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Alzheimers Society
Alzheimer's Society is the UK's leading care and research charity for people with dementia and those who care for them. There are 700,000 people with dementia in the UK with numbers set to rise to one million by 2025. Alzheimer's Society is a membership organisation, which works to improve the quality of life of people affected by dementia in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Many of our 25,000 members have personal experience of dementia, as carers, health professionals or people with dementia themselves, and their experiences help to inform our work. The Society's fight for a better world for people with all types of dementia takes a wide range of forms. Through our branches, we touch the lives of over 30,000 people every week, providing practical services and support for people with dementia and their carers. Every year, more than a million people make use of the information we provide. Through campaigning and lobbying we strive to influence government policies and raise awareness of the challenges faced by people with dementia and the people who care for them. And through our research programme we work to improve the knowledge we have about dementia and its treatment - and pursuing the ultimate goal of finding a cure.
The Fire Fighters Charity
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.

Event details

09 June 2011

I am fundraising as a personal challenge. My challenge is the Arch 2 Arc Triathlon!!

Only 0 days to go!

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Team Urban Fitness GB: Arch 2 Arc 2011

Fundraisers: 
Thomas Reader,

My page: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/urbanfitnessgb

Urban Fitness GB has put together a 6-man team to tackle the World’s longest and meanest triathlon; The Arch 2 Arc!

The team is attempting to complete the triathlon in a new world record time, the race consists of; an 87 mile Run from the Marble Arch in London to Dover, followed by a Swim across the English Channel, ending with a 181 mile Bike ride from Calais to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris!  

  

Our team is comprised of Stu Founder of Urban Fitness GB, Dave and Rob; local Fire-Fighters, and finally Luke, Tom and Ed; National Level Competitive Swimmers. The experience, dedication and quality of each of the individuals, will give us a phenomenal chance of smashing the world record (of which at time of print stands at: 37 hours and 15 mins!!)

 

We are currently raising money for two charities;
Alzheimer’s Society: the Alzheimer’s Society works to improve the quality of life of people affected by dementia; working in research, increasing awareness and support for sufferers and carers. There are currently more than 700,000 people in the UK living with dementia, which is expected to rise to over a million by 2025.
The Fire Fighters Charity: the Fire Fighters Charity provides help and assistance to 17,000 individuals with support and pioneering treatments. With fire fighters responding to an incident somewhere within the UK every 30 seconds, where they put their lives on the line, the charity is indeed a beneficial and instrumental organisation.
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Recent donors

01.08.11 A little extra from Brenty

17.07.11

17.07.11 Well done Dave and team. A world record!!! Amazing stuff. love Ian and Fee

06.07.11 Fantastic achievement!!!!

01.07.11 Well done Luke and the rest of the team on your fantastic effort and world record!

27.06.11 Welldone guys on a record breaking achievement. Hopefulyy, you will get to keep the record for a while.

26.06.11 excellent achievement well done to you Griggy and team.

24.06.11 Fantastic achievement, many many congratulations to Dave and team on your WORLD RECORD all those hours training paid off big time- WHAT NEXT ?

22.06.11 Well done guys! An amazing achievement for two great causes! x

22.06.11 Well done. Charlene

17.06.11 Well done guys, a great achievement

17.06.11 Well done guys on beating the world record! An absolutely massive achievement for all of you!!

14.06.11 Well done guys with the record.... fantastic achievement for a fantastic cause!

13.06.11 Stu, Tom n the Boys, u guys have etched your names into history! All the blood, sweat & tears were worth it. Congratulations, an AMAZING achievement.

13.06.11 I hear you smashed it! Good work!!

13.06.11 Well done Luke what a great achievment.

12.06.11 Well done guys, great result.

10.06.11 Great achievement. Well done!

10.06.11

10.06.11 Ed, hope you are currently bombing towards Paris - all the best. Cheers, Graham

10.06.11 Great work and good luck!

10.06.11 Impressive, keep going.

10.06.11 good luck Stu and the rest of the crew

09.06.11 Good luck to Ed and the team. Hope all goes well and you're soon all celebrating in Paris

09.06.11 Good luck,guys! You're doing something amazing. Tom - lots of love Amy.

£7,996.00

Running total

Total raised incl. Gift Aid:
£8,885.08
Total donors:
145
Biggest donor:
Anonymous
£380.00  
Last donor:
Anonymous
01.08.11  
Offline fundraising:
£4,300.00