Marc & Steve's Charity coast to coast walk: May 2011

Thursday 26 May 2011

Quiz Night

On Friday evening the quiz night was held to kick start the fundraising, 11 teams took part and lots of fun was had by all. The raffle helped to bring the total for the night to £390! plus a few of the better prizes which were all donated by local companies will be auctioned off seperatly!

A second batch of letter have gone out and we hope to have a nother raffle, the local paper are going to do a big article the week before the walk starts and the local radio station hope to talk to Marc and Steve each day live.

Sponsor forms are doing well , although we now feel the target of £2,000 may be difficult to reach but we sure are trying LOl...

Tuesday 10 May 2011

Launching the coast to coast blog

Ok my name is Sue and I am Marc's Mum, aka rulusmum on greyhound gap and greyhound lover in the crafting world but for the purpose of this blog I shall be known as the walk coordinator, I gave myself that title LOL. Well I deserve something having been roped in to help and I didn't fancy dogsbody!

The aim of this blog is to keep people informed as to how the fundraising is going and once the walk starts to do daily updates.

Marc and Steve have self funded this walk so all money donated goes to greyhound gap! we have sent out over 100 letter to local companies asking for donations or prizes for the raffle and had a moderate response so far! There is to be a quiz night on the 20th May when the raffle and auction will take place, also a dress down day at the police station for civilian workers has been agreed to by the top brass. Also hoping to add a few more fundraising events time permitting.

So far there has been several articles in the local paper (go to page 6 for one of them) giving the walk good publicity and hopefully another nearer the time. We are also hoping the local radio station will be talking live to the boys each day as they walk.

If you would like to make a donation that would be fabulous and can be done via the just giving page or by contacting me, also if you could pass this blog address out to friends and family that would be fantastic! and why not add yourself as a follower.

Marc, Steve, the walk, Greyhound Gap and why!

Pc Marc Norman & Pc Steve Bright's Coast to Coast Walk June 25th - July 3rd 2011 - in aid of the Greyhound Gap charity.

The Coast to Coast walk is a 196 mile walk from St Bee's Head in Cumbria to Robin Hoods Bay in Yorkshire. The Irish sea to the North Sea.

The walk passes through the 3 national parks of the Lake District the Yorkshire Dales and finally the North Yorkshire Moors, also passing through along the way the Pennines and the Clevaland Hills.

We have tweaked the walk to make it officially 200 miles and intend to complete this over 8 nights and 9 days which will average each day out at 22.2 miles although some days will be shorter and much longer! depending on the altitutude for each stage of the walk.

Both Steve and I enjoy such challenges and regulary enter long distance runs.

The Gurka Challenge in July 2009 was our last event for charity, for the Gurka Welfare trust and Oxfam, with over £3,000 raised.... the training was taken very seriously and as such a finishing time of 16 hrs 26 mins over the 64 mile course resulted in a 25th placing out of 537 - some 42 minutes quicker than the Parachute Regiment!

We had both discussed the Coast to Coast walk for sometime and had talked about a charity we would like to raise money for....this was when we quickly decided upon Greyhound gap.

We both have a personal reason for choosing GAP as Steve has sadly lost ' MAX ' whom was rescued and was able to see out his remaining 3 years in a loving environment and Marc's family have been rescuing hounds for some 15 years.

We hope to achieve a target of £2,500 to present to GAP through various events that will take place prior to the walk, if you would like to make a donation we and greyhound gap would be very grateful, donations can be made via our just giving page or by contacting Sue aka greyhound lover aka MUM to Marc.

Below is some information on Greyhound Gap and the fantastic work that goes on around the country, please take the time to read this as it will become very apparent very quickly to all of you why we want to both raise money and promote through as much publicity as possible their good work, for more information visit their website via the link below.

Grey Hound gap is a registered company (No:113207) that rescues, takes in and re-homes death row Greyhounds and Lurchers who find themselves in a ' put to sleep ' situation in UK pounds

Greyhound Gap are trying to raise £100,000 as a deposit for a property and kennels that will enable them to spend more time with the dogs and especially those that that are in need of rehabilitation. In addition to fund raising for this they also need to raise in excess of £6,000 per month for kennel bills, vet bills etc. Greyhound Gap is run by Lisa and her trustee's and a band of volunteers up and down the country, all of which work tirelessly to help any hound in danger!

To find out more about gap visit their website.