Sponsored Triathlon 

Raising Money for Hope & Homes for Children 

  

On Sunday 2^nd October 2011 I shall be attempting to complete my sixth sprint triathlon to raise funds for Hope and Homes for Children.  

 

The triathlon will be no easy feat – a 400m swim followed by a 20km cycle and a 5km run. My best overall time to date was achieved in 2008, in 1 hour 7 minutes, when I finished 22^nd out of 151 competitors. I raised over £2,000, a sum which was generously matched by St. James’s Place Wealth Management Group, and I shall of course be striving to improve on both my times and fund raising in 2011.

 

Hope and Homes for Children is a charity that is making a real difference to the lives of vulnerable children and families across Central and Eastern Europe and Africa by working with them to ensure that children grow up in an environment where they have the opportunity to fulfil their potential. They move children out of institutions into family-based care, help keep together families at risk of breakdown due to the pressures of poverty, disease or conflict, and work to prevent child abandonment.

 Please visit their website www.homeandhomes.org.

 

To date this triathlon has raised over £1.1 million for the work of Hope and Homes for Children and this year I have pledged to raise £2,500 towards their work and would like to ask you for your support. It would be really great if you were able to sponsor me - just £10 could bring a smile to two children’s faces by providing them with their first toy; £25 could enable us to send two children to school; £50 could give a group of children their first set of new clothes and £100 could enable us to train a volunteer to provide day-today support for child-headed households in Africa.

 

If you would like to offer your support, by sponsorship or any other way, I would be immensely grateful. 

  

Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this letter.  Your support is greatly appreciated.

 

 

Kind regards

Simon