Sunday 6th June 2010
Put your best foot forward, and walk with us to help raise funds to help over 1000 local people.
It's our 20th birthday year and far from being over the hills, we're asking you to take to the hills as you
enter the Weston Mercury Mendip Challenge 2010!
An exciting sponsored walk for those looking to have fun, challenge themselves and raise funds for Weston Hospicecare.
The three routes (plus 5 mile fun walk) are open to all individuals, families and children who'd like to get their walking
boots on, and hiking for a good cause.
The shortest route, a 5 mile Fun Walk, leaves Uphill beach and snakes to Weston-super-Mare beach.
This year's fancy dress theme is BIRTHDAY PARTY and judges will be on hand to award top prizes
for the best costumes.
For those looking to challenge themselves on the 10 or 20 mile courses, we have the most exhilarating
routes to make this the best challenge yet. Walking along the West Mendip Way's most beautiful treasures you'll be
earning every sip of your hot drink at the celebratory after party.
The biggy, the 30 miler - this is the ultimate challenge. The most enthusiastic of walkers will begin in Wells and continue
to Uphill taking in the full length of the route, plodding through puddles, climbing over contours and heaving over
hurdles as you take on your biggest challenge yet.
Go the extra mile for us in 2010. An additional (optional) 1 mile
has been added onto all four courses (excluding funwalk) as we ask, can you GO THE EXTRA MILE for us in our
20th birthday year?
Why we need your support
By taking part on your challenge and raising sponsorship for others you'll be helping change
the lives of the 1000 people we help every year living with a life limiting illness. For every £20
you raise you will be keeping someone pain free for a whole day. If you can raise £600 get ready to
feel incredible knowing that your efforts have kept the whole of the Inpatients Unit pain free for an
entire month or paid for 10 people to participate in our Day Hospice session. You will be adding lives
to days, when days cannot be added to lives.
Your sponsorship really does make a difference, and here's how:
- £5 will pay for a meal for a Day Hospice patient to be in a fun, supportive and constructive atmosphere where there needs can be assessed and issues worked on by trained professionals
- £100 could pay for a community nurse to make 3 visits to a patient in their own home, helping with pain relief, anxiety issues and concerns over their illness
- £600 could pay for the whole of our In-Patients Unit to be pain free for an entire month
- £1000 could pay for a syringe driver to administer drugs to those in discomfort and pain
- £5000 could pay for a specialist air mattress for our In- Patients Unit allowing patients to be kept in the nest possible and most comfortable care they can possibly get.
The provision of bereavement and spiritual support are also at the centre of what we offer to our patients
and their families. It costs a similar figure to provide this care as the roles of our Community
Palliative Nurses.
To register for the Mendip Challenge 2010, please click here.
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