Dear UK Ladies, It's reached that time of year for us to start planning the 2010 Adidas Women’s 5km Challenge at London's Hyde Park, taking place on Sunday 5th September.
If you participated at last year’s event, you should be receiving a pack from the Adidas Women’s 5km Challenge Organisers encouraging you to take part again this year. We would very much like you to consider joining us in the fun run on behalf of the ACLT... so that we can ultimately benefit the families living with leukaemia and all blood related cancers through the work of the ACLT. I’ve attached a link to the Adidas Women’s 5km Challenge website: Click Here so that you can immediately secure your place.
The organisers have a selection of chosen charities, unfortunately we are not one of them and so you will be asked to add the ACLT details.
ACLT, Southbridge House, Southbridge Place, Croydon CR0 4HA. Tel no. 020 8240 4480.
To register to take part in the 5km fun run the organisers charge a £15 entry fee of which £5 will automatically be donated to the ACLT. So you will be asked to make a payment on the secure online payments page. Once completed you will be registered to take part and can then commence raising donations. Please let us know as soon as you have secured your place.
We would really like everyone to come along to the run with family and friends.
We will have an established base on the day which will be up and running before our first runners arrive and there will be a notice prior to the day on how to get to the ACLT's meet point. We will be posting out ACLT T-shirts PRIOR to the run to all of those ladies that provide us with stamped addressed envelopes; the T-shirts will of course be free. Otherwise T-Shirts will be provided on the day.
If you are up for this challenge please let us know. If you would like to join us please email us at info@aclt.org for confirmation, with your full name and your mobile phone number for text updates etc,
Last year many of our runners chose to set up a "justgiving" CLICK HERE web page to collect sponsorship money - this method of sponsorship meant that all money pledged was definitely received by the charity; I am going to produce a step by step guide on how to set up a Just Giving web page so that we can maximise our receipt of promised sponsorship and of course gain 28p from our government from ever £1 sponsored on your behalf. I know there will always be those who will not enter their credit card details on line and so our official sponsorship forms will be posted or e-mailed to anyone requesting them. Finally, a word from us to give you an update on the ACLT and what the charity will be striving towards with your support
ACLT Update April 2010
Unfortunately, 24,000 sufferers require life saving bone marrow transplants at any one time. Less than 3% of potential donors on the bone marrow registers are made up of ethnic minorities. Raising awareness & potential funds for the ACLT will allow us to continue to host awareness events and registration drives throughout the UK and Worldwide, therefore potentially giving greater hope to leukaemia and bone marrow cancer sufferers of all racial backgrounds.
The aim of the ACLT is to raise the required funds to start an independent ACLT Bone Marrow Register that will allow us to undertake world wide donor searches. The ultimate aim of the charity is to be able to fund the testing of the many potential bone marrow donors stepping forward. The Registry will be UK based and working in conjunction with the world bone marrow registers, which will enable the ACLT to coordinate the implementation and planning of raising awareness campaigns within the UK for the under represented communities. We want to start small and as funds start to come in we will grow allowing the register to then recruit greater numbers of potential donors from these under represented groups around the world and in the future have our own laboratories enabling an in-house testing & research facility.
There are many sufferers and their families fighting with tremendous courage and strength. We would like to observe that their battle would not be in vain.
Thank you
Verna Brackett & Janet Onyejekwe – Tel no. 020 8240 4480. info@aclt.org
