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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.53cm;"><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Hello wonderful people.</strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.53cm;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.53cm;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Just because it wasn't awful enough the first time, I have decided to run all 13.1 miles of the Reading Half Marathon again in April.
The cause I am fundraising for is the Royal Berkshire Hospital 'Robbie the robot' appeal.
This is a £1million appeal to help the hospital pay to keep a life saving machine ('Robbie') which has transformed prostate cancer operations at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.53cm;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thanks to everybody's unbelievable generosity, I managed to raise over £500 for the charity last year (£604 inc GiftAid) and would be absolutely thrilled if we could beat that this year!</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.53cm;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is such a worthy charity and any support you can give would be really appreciated! Whether it be £2 or £20, everything helps and means you can feel fabulous knowing that you are a beautiful person making a difference.<br><br> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">If anyone is in further need of persuasion, please consider the following:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.53cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;">-How much would you pay to not run a half marathon in the cold?
<br>-13.1 miles is 2,108,240.64 centimetres.<br> -Donating money to charity means good things happen to you.
<br>-A sandwich in Starbucks is about £4 and doesn't even make you feel warm and special inside.
<br>-The more money I raise the better I will feel about my social status and therefore the faster I will run.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.53cm;"><br><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Thanks so much for any support you can give!<br></span>Lots of love,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.53cm;"><span style="color: #800080;">Liv xxxxx</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.53cm;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">P.S. PLEASE PLEASE ADD GIFT AID ONTO YOUR DONATION: It allows the charity to <span style="color: #1a1a1a;">reclaim basic rate tax on your gift and increases your donation without you having to pay anything more!</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.53cm;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">P.P.S. Here's a bit more information about the 'Robbie' the Robot Appeal for anybody who would like to know more about it:</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.53cm;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The robot provides the latest in state of the art robotic assisted surgery: this allows surgeons to perform radical prostate operations using all the clinical and technical capabilities of traditional open surgery, whilst enabling them to operate through the tiny incisions which characterise ‘keyhole’ surgery.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.46cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;">The Royal Berkshire NHS Trust acquired the da Vinci robot with a down payment from a very generous donation. To complete the purchase and own ‘Robbie’ outright we have to raise £1m over the next three years.</span></span></span></p>
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