Another fundraising milestone
With just a few weeks to go our fundraising is starting to gather some real momentum. With more than 100 people now actively involved as support runners and co-fundraisers it has become a major team effort. The goal for the 2010 Challenge is to get to $150,000 and right now we are sitting at a [...]
Donating made easy
I have spreadsheetitis, double vision, and am exhausted and about to collapse into bed. But before I do, just a quick reminder that I am writing a series of blogs on Yahoo!Xtra about the 7in7 Challenge. Each time anyone reads one of these Yahoo!Xtra donate valuable money (about 10c) to the cause. We have already [...]
7in7 – it's the place to be seen!
We have just welcomed our 100th Friend of the Challenge – that’s 100 people, many of them previously strangers, who have kindly donated a total of $10,300 to the Leukaemia & Blood Foundation. Thanks to you all. But we still have a very long way to go to reach our $50,000 target. So please everybody, KEEP SPREADING THE [...]
Major milestone reached
Yeeha! With a small flurry of donations today our fundraising has cracked through the $10,000 barrier. Still a LONG way to go to reach the target of $50,000 but we WILL get there. THANKS to all who have helped us get this far. Cheers, Mal.
A moving story, a brilliant idea…
Anyone who has been involved in the NZ multisport scene over the last decade or so will know the name Neil Gellatly, a top athlete with an enviable track record at Coast to Coast and countless other events, and now author and organiser of the Trans Taupo - NZ’s biggest open water paddle/row event. Not so [...]
This is why I'm doing it….
When I committed to making the 7in7 happen I knew I’d find the training and fundraising very rewarding – and they sure have been. But what I hadn’t reckoned on was the amazing support that would come my way from total strangers, many of whom have crossed paths with leukaemia at some point in their lives. [...]
