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My name is Jacqui and I'm a volunteer at Book-Cycle, a registered charity that provides books and educational materials to children across the globe; via our 'pay as you feel' bookshops. We also offer trees, promote sustainability and a whole host of other cool stuff in local communities! If you would like to read more about our work, check us out here - www.book-cycle.org
This summer we are sending 50,000 children's books to Ghana. Myself and my daughter, Georgia, would like to spend 2 weeks this summer working in Ghana. We plan to help build the libraries where children can access and enjoy the books that have been donated by schools in the Wigan borough and by local people.
Obviously there are numerous costs involved in such a project, not to mention many hours of book sorting beforehand. To give you a scale of the operation; we have to fill a shipping container!
So here's the bit where I ask for some help. Any contribution, however small will be greatly appreciated and every penny will be used for it's intended purpose. Over the course of this year we will be taking part in group fundraising events; however I figured that if I am asking people to part with their hard earned cash, I should be willing to suffer more than just a few extra hours working unpaid.
So I propose that you wonderful people might like to sponsor me to do something ridiculously out of my comfort zone. Rather than jump out of a plane etc (which whilst terrifying, sounds like a right laugh); I figured I would test myself physically, to an unprecedented level. My friends can testify that the only exercise I've ever done until now, has been on a dancefloor!
My sufferfest will include:
Sunday 17th April - walk from Burscough to Wigan - approx 11 miles
Sunday 22nd May - Great Manchester Run - 10k
Sunday 10th July - Manchester to Blackpool bike ride - 60 miles
August - 28th August - climb Mount Snowdon - 3,560 ft elevation
Sunday 4th September - Ride Of The Roses bike ride - 75 miles
Sat 10th September - Tough Mudder - 20k run plus obstacles
Sat 1st November - Tangrisiau, Wales 8hr caving/traversing/climbing trip through slate mine followed by a free fall drop in total darkness
Perhaps even more incredibly, my grumpy teenage daughter has agreed to join in with some of these events!
Any entry fees will be paid from my own pocket, not your donations.
It would seem that one can't just roll up to one of these events and expect to smash out 10k plus. So pretty much all of my free time is now being spent training in preparation - and typically it's usually cold, wet or hailing! My absence from my local social hangouts should be testament to this, and that gin bottle on top of my cupboard has far outlasted all of it's predecessors.
For the doubters amongst you (or the extremely bored) you can keep track of my efforts on Strava; or you can check out the sweaty unattractive photos on Facebook, if you really need the ugly raw proof.
So keep your eyes peeled, I'll be huffing and puffing my way to a pavement near you soon!
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