Here We Go
9:41 am at St Bees and we are off 🙂
Fundraising reaches £1000
Today my Pendleside Hospice fundraising total hit a whopping £1000. Just what we needed to get us on our way tomorrow 🙂
The total is a combination of my 13in13 challenge from last year and the Coast to Coast which we start tomorrow. Please don’t stop there though, the hospice always needs our donations and help to keep running. So its on to the next thousand now with my ultimate aim to reach £10,000 one day. @PendlesideHosp @PendleNews
Please sponsor us on our epic challenge either at:
Our secure Just Giving page http://www.justgiving.com/gr4ph
Or by texting a donation. Just simply send a text to 70070 with the code GDPH65and the amount you wish to sponsor from the following choices £1 £2 £3 £4 £5 or£10.
Coast to Coast can be tracked LIVE!!
We have been testing our live tracking and it now seems to be working. Basically Mark has a Garmin GPS watch that can connect to an app on his iPhone. The watch sends location info at regular intervals to the app and this in turn posts it to a live link whenever we have an internet connection. So each day we will start the session going and post the link on all the social media sites, this blog and the Pendleside Hospice web site. All you have to do is click the link and it will show you a map in your web browser with our location and our progress so far that day. At the top it shows the distance walked and time taken and at the bottom in the blue bar you can view various graphs of the progress.
With the walk going through some remote areas the live feed will be intermittent but once an internet connection is established the route and location will be brought up to date. Don’t you just love technology 🙂
Please sponsor us on our epic challenge either at:
Our secure Just Giving page http://www.justgiving.com/gr4ph
Or by texting a donation. Just simply send a text to 70070 with the code GDPH65 and the amount you wish to sponsor from the following choices £1 £2 £3 £4 £5 or£10.
The C2C challenge has gone mobile
Ive now managed to get the site optimised for viewing on mobile devices. So now theres no excuse for following our progress no matter where you are. Just type in the blog address and the magic of the internet will work out what device you have and render it accordingly. http://graden.org.uk/c2c
Please sponsor us on our epic challenge either at:
Our secure Just Giving page http://www.justgiving.com/gr4ph
Or by texting a donation. Just simply send a text to 70070 with the code GDPH65 and the amount you wish to sponsor from the following choices £1 £2 £3 £4 £5 or £10.
Graham & Mark’s Coast to Coast walk for Pendleside Hospice
Only a few days to go now before myself and Mark Duerden attempt to walk the 190 mile Coast to Coast, created by the legendry Alfred Wainwright, in just 10 days. That’s a whopping average of 19 miles per day. Thankfully we get to stay in a hotel/pub each night to recover, or drink away the pain, and also get to see some of the most amazing countryside this country has to offer. We started this challenge purely as a personal one but with Pendleside Hospice being my favourite charity and run by some incredibly hard-working people, it wasn’t that hard to make the decision to raise some funds for them along the way.
I am hoping to be able to blog the journey each evening to let you all know how we are doing. I will post to Facebook and twitter regularly and you can also subscribe to this blog by entering your email address in the box at the bottom right of this page. This will ensure you get every post that is written here so you are right up to date with our progress. Im no literary genius but I will attempt to make it interesting and give you an insight into our amazing journey.
So if you feel like we are doing something good and you enjoy our journey then please please please spare a little of your hard-earned money and sponsor us. Every pound makes a huge difference to the hospice and ultimately the patients who rely on the amazing work the staff do for them.
http://www.justgiving.com/gr4ph
