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Cecily’s Fund helps Zambian children, who have been orphaned or made vulnerable as a result of HIV and AIDS, to get an education. Education is one of the most effective weapons in the battle against HIV, giving children vital information, support from teachers and friends and skills to help them earn a living after school. We enable nearly 10,000 children to go to school by providing uniforms, shoes, books, pens and other equipment, and paying school and exam fees. Once they graduate, we help some of them train as teachers and peer health educators so they can pass on life giving education to thousands more youngsters. For more information see our website www.cecilysfund.org.
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Run, Wheeler, Run
Hello friends,
On the 22nd of April 2012, one week before my 30th birthday, I will be running 26 miles and 385 yards around London. This is a very long way, I believe the kids these days are calling it a "marathon". Obviously I would not be doing this unless I had a really good reason, and that reason is a charity called Cecily's Fund.
This incredible charity works with partner organisations in Zambia to support vulnerable children, especially those who have been orphaned by AIDS. Cecily's Fund helps to provide schooling (including meals and uniforms) for these children in Kitwe and Lusaka, as well as health education to slow the spread of the disease. The charity makes a commitment to support each child that they take on right to the end of his or her school career. The Fund also supports young people in Zambia training to be teachers themselves.
As many of you know (but most of you don't), Cecily Eastwood was head girl at my school when I was 13, and was quite a remarkable person. On her gap year Cecily went to Kitwe, Zambia to volunteer for a charity helping children orphaned by AIDS. Tragically, she died in a road accident just months later, and in 1998, Cecily's parents set up Cecily's Fund in her memory.
This is important: Cecily's Fund is a very small charity, with just three full-time and three part-time staff in addition to their trustees. They only receive ONE guaranteed charity place in the London Marathon every FOUR YEARS. They have been offered this special place in 2012 because two years ago their runner raised a whopping £27,000 for the charity! I have set a slightly more conservative target of £3,000 but I still need you all to dig deep and give whatever you can to help me reach this target. As I'm sure you can appreciate it is an honour and a huge responsibility to be running on their only London Marathon place in 2012.
I will also be organising a couple of fundraising events over the coming months, and if anyone would like to get involved with these that would be hugely appreciated, so I will be in touch when I have more details. Meanwhile, if you'd like to read more about the amazing work Cecily's Fund does you can read all about them on their website www.cecilysfund.org
Thank you so much for reading and please give generously.
Dan x
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Recent donors
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Rachel & Javi xx £10.00 01.05.12 Well done! |
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Hacksaw £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 29.04.12 This boy has certainly got Wheels. I take all the credit as I definitely started you running again in the palace and then gave up a week later, leaving you to do the admirable thing and raise all this dough. |
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James Seager £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 26.04.12 well done Wheeler. |
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Constanza donation £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 25.04.12 Fa la la la la |
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As You Like It Cake Sale £42.00 25.04.12 Forsooth, my lord, that was a mighty cake, Which I can not believe that thou didst bake. |
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Josiejo £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 25.04.12 WELL DONE WHEELER!! xxx |
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vanessa sampson £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 24.04.12 well done!!! |
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Siobhan Doyle £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 24.04.12 What a ledge! |
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Mads £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 24.04.12 Sorry it's late. Much like you I am slow. xx |
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Anonymous £18.00 (+ £4.50 giftaid) 23.04.12 I just had to be the one to make it to 3000! Whoop Whoop! Well run Wheeler! |
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Joe Coen £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 23.04.12 Well done mate, have no idea what a good time is but seems you did a great one! x |
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Karen Ascoe £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 23.04.12 Congratulations, Dan! Incredible achievement...I am so impressed. How are your legs??! |
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Peter and Jean Tier £40.00 (+ £10.00 giftaid) 23.04.12 hope you survived - well done! |
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Cressida Langlands £13.00 (+ £3.25 giftaid) 23.04.12 This is the money I didn't spend on a train fare the other day... |
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Pippa Rabey (via Tiers) £41.84 (+ £10.46 giftaid) 22.04.12 Dan - when our (South African) babysitter heard what you are doing, she donated her earnings for the evening. So this is from her, via us. |
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Jo Alldridge £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 22.04.12 Well done Dan. Very impressive. |
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Helen Bradbury £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 22.04.12 |
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Bryn & Fiona £30.41 (+ £7.60 giftaid) 22.04.12 Well done Dan, snuck that achievement in just before the big 3-0. Have a very happy birthday xx |
