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2008 details below
Rutland Marathon 2007 Bob presents Debbie Smith from NCH with a cheque. Final total raised at this years marathon may reac. Final total to be announced soon. Thanks to all the event sponsors, for a full list click on Rut. marathon above. Special thanks goes to everyone who helped at the event
National
Children’s Homes Rutland Marathon Venue
Whitwell Rutland Water Saturday May 17th (Reserve Day Sunday 18th ) 2008 Marathon Sponsors our thanks to the following companies who have agreed to sponsor the 2008 Rutland Marathon 1. Boardwise 2. Oxendon Trailers 3. Surf Centre 4. Noble Marine Insurance 5. Ultra Sport 6. Windsurf Magazine 7. Surf Sales 8. Boards Magazine 9. Tushingham Sails 10. Rutland Water Sports 11. Demon Sails 12. Dave Nobles 13. UKWA Midland Region www.midlandswindsurfing.org.uk 14. Trevor Steels Trailers www.tstrailers.co.uk 15. Rednemesisdog 16. Mex Homes Limited 17. Riks Windsurfing 18. Neil Pryde 19. Scottish Newcastle Breweries
Your T Shirt for 2008
A letter from the NCH to all competitors.
It’s Marathon time! Greetings Windsurfers, I’m sure you don’t need
me to remind you that last year your Marathon event at Rutland Water raised over
£2,800 for NCH, the children’s charity, and it was great to have the
opportunity to meet and thank you all when I came down to receive the cheque in
May. As your 2007 Marathon is fast
approaching and you will again be out signing up sponsors, I thought it would be
a good opportunity to tell you a bit more about the work of NCH and how the
money that you raise can really help make a difference to the lives of some of
the country's most vulnerable and excluded children, young people and their
families. NCH has been supporting children and young people affected by
poverty, disability, abuse or neglect for over 135 years. Today we are the
UK’s leading children’s charity, working with more than 140,000 vulnerable
children, young people and their families each year. Our work includes a network of community based family centres
supporting families in need; fostering and adoption services; support for
disabled children and their families, young people who are homeless or leaving
care, young carers and youngsters who have been in trouble.
If you would like to know more about our work then you can visit out
website at www.nch.org.uk Fundraising events, such as your Marathon, are vital to
NCH’s ability to help the children and young people we work with and really do
make a difference to the lives of children and young people like Seren, Kelly
and Terry. Seren's
story Seren
was born by emergency caesarean and at 10 days old she was diagnosed with severe
cerebral palsy caused by oxygen starvation. At six months old she was referred
to her local NCH disability project. At
the project Seren plays, paints and sings, has speech therapy and enjoys the
sensory room, with its fibre optic curtain, UV lights and bubble tube. Seren's
mum, Alison, says: “They’ve taught us lots of ways to help her. Each room in
our house has a colour theme now. It helps her put things in context.
This project has given her her life. It’s inspired us and inspired
Seren – without coming here, she wouldn’t be the child she is.” We
run over 50 projects supporting disabled children and their families, including
community services that provide specialist play and education opportunities for
disabled children and offer advice and support to their families; short breaks
projects that allow disabled children to enjoy regular time away from home, while
their families have a break from their care responsibilities and shared care
services where we recruit volunteer or part-time carers to help look after
disabled children with a range of needs, from just a few hours a week. Kelly's
story When
16-year-old Kelly’s mum suddenly got sicker, Kelly had to stay at home to look
after her, and was unable to attend school for nearly a term.
The local NCH Young Carers' project found out about Kelly’s situation,
and helped arrange for someone else to look after Kelly’s mum during the day,
so that she could go
back to school. Kelly
has now taken 11 GCSE exams and is studying for her A-levels. Eventually, she
hopes to become a nurse. She says: 'I just wouldn’t have coped at all if it
hadn’t been for the project. I don’t know where I’d be without them.' Our Young Carers projects help children
and young people who are caring for a sick or disabled relative, such as a
parent who has a long term illness is mentally ill or addicted to alcohol/drugs,
to cope with the extra pressures they face Terry's
story Terry
started playing truant after his parents split up. He began stealing cars at 13
and left home at 14. With no financial support, he continued stealing cars to
survive. At 17, he came to an NCH leaving care project. He
now lives with a family in approved lodgings, and is learning to live
independently. He says: “They teach me to budget, cook and clean – and
they’ve helped me get into college. They’re nice people and they treat my
well. I know for sure that I’d still be offending if I didn’t have the
support of NCH. They are helping me
to start afresh as a better person.” NCH works with more young people leaving care than any
other UK charity. They are among the most vulnerable people we work with, yet
they're expected to cope on their own at an age when most young people are still
living with their parents. Often, they struggle to manage. We help them to find and keep accommodation; develop vital
independence skills like budgeting and healthy eating, and access college and
job opportunities. My thanks once again to the Association for choosing to
support NCH, the children’s charity, through this year’s Marathon.
Good sponsorship hunting, good luck to all of you who are competing and I
look forward to meeting you again at the Marathon weekend in May. Debbie Smith NCH Regional Fundraiser Some photographs are posed by models
Further
Details Will Be Posted Here (Saturday
from approximately 1.30pm. Marathon only
entries will be accepted on the day.)
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