined man with such a positive attitude to life and who was a major inspiration to everyone he met, including myself. This is why Andy & I still plan to take on this challenge in Ade’s memory, and are determined to smash the £10,000 target set for fund raising.

The walk will commence on Saturday the 27th August, from Gas Street Basin in Birmingham, and will involve walking 144.5 miles along the Grand Union Canal to finish on Saturday 3rd September in Little Venice, London. The route is as follows:

27th August Gas Street Basin to Rowington (19 miles)
28th August Rowington to Napton (20 miles)
29th August Napton to Weedon (18 miles)
30th August Weedon to Stoke Bruene (18.5 miles)
31st August Stoke Bruene to Fenny Stratford (15 miles)
1st Sept Fenny Stratford to Rickmansworth (18 miles)
2nd Sept Rickmansworth to Hayes (19 miles)
3rd Sept Hayes to Little Venice (17 miles)
You can help us to achieve our target in two different ways:

◦Ask friends and family to sponsor you and walk some or all of the route with us Walk for A. Cure Sponsor Form
◦Make your donation on our JustGiving page
Please let us know if you are intending to take part, and which part of the route you will be walking.

We would love as many of you to join us as possible to walk in Ade’s memory. Lets make him proud of us, and keep his legacy going by not only achieving but exceeding this target. He was such a big part of so many people’s lives, so with all your help, this can, and will be done!

Thank you

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Small Charity Week kicks off this morning as we take to the street with an audacious campaign to get everyone behind the small charity sector. The I Love Small Charities Pledge is an opportunity for anyone, wherever they are, to sign up to find out more about small charities and how they can help our sector to thrive.

We want people everywhere to pledge to do something to help out a small charity between now and Small Charity Week 2012 (yes, we’re planning it already!). Some people may donate their time or talents, others may donate funds. Some people may want to help out on an ongoing basis, others as a one-off. Some people want to support a specific cause, others a charity near where they live. Whatever the motivation, the I Love Small Charities Pledge is all about getting the information that will make it easy to support a small charity.

Once someone signs up to the pledge they will receive regular emails showcasing small charities and offering advice on how a volunteer or donor can make a meaningful impact on an organisation.
In London the pledge will be taking to the streets to sign up the public and garner some attention for Small Charity Week. In the evening some of our VIP friends will be signing the pledge – keep an eye on the website www.smallcharityweek.com for the latest updates.

Sign the Pledge

Anyone can sign the pledge by visiting www.smallcharityweek.com/pledge . This is a chance for us to promote the whole sector, so please add it to your Facebook page, tweet about it or tell whoever you can.

Be Part of It

As well as the events taking place throughout the week, you can get involved in Small Charity Week online. You can tweet about Small Charity Week using the hashtag #scweek11. Send pictures of your work or Small Charity Week activities to photos@smallcharityweek.com.

Small Charity Week is your week so make the most of it!

A Massive Thanks!

Small Charity Week wouldn’t be possible without the support of our amazing partners at the Charity Technology Trust (CTT). CTT connects the third sector with technology. Since 2001, they have been bridging the gap between the third sector and technology partners to help organisations improve their effectiveness. The CTXchange programme has enabled thousands of charities to work far more effectively using donated technology – speeding up communications, ensuring compatibility between equipment, and protecting systems. They also enable third sector organisations to share a range of finance, communications and campaigning services.

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Whilst we are all taking it easy over the May Bank Holiday weekend, Ann-Marie Lavery and friends will be raising money for the James Whale Fund by cycling coast to coast and back again.

Ann-Marie is raising money through her Just Giving page in memory of her husband David Beecroft who lost his battle with kidney cancer last year. In her own words she says –  ”Please help if you can, however small of a donation, every penny counts. Please tell your friends about my page. This is a journey for me to give back and make a difference, I can only do this with your help. Thank you”

Visit www.justgiving.com/ann-marie-lavery to help.

