Mary Boucher

Charity

Sense - Sense is the leading national charity that supports and campaigns for children and adults who are deafblind. We provide expert advice and information as well as specialist services to deafblind people, their families, carers and the professionals who work with them. We also support people who have sensory impairments with additional disabilities
Sense
Sense is the leading national charity that supports and campaigns for children and adults who are deafblind. We provide expert advice and information as well as specialist services to deafblind people, their families, carers and the professionals who work with them. We also support people who have sensory impairments with additional disabilities

Event details

2010 Virgin London Marathon

25 April 2010

The Virgin London Marathon is one of the great British sporting events, combining elite athletics, mass participation and record-breaking fundraising in one race. The course is a gruelling 26 miles 385 yards long, passing through the streets of London from Blackheath to the famous finish line at The Mall. Since the first race in 1981, 746,635 runners have passed the finish line and raised more than £400 million for charities and good causes. Last year alone a staggering £47.2 million was raised, making the event a Guinness World Record holder as the largest annual fundraising event on the planet.


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London Marathon: Mary goes long this time...

Fundraiser: 
Mary Boucher

My page: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/MaryBoucher

 

WOOHOOOO! job done... Big thanks to everyone for all the sponsorship. Turned out, it wasn't as horrendous as I was imagining it would be like come mile 20, so i ended up having a great time! I even met Richard Branson at mile 25 and ran alongside him talking rubbish for a while - he must have thought who is this loon, but he looked in more pain than I was. Can't say my legs feel too good today, but who cares?!

Lying in bed eating biscuits right now - bliss :-)   Onwards and upwards! And Thank you all for your amazing generosity and kind words x x x   April 27th 2010

 

 

 

Arghhhh! no going back now... I'm carb loading like there's no tomorrow, drinking plenty of water and trying to sleep a good 10 hours a night - there's just the task of the 42km to complete now :-O

Seeing as a lot of the elite field can't make it because of the flight chaos, I've been told I'm in with a chance! (hmmm yeah right mam!!)

All I'm hoping for now is for a cool breeze on Sunday (pleeeeease), to finish it in one piece and raise as much schnooks / wonga for this great charity - so get your wallets out and help with the last bit pleeeeeease. I'm nearly there on the fundraising effort. Thanks sooooo much x x x x

Thursday 22nd April 2010

 

 

 

 

'Truth be told' this marathon training is tough!

I'm up to 15 miles without stopping now and 'at the end of the day, when all is said and done' it's for a good cause, so dig deep and think of me dragging myself out of bed at the crack of dawn on Sunday mornings to go running in the torrential freezing cold rain as well as the 3 or 4 runs  midweek.... arghh roll on the Summer, Pimms cocktails, bbq's, camping on the beach in Wales, flip flops, hmmmm :-)

 February 28th 2010

 

 

This is what your precious money can buy:


£7.50 – Sailing. An hour’s sailing trip for a deafblind child to feel the wind on their face on their Sense holiday.


£15 - Tactile Book. A tactile book to develop a child’s sense of sight and touch at a Sense Family Centre.


£20 - An hour for independence. An hour with a Sense support worker who will be the eyes and ears of an older deafblind person, helping them to remain independent by giving a hand with the shopping, visiting the post office or a trip to church.


£25 - Light Tube. An interactive light tube to help stimulate a deafblind child’s remaining sight.


£75 - Shake rattle and drum-roll. A selection of musical instruments that will help to stimulate the hearing of deafblind children in music therapy sessions.


£150 - Family day. A full day of fun and educational activities for a deafblind child and their family or carers.


£250 - Sensory trails. Kit out the home of a deafblind person with sensory ‘trails’ enabling them to live in a safe secure environmentThis is what gets bought with the money raised which will make a huge difference to so many peoples lives

 

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Recent donors

30.04.10 well done mary

25.04.10 Good luck! Hope you finished OK and enjoyed the race!

24.04.10 Good luck for tomorrow Mary - enjoy it, well the first few hundred yards anyway Lotsa love Lisa x

24.04.10 Loads of good luck Mary! Enjoy tomorrow - it'll be a fantastic day - a real achievement.

24.04.10 Good luck M! Am I the last one? started last week...finishing it now.. little miss Irini won't let you have many quiet moments Valkal x

23.04.10 GOOD LUCK

23.04.10 Good luck Mary. Remeber to haave fun too. Love Ria X

23.04.10 Good luck Mary!! It's something I could never do so I have nothing but respect for those who can! :-)

23.04.10 Go for it girl!

23.04.10 well done Mary, enjoy the run (!) why not treat yourself to some diclofenac to add to the champagne after the race...

22.04.10 Hi Mary I thought I had done this before now but I am quite pleased that I have left my donating effort to the last minute as it looks like I will be the one who takes you to your target. Hurrah! I hope it all goes well. Love A-M

22.04.10 hope the acclimatisation training pays off..

21.04.10 Good Luck Mary and enjoy it. I hear jelly babies are good for sugar boost!

21.04.10 Hi Mary Good luck Su and the rest of the Woollards

16.04.10 Mary go for it . you have the legs to stretch for 26 miles !.

11.04.10 Wow, the fund raising is going great Mary, well done but no slacking in these final two weeks of training. Go Girl!

08.04.10 Best of luck Mary, I'm sure you'll do it easily...

02.04.10 Working on a time of about 4 hours, the minimum wage would give you about £22 which isn't great so as you are a professional we've bumped it to nearly twice that. What I haven't included is a bonus but those have gone out of fashion anyway. Here's £40.

28.03.10 well done Mary - hope the training is going ok - I'm sure it's evidence based like all your good advice to us!

21.03.10

17.03.10 Good luck with the run. Have fun

12.03.10 In the dark hours just remember- this is not as bad as STATA!!! Bonne Chance!

11.03.10 Do it for Glyn and Bryn beaut! They'll love you forever! You are mad, but brill!! Good luck Mar, I take my hat off to you!! Be with you every step!xxxxx

11.03.10 What a grgeat thing to do - best of luck

11.03.10

£1,558.50

Running total

Target:
£1,400.00
Total raised incl. Gift Aid:
£1,940.76
Total donors:
59
Biggest donor:
Ben
£100.00  
Last donor:
Efa
30.04.10  
Offline fundraising:
£203.00