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Screen Solutions night walk raises thousands
Clare, Roger, Nick, Lee, Julie and myself set off from Dursely in Gloucestershire at midnight on Friday 10th June, then proceeded to walk 41 miles (the extra mile was courtesy of my diabolical navigation) across the Cotswolds to Cleeve Hill, in pitch black, over rough terrain and in the rain all to raise money for Action Medical Research. It rained for the first three hours and also for the last four and when I say rain it was like having an outdoor shower!!!! Some of the terrain, in the pitch black and in the wet can only really be described as treacherous. As well as the 41 miles walked, during the event we climbed the equivalent of ascending Ben Nevis which is circa 4500 feet!! To give you a perspective of how hard this event was, our team took 18 hours to complete the Plod vs 16 1/2 hours for a very similar event last year. It was very very hard.
The event organisers did a fantastic job as did our support Crew. It is not an understatement to say without Nick and Lee we would not have been able to get through the event.
Thanks to the fantastic support of our Staff, Customers, Suppliers, Family and Friends we managed to raise an incredible £4600 for which I would like to say a massive thank you on behalf of myself, the team and also on behalf of Action Medical Research.
Associated with Screens Solutions were also three other teams from ‘The Best Connection’, ‘Arnold Laver’ and ‘Metal Contract Management’ and together we hope top raise between £9000 and £10,000.
We all feel very proud and privileged to have taken part in such an event and having done so for such a great cause.
The event was to raise money for a fantastic Children's charity called Action Medical Research. AMR have been behind numerous breakthroughs such as the polio vaccine, ultrasound scanning in pregnancy, and more recently the fetal heart rate monitor a new state-of-the-art device that could help save thousands of at-risk babies.
It is not an exaggeration to say every one of the team have been affected by the research AMR do. Why, we were all born. We take for granted technology, like ultrasound which has saved many many thousand of babies. Before Ultrasound something simple like a cord being wrapped around an unborn babies neck would have been difficult to detect and could have led to death during childbirth. This just would not happen today!!! It was the great work that AMR do that made advances like this possible.
As well as the pioneering research AMR do inventing technology such as Ultrasound and the Fetal Heart Monitor, they also support children facing a life-time of challenges caused by disabilities such as cerebral palsy. They also help children dealing with the impact of disabling conditions like juvenile arthritis, diabetes, epilepsy, stroke and multiple sclerosis and prevent potentially deadly infections like meningitis, septicaemia and pneumonia.
They really are a fantastic charity.
Thank you very much for your support.
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