Charity cycle

Shamanic

Hi All!

A long time lurker here!

Somebody very close to me is doing a charity cycle this year, and with the kind permission of the mods ive been allowed post it up here.

Ill quote the webpage of mycharity with the info;

"Hey Guys,

Thanks for visiting my personal fundraising page. The Temple Street Children’s University Hospital charity is a very worthy cause and I would very much appreciate your support in helping me to raise funds for this charity.

Temple Street Children’s Hospital is one of the major paediatric hospitals catering for children from all over Ireland, and as a teaching hospital, is one of the leading training centres of paediatric nurses and doctors in this country.


-Temple Street Children’s University Hospital provides specialist paediatric care for children from all over Ireland, not just Dublin.

-Over 130,000 patients are cared for every year in Temple Street Children’s University Hospital, over 33% of which are from outside of Dublin.

-With almost 60,000 children attending Accident and Emergency, it is one of the busiest A&E departments in Europe

-Temple Street Hospital is the National Centre for neurological, eye, craniofacial, kidney, airways, ENT, metabolic and genetic disorders in children.

-As the hospital provides increasingly specialised services to the children in its care, the demand on its limited resources grows. The hospital needs to continue to develop specialist skills, introduce new technologies and produce the best possible environment for the children in its care.

This is where you can help-

This September 2010 I am participating in the Cambodia Cycle Challenge for Temple Street Children’s Hospital. This is a 10 day cycling challenge aiming to cover 500km to raise funds for vital Neurosurgery equipment for the hospital.

Temple St Children’s University Hospital is responsible for carrying out all Neurosurgery on neo-natal babies and children up to the age of 6 in Ireland. This also includes the removal of brain tumours in children under 6. Until early 2009 these surgeries were carried out in an adult hospital.

To provide the best treatment for these specialist and complex surgeries, Temple Street Children's University Hospital needs to invest in new equipment for their theatres.

They need to raise over €1.2 million to purchase vital equipment such as a neurosurgical microscope (a specialised microscope for Neurosurgery), a Mayfield head clamp (this is a specialised holder to stabilise the patients head during surgery on the brain) and radiolucent operating tables (this is a specialised table which supports the patient in a desired posture for an operative procedure both during scanning and surgical procedures). All funds raised will go towards this appeal.


As a direct result of a similar funding drive in 2008, the development of a new Cystic Fibrosis & Respiratory out-patient unit is now underway at Temple Street.


If you would like to help towards this very special appeal, you can do so by using the "sponsor me now" button below via credit or debit card. You can be assured that your transaction on the mycharity.ie website is very secure. You will automatically receive an e-mail from me thanking you for your support, and acknowledging the amount of your donation. Any donation no matter how small is hugely appreciated.

Many thanks in advance for your support"

The link to the webpage is
http://www.mycharity.ie/event/fiona_qp_cycle

If we start to get an interest in it, il start a twitter or a blog here with all her progress.

Also if anybody knows any websites or companies that would like to support her, please let me know.

Thanks very much for taking the time to read this x

hynesie

How do these sort of challenges work?
Does all the money fundraised go direct to the charity and then the people taking part pay for flights+accom+expenses out of their own pockets?

Shamanic

yeah everything raised goes directly to the charity

hynesie

Good stuff ... might be worth sticking that up on the charity page.

Shamanic

i think thats only for barretstown?

tho maybe i got that wrong, if the mods could clear that up for me please?

Obviously id like to have this as many places as possible:D