Charity post time - raising money for Great Ormond Street Hospital!
Right, here goes!
A week on Sunday, my missus Jo is running the New York Marathon. She’s doing it to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital, which as you will be well aware, is a very worthwhile charity.
The donation is going towards a new cardiac unit at the hospital, and having recently visited, trust me when I say that the hospital needs all the help it can get!
Ideally, we are trying to raise £2000, and we are already halfway there. As much as this is a begging post and a plea for cash, it is for charity, but I wouldn’t expect people to part with their hard-earned for someone they don’t even know…..so I’ve come up with an idea.
Since you don’t know Jo, but it’s such a worthwhile cause, all I’m asking from Passionford members, is to donate £1 each. If you chose to donate more, then please feel free, but all I need is a hundred members to donate £1 each, and we’ve made an amazing start. No-one will miss £1, even in this economic climate (!), and I’ll bet enough people can spare £1 from their PayPal account.
If you chose to donate, then the best way will be to send your £1 to my PayPal account, so I can amass the donation from PassionFord as a whole and then put it on to her “justgiving” page ( www.justgiving.com/jopagemarathon ) as a donation from my card from all of us as a group. To ensure complete transparency, I’ve given the mods my PayPal log in details so they can see everything is above board.
All I’m asking is for people to spare £1 – until you see it, you have no idea what a tangible difference the money makes to this hospital - saving lives, but also giving those less fortunate a better quality of life too.
I don’t normally do these kind of posts, but things I’ve seen and heard have made me seriously motivated to do what I can, even if it starts with supporting someone else, and tapping up any available resource!
If you want to donate, then can you send £1 to my PayPal which is n9thn@hotmail.com, and include the words GOSH in the title, so I can identify all payments.
Passionford as a community could really make a difference here, even if it just involves raising a few quid, so if you can spare one or two pounds, then please do so!
Thanks in advance..... 
Last edited by Maria.; Oct 24, 2008 at 01:54 PM.