Charity
“I’ve raised £70,000 for the
Yamaa Trust” Andrew Murray, 30, is a GP from Edinburgh. He runs epic ultras!
“When I started running in Australia and New Zealand I had no idea how much money I would go on to raise. I just thought it would be a good way to see the world. “I got my first taste of
fundraising in 2005 when I raised £2,500 for the Mount Everest Foundation at the Everest Marathon. It was a difficult route but the scenery was mind-blowing. “In 2007 I did the Marathon des Sables one week and a North Pole run the next week, raising £2,500 for a hospital in Zambia. “In November last year I did the Scotland to Sahara run. I set off from John O’Groats to run 2,659 miles, which I managed in 77 days. I have so far raised £70,000 for the Yamaa Trust, which aims to reduce poverty in the South Gobi area of Mongolia. “I love the fact I can make a
difference by running!”
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“I can’t believe I will be running the Marathon
Des Sables!” Alexa Torlo, 29, is an enterprise project manager from Moseley, Birmingham. She hopes to raise £4,000 at the Marathon Des Sables
“Four years ago my kick- boxing coach suggested we went for a four-mile run. I was reluctant because I suffered from asthma, but I loved it! It’s hard to believe I am running the Marathon des Sables this month – 243km across the Sahara Desert in six days! “Since that first run I’ve
raised about £1,500 for Mind, Tiny Babies, Big Appeal and Cancer Research from running. The charities close to my heart now are Live Life Then Give Life in London and the Donor Family Network – in memory of Dan, a friend who died at 25 while waiting for a heart transplant. “By the time I return from the Sahara I hope to have raised about £4,000 to be divided between these two charities.”
“My son Sidney inspried me to
raise £13,000” Simon Blundell, 34, is a fund manager from Sevenoaks, Kent. His son Sidney has mytonic dystrophy and Simon runs to raise money for Muscular Dystrophy
“My son Sidney suffers from myotonic dystrophy, a form of Muscular Dystrophy. Sidney is wheelchair-bound, doesn’t speak and he’s tube-fed, and he’s already been through a lot of operations. “We’re lucky in that we
haven’t needed much help from charities because we have a large family around us and we’re financially secure, but we’ve seen the work that the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign has done for other families and I wanted to raise funds to help them. “I got a place in last year’s London Marathon. I was aiming to raise £5,000, but I found people were very generous. My own company gave £1,000 and the dads at my daughter Annie’s school had raised £1,200 for me.”
“£40,000 from
charity running” David Wood, 29, is a digital media officer from Gloucester. Fundraising efforts include running marathons in all the UK’s capitals in one year
“I’ve raised about £40,000 for charity, but I’ve probably raised £15,000 on top of that over the years. I’ve also worked for the Meningitis Trust for six years so professionally I’ve helped raise hundreds of thousands of pounds.
“In 2006 I did marathons in all the UK capitals in one year – London, Cardiff, Belfast and Edinburgh, and I did the Chicago Marathon in 2009. “I’ve raised funds for
various charities but my two main ones are the Meningitis Trust and Breast Cancer Campaign as my auntie is in remission with breast cancer. I like being able to make a difference in the world and tackle illnesses head-on. “My next goal is to run the
marathons in New York, Berlin and Boston, so there’s plenty of fundraising left in me yet!”
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