£10k - we did it! THANK YOU!
We've all been a little giddy over the last few days as it's slowly sunk in that we are actually going to Borneo in about 24 hours time :-D
You've helped us beat our target of raising £10,000 and I just wanted to say a massive thank you to every single one of you who has supported us.
Not everyone gets truly life-changing moments (or at least good ones), but this money is going to help create just a few more of them, for individuals who need it the most. Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds will be changed in powerful, positive ways by what they get out of (and put into) Raleigh. That is what we've achieved together, and I think it's an amazing thing!
I'll warn you now, I'm about to go into full "Oscar acceptance speech" mode, but I just need to thank everyone...
(feel free to just skip to your name)
Starting at home, first of all thank you Mum, Dad and Kate - especially for telling everyone about the challenge, and Sadie for being an excellent snow-training assistant. Thanks also to Sheila & Ed and Claire & Brian.
Everyone on the BTC (or ex-BTC): thanks for putting up with our hundreds of e-mails about everything we were doing, and thanks Dave, Will, Shruti, Rich B, Kevin, Henry, Rob, Richard M, Sham, Leon and Laura for your donations.
A special thanks to Jon Mills for giving me the flexibility at work to fit fundraising around my schedule, your great enthusiasm for the more gambling-esque fundraisers and the best bonus I could have received (thanks Gordon Walker, Bob Scott and Greg Hyttenrauch for your parts in that). Thanks also Mark Benton, Judy Kenward and everyone else in Croydon who donated or bought raffle tickets and/or brownies.
Thanks Murray, Tariq, Flor, Declan, Niall, James, Laura, Holly and Julia for your donations to the cause. Thanks Roz for disobeying your rule, and Juliane for pushing it over the £10k!
Thanks Femma for all the re-tweets and re-yams... and anyone else who tweeted / liked messages about our cause.
Drew & Lina - sí, hay helado! :-)
Andreas - thanks for previous jungle adventures, and the tropical fruit-based powdered drinks to get me into the mood!
Thank you to my flatmates Patrick, Charlie, Thom and Susie for encouraging some of the more unconventional fundraising ideas, and putting up with at least six months of me talking of nothing else.
Thank you Aleja for believing in my dream to see monkeys in the wild and making sure I took all my vaccinations ;-)
And thank you to everyone who unleashed their energies on the Treasure Hunts and Sports Day, shouted at the TV at the Race Nights, bought cakes, took part in the Wimbledon Raffle, ran and raised money in the JP Morgan race (especially Assad), or participated in anything else we did!
Of course thanks Dan Maggs, Debra Hay and everyone at Raleigh and BMF for supporting our fundraising and setting up this crazy adventure we're about to embark on!
Finally, a massive, massive thanks to John Gillard, Liz Benison and Julie Fisher for supporting us as the Capgemini Kinabalu Challenge team and believing we could do it. John, thanks for pushing us when we needed it.
Oh, and thanks Ali for being there for the first half of the journey, and being such an outstanding dancing pirate :-)
Right, enough of that - time to go to Borneo!!
I'll be tweeting from the Challenge whenever I can at www.twitter.com/dancunningham (which is re-posted to Facebook and Yammer with the tag #borneo)
(I hope I haven't missed anyone, but please don't be offended if I have, it's been a long journey we do appreciate your support!)
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