Its the time again - Jamies Run, The East Coast East run will take place on Monday 5th April
Occupying its usual Easter Monday Slot.

Route yet to be confirmed , Just thought we'd give people advance warning of the date, make a note in your diaries & let people from other forums know too

Charity for This run ?? Any suggestions?

Perhaps unless theres a runaway winner we can put it to a vote in January , Post your ideas here

Cats Protection

Quidenham Childrens Hospice

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Thats not very nice!



Lucky's escape
By Southend & District Branch Lucky came into the care of our Southend & District Branch after she had been disposed of in a black rubbish bag. She was saved from certain death by two schoolgirls who spotted the bag next to a rubbish chute in a block of flats.

Cassie Solomon and Abbie Brown were getting rid of some rubbish on the eighth floor of the block when they spotted something moving in a black sack. Despite their nervousness they opened the bag to find a tiny black kitten. The girls took the kitten to branch volunteer, Julie Lamb, who immediately gave Lucky her name and took her into her care.

Lucky was only nine weeks old at the time and was quite understandably nervous; the trauma of being literally thrown away had obviously affected her a great deal. Happily, Lucky responded well to Julie's care and attention and recently found the perfect new home where she can enjoy a happy life with her sad start now firmly behind her.

Can we keep on topic please

children with cancer please

as for the pussy they have enough power as it is
sorry Mark off topic

Well if the poor little kitties cant have it, then I would like to put forward

The Samaritains I know it was the first charity for Jamies Run, but following Chris last year, perhaps we could donate to them again?

Macmillan or other cancer related and British Heart Foundation would be my favourites as charities

British Heart Foundation or a Cancer related charity is good with me.

blimey just realised you two agreed on somethink

yas brian i agree

personaly Macmillan... but The Samaritains is also a very good choice!

im in two minds on this one, do you give to a huge organisation who have a lot of donations and people recognise or an organisation who is smaller who needs money desperately, i cant decide but im swaying towards Cancer/McMillan/Samaritans sorry but i cant commit to just one charity.

The children at the hospice are there for many terminal conditions including cancer....

And most children love MINI's.............

I like the idea of a local charity for the ECMC area. and that hospice seems a great place to start.

Nicci, can you stick a poll in so we can put it the vote during december ? say between

Macmillan, Samaritans & the childrens hospice

i'm for a local ECMC charity as the national ones have plenty of support,....... plus we could pinch the idea of parking up at local shopping centre to collect for charity and recruit new ECMC members

We might also be able to run over to the hospice with a couple of mini's to present the money.

that sounds like the real deal to me lets go for it

Like we did with the money for Bury hospital, get the local paper there an all

blimey that genius like that idea a lot, collecting for charity and advertising the club, i would give up a saturday/sunday to collect money for charity and speak to new recruites

I tried the shopping centre thing last year and got permission but only the day before the run. It would only need 2 or 3 cars and you can collect money with the centre managers permission but only in sealed and labelled containers. I think a more nationally recognised charity would be better than a local charity because people in essex etc might not understand fully where their money is going if it is a local charity in norfolk for example

Why not then just promote the club in other regions and use flyers to advertise the run/charity and try n find a shopping centre or retail park (s) in Norfolk for fundraising itself

i wouldnt know any contacts but chaplefield shopping centre has a large open space for such things its the direct thoro fare through the shopping centre....would be a good spot

We cant make it now, Saffie cant get the day off and nobody will swap with her at work, sorry guys

And we might not be able to do the gumball rally on the 11th of april, again saffie might not be able to get the day off!

Tom, you are allowed to come on your own

Come on, you know you wanna