A big thank you for the following big efforts!
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Hair today, gone tomorrow...
A brave Gavin Pidwell (left - before and after) went under the shaver for TB Alert recently. His friends from his local club sponsored him to grow his hair and then have it shaved off in public. Well done Gavin and his sponsors for a fantastic total of £294!
Another bad hair day (or rather 6 months) was had by the lovely Mr Ballard of Genus Pharmaceuticals (right) who didn't have his hair cut between July and the Genus Christmas party. Peter can still be sponsored on Justgiving.
Click here for a hilarious photo timeline of Peter's hair - from nearly there to scary hair!
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TB Alert goes to France in aid of Zimbabwe
An opthalmologist, a vet and a student doctor ran the Beaujolais Marathon in November 2008 in aid of our appeal for Murambinda Hospital (read the appeal here)
The marathon was part of an entire weekend of festivities to welcome the latest batch of Beaujolais nouveau into the world. The event started off well with sunshine, fancy dress and a good pre-marathon spread of coffee, wine, fruit juice and cake provided by volunteers from Fleurie. The self styled “Team Tuberculosis” ran in shirts with ‘Hôpital de Murambinda’ on the back which meant that there were regular shouts of “c’est un hôpital! alors! c’est un hôpital qui court le marathon aujourd’hui”. Kirsten and Hannah put their slow progress down to stopping to explain to French people
the vagaries of TB in Africa, whilst the team's speedster, John, completed in less than three hours.
The team's increasing local fame culminated in an interview on French TV at the post marathon lunch the next day and they have now been offered free places in next year’s marathon.
The team raised an amazing £4,765.80 for the district TB program in Murambinda. Further donations may be given on their justgiving site.
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Brighton cycling...
Our thanks to Himanshu Dalal and friends who cycled nearly 60 miles from London to Brighton on Sunday 1st June 2008. Himanshu, a recovered TB patient was keen to help raise awareness of the disease, and got together a group of friends to join him in this cycling challenge. The team have raised nearly £2,000 for TB Alert and earned our great admiration for arriving in Brighton looking as if they could have cycled all the way back!
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Modelling the latest must-have water bottle
Well done Su, who ran the Sheffield Half Marathon for TB Alert, raising £354. In the picture bar on the far right hand side of the page you can see a picture of Su showing off her TB Alert water bottle - our new gift for anyone who pledges to raise at least £100 in a challenge event for TB Alert.
Su (and many others on this page) also models a TB Alert running vest. This too can be yours if you undertake any running event for TB Alert. Highly sought after, our vests are soft and comfortable (marathon runners you know what I mean - no chafing!), come in mens and womens fitting and are moisture wicking! |
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Kilimanjaro on the city
Staff at Macquarie Group in the City of London climbed 10 times the height of Mount Kilimanjaro (Africa's highest peak, at 19,340ft) on step machines for the TB Alert in April 2008. Over 100 staff took part in teams, competing to see which team could reach the "summit" first. A frenzy of fundraising accompanied the event, resulting in over £8,000 in donations - every penny of which was matched by the Macquarie Group Foundation. The teams also climbed to support a colleague, a former TB patient, who plans to climb Kilimanjaro for real later in the year. |
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British 10k runner
Cristina, recently cured of Multi-drug resistant TB ran the British 10k London in July on the 1st July 2007. Cristina told us what it was like to find out she had TB
" I never thought something like that could happen to me. I had a healthy life style, have been pretty sporty and never smoke a cigarette in my life. I was not meant to have TB!"
Read Cristina's story about her experience with TB here.
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Silver star!
Thanks to Gerry - our first ever Silver Bond Marathon Runner who raised over £4,000 in April 2007. We are expecting our next place in 2011 so if you'd like to be our special runner, best start thinking how you could beat Gerry's great result. If you'd like the chance to run the marathon for us sooner than this you could always apply for your own place. Look out in sports shops for entry forms - last entry date is usually around September. |
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Cycling for TB
Great effort by TB patient Richard Bailey and colleagues from the BG group who told us:
"We cycled from BG Group Thames Valley Park on a 40 mile round trip through Sonning, Nettlebed and villages to the north and back to the BG Group building. It was a great team experience with lovely scenery and those Chiltern Hills to make our way up! Most of all it was wonderful to be out there to help those with TB. One of the group, Richard Bailey, has had Tuberculosis in his spine and is recovering and has had the benefit of excellent NHS treatment, which many around the world do not have" |
Nurses run too!
Its not just TB patients who are willing to get out there all in a good cause - our thanks to Tracey and Grace (see below)- TB nurses from Reading who ran the Great North Run this year. Tracey and Grace ran with Tracey's hubbie Mark, and 6 other runners including some from Lilly (who have chosen TB Alert as their Charity of the Year for 2006). Our 9 runners (and one who due to injury has had to defer to next year) have raised over £3,000 so far (and still counting).
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Tracey and Grace contemplate their training regime |
Mark, Tracey and Grace -ready to head north! |
They made it! |
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Great North Run team TB
Two more of our lovely 2006 Great North Runners are Sandeep (Sunny) Deo, an Orthopaedic Consultant from Swindon (on the right in the TB Alert vest) and John Bestwick, a Wiltshire GP (in the TB Alert vest on the left). John enjoyed it so much he signed up to run it again the next year! |
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Marathon acheivements
Well done Sarah Fawcus and Geetha Rabindrakumar who ran the Flora London Marathon in April 2005. Both raised over £1,000 for TB Alert's work.
Ladies who lunch
Doctors Vanessa Graham and Muriel Buxton-Thomas who raised over £10,000 between them for a walk in the park! Click here to read about the Ladies who Lunch 2005 walk, which overall has raised at least £13,000, and counting. Read about Ladies who Lunch 2005. Read about the event in 2004.
Who ate all the pies?
Thanks to Damian Porter and his team mate (known only to us as Ginster!), who ran the Windsor half marathon on 25th September 2005. In record time, Damian set up a fundraising page and within a couple of weeks had raised over £1200. He was pretty quick on his feet too - with a time of under 2 hours. Obviously the thought of the pasty at the end spurred him on!
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halfway - still going |
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I need a pasty! |
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