Meeting with LOROS

Yesterday I found myself with a great opportunity to go and visit LOROS, located between New Parks and Beaumont Leys in Leicester. There, I had a very useful talk with one of their fundraising staff, Nancy, who gave me some advice on what I was doing and what else I could be doing. Certainly it helped to know what routes were available to me for fundraising and promoting the trip, and I shall be looking into those and seeing whether they bear fruit over the next few weeks.

One thing that is for certain is that we should be able to get our photograph (taken at the weekend) into the LOROS magazine. Which reminds me, it's still on the camera and not on the computer. Must see to that as a priority.

But what I really got out of the visit was more of a feel for what LOROS do. For those who don't know, they offer services to the terminally ill and their families - both very sad but inspiring work, the kind of thing that restores one's faith in human nature. Certainly it drummed home how any money that we can raise for them will be very well worth it.

Accommodation

Finally some good news!

I have accommodation booked at the Glen Nevis Youth Hostel. So, although I'm not sure how we're going to get there yet, at least we know we have beds and a roof when we do. Now all I have to do is pay for it. Very soon. Needless to say, the call has gone out to the rest of the climbing party to get their money in...

Incidentally, much of the climbing party (including myself) competed in a football tournament over the weekend, this one to raise money for Sport Relief. Yep, we're all veritable money-raising machines! You'll notice that I don't put here how we did in the football tournament. This is because it would distract from the serious issue of the Ben Nevis climb.
Yes, I'll go with that...

New Site

Not a site as in a location that I'm hiking to, but a web-site! (See what I did there? Never mind.)

This one is a rather important one though, as it's where I'll be taking online donations for the trip. After much procrastinating, I set it up today:

http://www.justgiving.com/TheFoxesOfNevis

JustGiving works simply by having people pledge their money through the links provided; it then tells us how much we've raised and gives that money straight to the charity. As various TV meerkats would say: Simples!

As such, I invite and encourage you and all readers of this blog to visit this page, which also has a link to LOROS so that you can see what they're all about and the work that they do. You'll see that it is indeed a very worthwhile cause.

Many thanks!