Charities
The Fire Fighters Charity provides vital support services to fire service personnel and their families when they need it most. The Charity’s three specialist centres across the UK offer fire fighters the help they need to recover from injury, surgery or illness, so they can get back to their job of saving lives.
SOFT UK provides information & support for those affected by trisomy 13 or trisomy 18, (Patau's and Edwards' syndromes), and related disorders. We help parents when they are given a prenatal diagnosis and after any decision they might make as to whether they choose to have a termination or decide to continue the pregnancy. We support those caring for a baby or child with these conditions, and families if a bereavement occurs. SOFT UK publishes booklets about these syndromes, and provides telephone support, links to others and shared experiences through newsletters and annual SOFT Days. We welcome enquiries from doctors, nursing staff and students. Visit our website for online information booklets, data about these conditions, photographs of babies and children, and our new SOFT Stars Remembrance page.
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jim and ewans big trek's fundraising page
We are going to Trek around 887 miles of Shetlands stunning and often inhospitable coastline this summer. We are doing this to raise £22,000 to split equally between The Archie Foundation, SOFT UK and The Fire Fighters Charity.
We are going to Trek around 113 miles of coastline of 7 of the smaller islands on 7 various days in May & June and will start the main part of the trek on 24th June. We shall cover the remaining 774 miles over the following 31 days, meaning we will have to walk an avarage of 25miles per day.
The Archie Foundation are in the process of becoming registered to use Virgin Money Giving and when they are we shall create a new page to incorporate all 3 charities. At the end of the fundraising all charities will recieve an equal amount of money. This will be done by Archie recieving a proportionally larger share of the money which is raised through sponsor sheets and fund raising events.
All donations are gratefully recieved and while we have set a high target, we believe with help from the very generous Shetland community and all kind hearted souls from further afield, we can reach this target and help make a difference to the 3 very worthwhile good causes.
Many thanks - Jim and Ewan
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Recent donors
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Jamie Robertson £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 23.08.11 |
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Bryan & Jax Gray £50.00 (+ £12.50 giftaid) 17.08.11 Good effort boys, I hope you get some finer weather ower da next few weeks tae see you through. |
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Anonymous £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 13.08.11 Well done from Glaisean |
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Anonymous £50.00 (+ £12.50 giftaid) 08.08.11 |
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sol £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 05.08.11 |
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Alison and Peter Fisher £10.00 01.08.11 Good luck and well done. Your lovely photos remind us of one of our favourite places. |
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Tracey Hawkins £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 29.07.11 Congratulations on all the hard work so far and good luck for the rest! |
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Sullom Voe Terminal Workers £604.34 (+ £151.09 giftaid) 29.07.11 Sponsorships from SVT workers - recieved with many thanks |
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Biggest thing in Bixter £30.00 (+ £7.50 giftaid) 28.07.11 Going to have to do something about those peerie ankles at circuit training this winter |
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Pauline Irvine £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 28.07.11 Well done Boys! A great achievement! xx |
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Margaret Simpson £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 28.07.11 Well done through the wind and rain ! |
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Jumbo & Gemma £101.01 (+ £25.25 giftaid) 26.07.11 Brilliant work, you are an inspiration to all guys who get drunk and come up with mad ideas! |
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Grant Wiseman £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 25.07.11 Well done Boys, hope this helps lose your gut Jim |
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Sarah Hunter £15.00 24.07.11 Well done guys, what a challenge!! Hope you reach your target!! Good luck! |
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richard kelly £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 23.07.11 good on you guys good job |
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gordon stove £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 18.07.11 Well done on the trek so far boys |
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The fantastic Shetland public! £940.00 (+ £235.00 giftaid) 18.07.11 sponsorship money |
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Ali H £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 17.07.11 |
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Carole and Jim Green £50.00 14.07.11 We wish you both good luck with your walk. Mind the rabbit holes and enjoy the lemon cake. |
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Lori Pearson £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 14.07.11 An epic Journey guys, keep going! |
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Wendy Anderson £50.00 (+ £12.50 giftaid) 14.07.11 Well done. Enjoying your adventures on Facebook. |
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Ewan Nicolson £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 13.07.11 Best of luck guys, hoop da wadder bides fine for you. |
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Liz Adamson £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 12.07.11 Keep up the tramping! |
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Maurice Scollay £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 12.07.11 Well done - so far! |
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Carina £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 08.07.11 Good on you, keep going :) |
