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In Partnership
FUND RAISING FOR CHARITIES and GOOD CAUSES.
The guaranteed entry places available through
Rotary are available to those willing to raise a
guaranteed level of sponsorship monies. The race
entry fee is refundable.
The principal causes jointly supported by IronmanUK
& Rotary in connection with the 2012 event are:
1
Children’s Hospice'S
“Helping Children with a life-limiting or
life-threatening condition.”
In the south-west of England alone there are over
800 children & their families who could be helped.
Children’s Hospice South West was started to help
them, with the first hospice opening in Barnstaple
in 1995 and the second newly opened in North
Somerset in 2007. These are the only children’s
hospice in the south-west & support over 200
children & their families, offering respite,
relaxation, friendship, a sense of community &
beyond that can share the 24-hour care of a very
sick child & support the family in bereavement.
The demands have continued to increase. The aim now
is to provide a third hospice, this time in Cornwall
and your help is needed to both contribute
significantly to the £15 million that is needed to
build, equip & endow it with initial running costs
and to complete the build of a 3rd. hospice in the South
West.
In the North West, Derian House
provides similar care, looking to provide for
children who are terminally ill the optimum support
to cope with their illness, along with the best
possible medical care on top of maximum support for
their families.
Our additional major causes are:
2 Life
Education Centres
"Helping Children Make Healthy Choices." - Assisted
by Rotary throughout the UK
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Educating
children about the effects and risks associated
with the use of drugs alcohol and tobacco.
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Contributing to life-skills and health education
programmes, utilising models of best practice.
By
working in partnership with schools and others in
the community
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Life
Education Centres is the largest charity of its
kind building partnerships with primary schools
and the community as a whole to support and
promote best practice in health education.
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Highly
trained Educators work in specially designed
mobile classrooms providing a stimulating
learning environment, working with children from
the age of 3 upwards in the belief that
effective drug prevention education cannot be
left until children reach adolescence.
Under
the theme
"STOP IT
BEFORE IT STARTS"
3.
CANCER CHARITIES
All of us
know of someone who has been afflicted by cancer in
some form or other and needed treatment or care. To
help the charities and causes of research and care
we wish to support a great range of fantastic
organisations. Our list includes:
CLIC Sargent (Cancer &
Leukaemia in Children)
Cancer Research UK
MacMillan Cancer Relief
Leukaemia Research Fund
Marie Curie
Help us to Help Them
4. AIR AMBULANCE
On average an emergency air
ambulance takes off every 10 minutes in the UK,
flying 365 days a year in daylight hours. Put
another way, during every hour of every day 7 air
ambulances are attending accidents and medical
trauma. Air Ambulance is a VOLUNTARY EMERGENCY
SERVICE and needs to fund spending of around
£875,000 each week.
Help us to help them – you
never know when they may need to help you.
Exceptionally, we have just a handful of bonded
entry places for athletes strongly committed to
raising funds for an individual charity. If you are
in this category take a look at the
list of charities that Rotary & IronmanUK have
agreed to support.
If you
take an entry place in this category, your fund
raising will be divided between your preferred
charity & the causes supported jointly by IronmanUK
& Rotary in the proportion as agreed between Rotary
and yourself: up to 50% may be passed without
deduction to your nominated cause. If your charity
is listed please submit an application entering the
name(s) of the charity that you wish to carry
sponsorship for. Please note that the sponsorship
monies that you raise will be channelled via
Rotary. In turn, the funds will be passed to the
nominated charity in full & credited to your fund
raising efforts.
If when completing our on-line entry form you find
these few entry places are taken, please e-mail us &
ask if we can offer another place.
Similarly, if the charity you wish to support is not
listed ask if it may be possible for us to add it to
the list and offer a race entry slot.
FOR THE FUTURE
Discussions are taking place now
to consider the establishment of a trust to work
towards establishing a permanent Sporting Facility
in the years ahead – facilities that could be used
by triathletes and the wider public.
If you wish to know more and be
advised of progress please email and we shall add
your name to our contact list.
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