lunes, 31 de agosto de 2009

Thank you for your support!

A big thank you to Victoria Wren - freelance grafic designer - for updating our website and publicity free of charge once again. Thanks Victoria. Hire her for freelance - www.whangdoodleland.com

We would also like to thank Kings Property Management for covering the printing costs of our publicity posters and flyers. Kings are also offering special deals on their apartment rentals for the date of the walk so if you are in the UK and want to join us check out the special offers at http://www.kingspropertymanagement.com/page30/page30.php

We would also like to thank Digital Copisteria for providing their services at cost price.

We have our first entries!

The first participant is Pamela Steele. A big thank you to Pam for distributing our posters yesterday at the English church service.

Come on ladies...last year we were 77 lets make it more this year!!

Entry time already!

August is now almost over and the 1st September is here already. Dowload you entry details from the website and register for the walk from tomorrow. You can pay your money direct into the bank account or you can pay in cash at the Kings Property Management office. Once you have completed your form and paid your entry fee of just 10 euros then you can collect your T-shirt from the Tourist information office in Estartit or from the Kings Property Management Office (C/ Freu - under the Blau Mar apartment complex). If you took part last year and still have your t-shirt you can reuse it (as I will be doing) any extra t-shirts we have we will sell them on the day of the walk with the money going to the charity.

Also on the day we are going to have a balloon lauch. My 6 year old daughter Ellie came up with the name "balloons to heaven". We will have a selection of helium filled balloons in the different colours of all the different cancer charities. You can make a donation for the balloon and write the name of your loved one lost to the diesease. We will then launch all the balloons together after the walk.

Does anyone know where we can get helium from in the local area????????

Remember we need people to help with stalls on the day so get in touch if you are interested!

jueves, 27 de agosto de 2009

Cancer research UK

If you want to sponsor someone who is taking part in the walk or if you want someone to sponsor you then you can use the easy online sponsor site ww.justgiving.com/walkforlifecostabrava2009 .The funds go directly to Cancer Research UK and you can leave a message for the person that you are sponsoring.

Lets hope that our friends and family are as generous as last year!

lunes, 24 de agosto de 2009

Not long to go....action stations ladies!

Well not long until the second walk for life costa Brava. Can you believe it is almost a year since the last one? Where does the time go?

What's new for this year? Well... a couple of things firstly the charity that we are supporting here is Catalunya. We have decided to donate the money raised to El fundació onocolliga Girona. This charity supports and helps those fighting cancer and their families here in the province of Girona. They help in many many ways from offering practical help with things like wheelchairs and beds for those who are ill, they offer help around the home, they have two apartments next to the Josep Trueta hospital in Girona which ralatives can use to sleep, rest, cook etc. when visiting family members in hospital. They also offer pysiotherapy and counciling, limfatic drainage and they also run educational programmes teaching the youger generation how to prevent cancer. For more information on this charity you can visit their website http://www.onocolligagirona.com/

The second change is the walking route. This year we have two routes - on the same as last year 5km and the second a longer route (which is an added approx. 2 km to the original course). You can choose the route you prefer.

Oh yes and we have also decided to reduce the entry fee - we have all been affected by the "Crisis" or "Credit crunch" so we hope this will encourage more people to join us.

Once again we plan to have "fete" style stalls at the finish of the course so WE NEED YOU! If you would like to have a stall (cakes, books, toys, nik naks, etc..) please contatc us and we will reserve you a place. REMEMBER that the monies you take must be donated to the event.

We also need everyone to spread the word about the event. With out the resident magazine it is a little more difficult to get the word out. If any one would like some posters or flyers please let us know and we would be very happy to give you some to put up and around the province.

Walk for life costa Brava 2008

Here are some photos from our event last year. we are hoping that this year will be as successful as last year. We had 76 ladies, 1 man in drag and a dog take part in the 5km walk last year so with a bit of luck we can match or beat that number this year.