This coming weekend I'm going to be participating in a 24 hour sponsored skate (with several members of Nottingham Roller Girls including the wonderous Killa_) in aid of the Haiti earthquake appeal.
Jo Coles, who organized the event, said:
My son Jack is 13. He saw the effects of the Haiti earthquake on TV, and he wanted to do something, so he came up with a great idea. We like to skate, and we like to skate a lot... so why not skate for Haiti? Brilliant! The plan was simple: we would skate a lot.. as far as we could go in 24 hours, to raise as much money as possible to help Haiti. Just the two of us. But we needed to find a safe place to skate all day and all night. So we contacted Dunsfold Park in Surrey, and asked about using their airfield test track - the one used by the BBC's Top Gear programme. It's a beautiful circuit! They were very keen to help, but they thought we could go further... much further... and invite hundreds of skaters to join us... we were gobsmacked!... and so SKAITI was created! We want to be the biggest fund-raising skate event that we can be. All to send relief supplies to the people of Haiti. Skaters of all sorts are invited to join: skateboarders, longboarders, inliners, rollerskaters... everyone's welcome to skate!
We've decided to send all of our sponsorship money to Shelterbox, which is a Cornwall-based charity with 10 international affiliates. Shelterbox does amazing immediate practical and vital relief work. Within an hour of the Haiti earthquake Shelterbox volunteers were mobilising to get help to the suffering. Shelterbox sends the things that people really need: tents, blankets, mosquito nets, water purification tablets, tools, and cooking equipment. Every Shelterbox is supplied with essentials to keep 10 people secure in shelter, the one thing most needed after a disaster. Each box even contains children's crayons and paper.
The cost of each box is 490 including delivery to those who need it. Jack and I hoped to raise enough money between the two of us to send one box. But with the help of other skaters, how many will we be able to send? To send four boxes, we need to raise 1960. Please help as much as you can.
Please note that due to the nature of ShelterBoxs disaster relief work, the charity never knows where and when there will next be a need for their lifesaving equipment. To respond to a disaster as quickly possible, they need to have complete flexibility with their funds and equipment and can therefore never accept location or time specific donations. They can however guarantee that the donations they receive will provide shelter, warmth and dignity to people around the world who have been displaced by disaster.
So far they've raised around 10,500.00.
Each Shelterbox costs 490.00.
Please go to THE SKAITI JUSTGIVING PAGE and donate some of your spare money. If not for the people of Haiti, for me to haul my ass around a 1.4 mile track as many times as I can in a day.
Jo Coles, who organized the event, said:
My son Jack is 13. He saw the effects of the Haiti earthquake on TV, and he wanted to do something, so he came up with a great idea. We like to skate, and we like to skate a lot... so why not skate for Haiti? Brilliant! The plan was simple: we would skate a lot.. as far as we could go in 24 hours, to raise as much money as possible to help Haiti. Just the two of us. But we needed to find a safe place to skate all day and all night. So we contacted Dunsfold Park in Surrey, and asked about using their airfield test track - the one used by the BBC's Top Gear programme. It's a beautiful circuit! They were very keen to help, but they thought we could go further... much further... and invite hundreds of skaters to join us... we were gobsmacked!... and so SKAITI was created! We want to be the biggest fund-raising skate event that we can be. All to send relief supplies to the people of Haiti. Skaters of all sorts are invited to join: skateboarders, longboarders, inliners, rollerskaters... everyone's welcome to skate!
We've decided to send all of our sponsorship money to Shelterbox, which is a Cornwall-based charity with 10 international affiliates. Shelterbox does amazing immediate practical and vital relief work. Within an hour of the Haiti earthquake Shelterbox volunteers were mobilising to get help to the suffering. Shelterbox sends the things that people really need: tents, blankets, mosquito nets, water purification tablets, tools, and cooking equipment. Every Shelterbox is supplied with essentials to keep 10 people secure in shelter, the one thing most needed after a disaster. Each box even contains children's crayons and paper.
The cost of each box is 490 including delivery to those who need it. Jack and I hoped to raise enough money between the two of us to send one box. But with the help of other skaters, how many will we be able to send? To send four boxes, we need to raise 1960. Please help as much as you can.
Please note that due to the nature of ShelterBoxs disaster relief work, the charity never knows where and when there will next be a need for their lifesaving equipment. To respond to a disaster as quickly possible, they need to have complete flexibility with their funds and equipment and can therefore never accept location or time specific donations. They can however guarantee that the donations they receive will provide shelter, warmth and dignity to people around the world who have been displaced by disaster.
So far they've raised around 10,500.00.
Each Shelterbox costs 490.00.
Please go to THE SKAITI JUSTGIVING PAGE and donate some of your spare money. If not for the people of Haiti, for me to haul my ass around a 1.4 mile track as many times as I can in a day.
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Was an amazing weekend - I don't know what I was so worried about in the end! Would love to do something like it again... Although - i am slightly terrfified by the idea of Goodwood.... May only register for the kids ones - where you skate 5 miles.... Its all in one go, will I be fit enough to do that by August? Or will I just eat more cakes!?!