Charities
The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign leads the fight against muscle-wasting disease in the UK. We provide free care and support for babies, children and adults affected by muscle-wasting disease and fund world-class research to find treatments and cures, provide grants towards equipment and campaign to raise awareness and bring about change.
We exist to help improve the lives of people affected by cancer, both those living with cancer and also their families and carers. Our primary focus is to reach and improve the lives of everyone living with cancer.
Samaritans Vision, Mission and Values focus on ensuring that fewer people die by suicide. Samaritans services are delivered by 18,179 amazing volunteers. Samaritans are the only emotional support line open 24/7. The Samaritans has 201 branches throughout the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
The MS Society is the UK's largest organisation dedicated to supporting the 100,000 people, their families and carers affected by multiple sclerosis (MS). MS is the most common neurological disorder among young adults and is usually diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 45. Our key services and projects include a national freephone helpline, respite care, an MS nurses programme, support for young people caring for families or relatives with MS, funding a dedicated MRI scanner for the diagnosis of MS, providing award-winning information publications and offering welfare grants for home adapdations and wheelchairs.
Help for Heroes (H4H) was founded by Bryn and Emma Parry after a profoundly moving visit to Selly Oak Hospital in the summer of 2007. Bryn and Emma met some extraordinarily brave young people who had been badly wounded and they just wanted to do something to help. "It’s about the blokes, our men and women of the Armed Forces. It’s about Derek, a rugby player who has lost both his legs, it’s about Carl whose jaw is wired up so he has been drinking through a straw. It’s about Richard who was handed a mobile phone as he lay on the stretcher so he could say goodbye to his wife. It’s about Ben, it’s about Steven and Andy and Mark, it’s about them all. They are just blokes but they are our blokes; they are our heroes. We want to help our heroes."
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Geoff Major (National charities, local ties)
Hi, and welcome to my second fundraising page.
This page is for those national charities with local ties whereas my other page (http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/GeoffMajorYorkshire) is for Yorkshire and Humberside-based charities only.
If you would prefer to donate to just one or a handful of the 10 charities I'm fundraising for, please send a cheque made payable to 'Geoff Major Polar Trek' to the address below stating how you would like your money to be allocated.
North Pole Trek, c/o BlueDucks Limited
Round Foundry Media Centre, Foundry Street, Leeds LS11 5QP
The cheque will be deposited with Barclays Corporate through the client account facility Bartfields Accountants have; Bartfields will oversee the legitimacy and transparency of the monies in and out of the account so you can be assured all your donation will go to the appropriate charity or charities.
I've used Virgin because they offer a better deal for the charity. For every £10 donated (with Gift Aid) the charity will get £12.47 because Virgin only take 2% to cover their not-for-profit costs whereas another well-known donations site takes 5%.
So what are you waiting for? And thank you from me and from the charities, as well as the real beneficiaries.
Oh, and if you donate direct (not through this site) PLEASE add a message to say it is in response to my North Pole trek, so I can keep the running total up to date.
Thank you
Recent donors
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Iain Gibbons £50.00 11.05.12 Sorry for the delay Geoff - well done! |
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Dave Metters £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 03.05.12 Fantastic achievement and my pleasure to support the charities. Great blog, great photos, great journey. |
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Giovanna - Dancing Dog MC £100.00 30.04.12 Well done Sir! This is a belated donation for the flag, along with apologies, plus many 'Big ups' & back slaps for a challenge so very well completed. Look forward to exchanging war stories soon (Hawaii being so challenging and brutal after all...!!!) |
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Emma Cooper £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 22.04.12 Well Done General!! What an amazing achievement. Im sure the memories will live with you forever. Looking forward to hearing some of the stories. Very proud Dora :-) x |
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T'other Geoff and Paula £100.00 (+ £25.00 giftaid) 22.04.12 Did you bring any ice back for our Cuba Libre? |
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Sacha Paisley £100.00 (+ £25.00 giftaid) 20.04.12 Oh Lordy, he only went and blimmin done it! Makes Cuba look lie a trip to the shops! Big well done you. Sacha xx |
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valerie Andrews £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 16.04.12 Congratulations the ultimate challenge |
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Tim Upton £50.00 04.04.12 Good luck Geoff, you mad B@@@@@@ |
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Peter Barden £50.00 (+ £12.50 giftaid) 31.03.12 Best of luck Geoff - have fun!! |
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Lee Hodges £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 29.03.12 A fantastic adventure and an amazing challenge - good luck Geoff. |
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Paddy £15.00 (+ £3.75 giftaid) 29.03.12 Good luck and I promise to do my 'blog' revision whilst you're away |
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From Shig and the team £66.00 29.03.12 Half the money raised by the Halle Mall Starbucks store in the Arndale Centre in Manchester, through a 'cake and coffee' event. |
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Dave Lowe £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 27.03.12 Good luck Geoff |
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Douglas Jackson £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 27.03.12 Many thanks for the picture very much appreciated. Hope the event went well!! |