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Hello,  First of all thank you once again to all of you who have signed up the Arch To Arc. With over 30 riders for this year’s event entries are now closed. So we have the team and we’re all raring to go! Your Training We hope you’re fully stuck into your training schedule. If not – don’t worry, you still have a good amount of time to feel fully prepared for the event by following the 14 week plan on our web site. For more information click on this link.  The weather’s been great recently so let’s hope it keeps up so we all have no excuses! Your Fundraising Most of you will be well on your way to your personal £1000 target and money is now starting to come into the charity, so thank you for your efforts so far, lets keep it going! What you need to know We’ll be setting off from London at 8am on the 23rd June so you need to make sure you’ve made arrangements to be at Speaker’s Corner (next to Marble Arch) by 7:30am at the latest. We’ll take care of the rest! Ferries, Hotels and rail tickets will be taken care of and food will be provided along the way, breakfast, snacks, drinks, lunch and evening meals.  The only meal we ask you to pay for is your breakfast on the ferry over to Boulogne because we have a very early start on the Friday morning and there wont be time to get breakfast at the hotel before hand (The ferry does a great cooked breakfast!!). We’ll give you the exact times for the rail trip back to London in the coming weeks once we have the confirmations from everyone (see below), however to help you we anticipate arriving in Paris around 2pm. What we need from you Here’s a list of things you need to let us know NOW so we can deal with the final fine details: How do you want to get your bike back?  Click on this link to see the 3 options we have on offer. If you are cycling with a partner or friend then please let us know who you want to share a room with for our overnight stays along the way. If you are cycling on your own, dont worry we’ll sort it for you. What is your shirt size (s, m, l, xl)?  We want to provide everyone with a James Whale Fund cycling shirt as a momento of your efforts and for photo opportunities to promote the fund. Any special dietary requirements you may have? If you want to stay in Paris overnight then please let us know so we can book a rail ticket for you next day rather than on the day we arrive. You’ll be expected to make your own Hotel arrangements for that night if you’re staying in Paris.  For those staying we intend to arrange an informal post ride diner at somewhere reasonably priced where we can all share the costs. Confirmation back to us of your full name as it appears on your passport. That’s it for now, as ever if you have any questions then please feel free to call us or e-mail us by clicking on this link Keep up the training and we’ll be in touch again soon! Andy Thomas Arch To Arc co-ordinator amt@jameswhalefund.org Crispin Dior James Whale Fund Events Team cd@jameswhalefund.org

Things you need to do and think about Have you got your insurance? How you want your bike to get back? Have you started training yet?

Arch to Arc is a fundraising event of the James whale Fund, with its own unique WEB site. Please note that Unsubscribing to the Arch to Arc updates and any of its Newsletters will NOT exclude you from receiving updates and information about the General work and other events that the James Whale Fund for Kidney Cancer may send from time to time. To do this you must visit the site of www.jameswhalefund.org and take the Unsubscribe option.

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However I thought it would be worth publishing the Arch to Arc video so you can all see what it was like, and hey it might even encourage some of you to sign up for it next year ………. Here it is!

Arch 2 Arch London/Paris Cycle from Laurence Cameron on Vimeo.

I think Laurie has done a great job, just about the right length.

The roller-skiing has started again in ernest, which is a good thing since I’ve put on so much weight since the bike ride… Crazy given all the cycling, running and skiing I’ve done, but at least you now know why there’s a pie shortage in Southern England.

Lots of exciting things have been going on at the James Whale Fund for Kidney Cancer over the past couple of months. I’ll try and make an effort to write about them shortly, things like the nurses on-line training course and the Patient Day that’s coming up on the 17th November. Check out the web-site if you want to learn more.

Oh yeah, and here’s a pici of the new hound ….

Hands up who didn’t go Awwww Cute!!! ….. (we’ll see just how cute it remains once she’s destroyed our carpets and furniture).

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