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Ben Deery £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 22.04.12 Run, good sir, run! |
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Bar Mace £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 22.04.12 GO Go Go Dan! |
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Andrew Latham £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 22.04.12 Great effort mate! That's a very impressive time, and a worthwhile charity. All the best, Andrew. |
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Emma Earle £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 22.04.12 Best of British young Wheeler. X |
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Clarence Conway £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 22.04.12 Good luck Dan, what an amazing thing you are doing! I'm sure you'll be brilliant! See you soon xxx |
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Esther Biddle £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 22.04.12 Go, dan, go! Love you mate! Love Esther and ben x x |
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Jen V £5.00 (+ £1.25 giftaid) 22.04.12 Good luck, Dan! I'm watching right now! |
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Katie Matthews £15.00 (+ £3.75 giftaid) 22.04.12 Hope you had a fantastic day Dan...we wish we had been there to cheer you on. Well done for raising money for such a fab cause. You can do ANYTHING now. COME ON!!!!! |
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Gooby £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 21.04.12 Your PR campaign alone deserves far more than this. GO!! |
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Emma Carroll £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 21.04.12 Good luck!! x |
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Tim Chambers £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 21.04.12 Thought I'd donate a bit more seeing as I'm coming to see you run tomorrow now... Imagine what the odds are on William Hill for So excited to see you sprint past us - GOOD LUCK!! xx |
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Nicole and Rich £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 21.04.12 Gooooo Dan!! Xx |
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Libby Tomlinson £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 21.04.12 Good luck Dan! |
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Amy Tapper £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 21.04.12 |
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Henry and Gilly £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 21.04.12 Sorry to be so last minute with our donation but, as slightly scatty people, we have thoroughly enjoyed all the nagging status updates! You are doing an amazing thing and we're sending you lots of love and luck from the wilds of the North.... |
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Alex & Han £40.00 (+ £10.00 giftaid) 20.04.12 Good luck mate - hope you'll be paying Leeds a visit on your open top bus victory tour of the UK! |
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Steve Jones £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 20.04.12 Best o' luck, young man. Hopefully see you at the end of it all. |
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Bill and Clare £60.00 (+ £15.00 giftaid) 20.04.12 I don't know how I ended up on this site - bit confused - I just google 'Dan Wheeler, Virgin' Good Luck anyway! |
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Constanza Sweepstake £50.00 20.04.12 Tra la la la la! |
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Iain £10.55 (+ £2.64 giftaid) 19.04.12 Good luck Wheeler! |
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Pommers £5.00 (+ £1.25 giftaid) 19.04.12 Good Luck Dan!! x |
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Alexa reid £5.00 (+ £1.25 giftaid) 19.04.12 Sorry it's so little but we are baby broke good luck and hope your not too crippled after xxxxx |
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Rachel Cooper £30.00 (+ £7.50 giftaid) 18.04.12 I'm an old Bedalian (left in 85) and spent my gap year in Zimbabwe - so can fully imagine what Cecily was giving and gaining from her experience. I've never run a marathon but I'm sure you'll deserve more than £3000. Good luck! |
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Oliver Cockerham £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 18.04.12 It's been a tremendously long time my friend, but I felt obliged to slip you a little cash. Tear up that black top! |
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Charlie £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 18.04.12 attaboy Wheeler, podium finish please... |
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Oliver Jones £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 18.04.12 Go Dan! |
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Sally £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 18.04.12 Good Luck!! |
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Lucy Crystal £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 18.04.12 Run Dan Run! |
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Chris Lazenby £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 18.04.12 Good luck mate, Run Wheeler Run! |
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Dan Tuite £25.00 (+ £6.25 giftaid) 17.04.12 Go, Wheels, Go! May the wind be at your back, may the road rise up to meet you, and may Vaseline prevent any unseemly chafing. X |
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Rick £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 17.04.12 but what will you do when you've reached the ocean? |
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Anonymous £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 16.04.12 |
Running total
- Target:
- £3,000.00
- Total raised incl. Gift Aid:
- £4,852.95
- Total donors:
- 130
- Biggest donor:
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Richard Moyes
£200.00 - Last donor:
- Rachel & Javi xx 01.05.12
- Offline fundraising:
- £1,000.00