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Liz Morrison £100.00 (+ £25.00 giftaid) 21.03.12 A last good luck wish from me before you set off. Hope it goes brilliantly for you. |
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Jon Channell £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 06.03.12 What a genuinely amazing thing to be doing, Geoff. Have a great time getting to the Pole, and good luck. |
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David Warburton £50.00 (+ £12.50 giftaid) 27.02.12 Best of luck Geoff! |
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Douglas Jackson £100.00 (+ £25.00 giftaid) 10.02.12 |
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Cactus Search £50.00 08.02.12 What a mission! You're a super-hero. Best of luck from the team at Cactus Search! |
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Anonymous £5.00 (+ £1.25 giftaid) 29.01.12 In memory of Oli |
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Richard Woodroffe £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 03.01.12 All the best with the challenge Geoff - would like to know who has signed off the risk assessment though?! |
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Spark & Fuse Marketing £50.00 03.01.12 Good Luck Geoff! Wrap up warm ;0) |
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A Green £250.00 (+ £62.50 giftaid) 01.01.12 |
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Martine £50.00 (+ £12.50 giftaid) 26.12.11 Hi Geoff this is for the flag. Thank you for the chance to remember some lovely people. Dave Wilson, Jackie Colyer, Joyce Sweeney and Pauline Jones. |
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George Marshall (GOWYC) £100.00 (+ £25.00 giftaid) 14.12.11 Best of luck Geoff. What an amazing thing to do! |
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Jason Leach £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 05.12.11 For North Pole trek - Another little donation instead of sending Christmas cards around the office. Not long noew Geoff -J |
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Fuse £200.00 28.11.11 Hi Geoff - absolutely fantastic effort and the very best of luck from all of us here at Fuse. |
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Therese £50.00 (+ £12.50 giftaid) 17.11.11 Give my love to the polar bears! |
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Martine £50.00 (+ £12.50 giftaid) 13.11.11 Inspiring |
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Eric & Eileen Wilson £5.00 (+ £1.25 giftaid) 12.11.11 |
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Jonathon & Alison Kerry £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 12.11.11 |
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Colin & Brenda Holmes £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 12.11.11 |
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Mum £25.00 (+ £6.25 giftaid) 24.09.11 Take an extra pair of socks ha ha |
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Greta from No.2 £5.00 (+ £1.25 giftaid) 24.09.11 Geoffrey, very impressed when your Mum told me what you were doing. I will put £5 on the other website as well |
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Kath Byrne (a friend of your Mum's) £5.00 (+ £1.25 giftaid) 24.09.11 I'll put the other £5 on the 'Yorkshire' site |
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Joshua Cameron £40.00 22.09.11 All the best Geoff, Josh (the guy who bumped into your car) |
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JOURNEY £100.00 17.09.11 It's not just the getting there that's important, it's the 'journey' to get there that provides the experience! |
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Caz, Danni, Agniszka, the other Laura & team £15.00 16.09.11 The other half of the money raised by the Manchester New Cannon branch of Starbucks from sales of cakes |
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Chrissie, Dominic, Claire, Roxie & team £20.00 16.09.11 Half the money raised by the Manchester Fort branch of Starbucks with a coffee and cake day |
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Martin Gibson £25.00 (+ £6.25 giftaid) 15.09.11 Keep up the good work Geoff and good luck with the 'Bond' audition. |
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Shig, the team and their amazing customers £30.00 07.09.11 From the Halle Mall (Arndale Centre) Starbucks branch. This is half of the £60 we raised with a 'cake & coffee' offer on the weekend of 27th/28th August |
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Stephen Bray £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 24.08.11 The tale of your hilarious tyre dragging antics in the park are worth the donation alone. Good luck Geoff! |
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Iain Ranson £50.00 24.08.11 Good Luck Geoff. |
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Alix, Paul & Tommy £30.00 (+ £7.50 giftaid) 22.08.11 Good luck and here's to a successful completion of the trip! Who's going to write the best-selling book if you fall down an ice-hole? Best wishes T, P & A. |
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Rob Worrall £23.00 (+ £5.75 giftaid) 08.07.11 £23 is an odd number but brings you to £4000 online on this site - well done for the effort so far and well done for the efforts in the future. |
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Anonymous £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 28.06.11 |
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Starbucks Hanging Ditch store £24.50 24.06.11 Half the money from the coffee & cup-cakes collection by the team at Starbucks, next to Urbis in Manchester, on Friday 17th June |
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Anne White £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 15.06.11 Geoff - Good luck on your amazing trip. Look forward to hearing how you get on. |
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Andrea Kirkbride £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 23.05.11 As well as the Zinc fundraiser, hope this little extra helps |
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Colin Gray £100.00 14.05.11 Geoff, just read your latest blog. Very powerful. |
Running total
- Target:
- £10,000.00
- Total raised incl. Gift Aid:
- £9,694.38
- Total donors:
- 64
- Biggest donor:
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Amanda Golliker
£500.00 - Last donor:
- Iain Gibbons 11.05.12
- Offline fundraising:
- £5,744.20
