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username: LukeBirch Name: Luke Birch Gender: Male |
| Target : £10000 | Total raised : £11279.00 |  |
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| Raised online : £8227.00 | Raised offline : £3052.00 | ||
| These fundraising totals do not include gift aid or transitional relief. | |||
| 1 week, 5 days, 10 hours left to donate | |||
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LUKE SWAM TO FRANCE ON THURSDAY 22ND JULY. HE KEPT GOING IN TOUGH, WINDY CONDITIONS FOR 14HOURS AND 36 MINUTES AND ARRIVED IN THE DARK AT JUST PAST 10PM.
About a year ago, I decided that I would like to swim the channel. People often ask me why, and I have no real idea, of course there are influences, but one day it came into my mind, and never left.
I swam aboput 25 miles in the end due to the tides and currents and the water was 61.7 C. All I wore were my speedos, goggles a hat and some grease. The 20Kg that I have put on in the last 6 months helped too!
It was tough at times, we had a small front come through with rain and winds, and the winds most of the day were higher than we would have liked which meant that I didn't make the Cap Griz Nez (the closest landfall) but had to swim an extra two hours to the beach to the north of it. That was tough when I had already swum 12 hours and it was dark for the last hour or so.
I had warm liquid feeds along with milkyways, jelly babies, bananas to keep me going.
My support boat was amazing and my coach Nick and my swmimming mate, Marty both swam two hour-long slots alongside with me at various times. When we got right into the bay, everybody swam in the last 500 m with me.
People ask me what I thought about. I am not sure to be honest, I just try to concentrate on the swimming - but I go through the words of all the songs I know, or imagine I am walking around London if I find I am having the wrong kind of thoughts.
The swim was the culmination of nearly a year's training with hours and hours in the pool at school and from May onwards I was building up my stamina in the sea at Dover. Before Thursday, the Longest I had ever swum was 6 hours!
Fewer people have swum the channel than climbed Mount Everest, and it is estimated that only about 50 people my age or younger have made it, so if you think I have done well, please dig deep in your pockets to support my charities.
Finally I would like to thank Nick Adams, who has helped me make the possibility possible. He has helped me with my training and so much more. There are very few people who are this kind and helpful and who never ask for anything back, and as I'm sure anyone in the swimming world knows, Nick is one of them.
Sierra Leone is the world's poorest country. There is a desperate need for basic education. PLANTING PROMISE is an amazing charity, working there at grass roots level to provide free schooling and adult education which is funded by the profits from community farms, basic food processing and an internet cafe that have all been set up by the charity. I want to raise money for the new secondary school they are building in Freetown and is due to open later this year. Secondary education is barely catered for in Sierra Leone, and there are long waiting lists even for people who are prepared to pay. Every penny you donate will significantly improve the prospects and opportunities for disadvantaged children in this desperately poor country.
MACMILLAN needs no introduction, everybody will be affected by cancer either directly or a friend or relative. Macmillan is an amazing organisation and brings huge comfort to thousands of people affected by cancer.
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About a year ago, I decided that I would like to swim the channel. People often ask me why, and I have no real idea, of course there are influences, but one day it came into my mind, and never left.
I swam aboput 25 miles in the end due to the tides and currents and the water was 61.7 C. All I wore were my speedos, goggles a hat and some grease. The 20Kg that I have put on in the last 6 months helped too!
It was tough at times, we had a small front come through with rain and winds, and the winds most of the day were higher than we would have liked which meant that I didn't make the Cap Griz Nez (the closest landfall) but had to swim an extra two hours to the beach to the north of it. That was tough when I had already swum 12 hours and it was dark for the last hour or so.
I had warm liquid feeds along with milkyways, jelly babies, bananas to keep me going.
My support boat was amazing and my coach Nick and my swmimming mate, Marty both swam two hour-long slots alongside with me at various times. When we got right into the bay, everybody swam in the last 500 m with me.
People ask me what I thought about. I am not sure to be honest, I just try to concentrate on the swimming - but I go through the words of all the songs I know, or imagine I am walking around London if I find I am having the wrong kind of thoughts.
The swim was the culmination of nearly a year's training with hours and hours in the pool at school and from May onwards I was building up my stamina in the sea at Dover. Before Thursday, the Longest I had ever swum was 6 hours!
Fewer people have swum the channel than climbed Mount Everest, and it is estimated that only about 50 people my age or younger have made it, so if you think I have done well, please dig deep in your pockets to support my charities.
Finally I would like to thank Nick Adams, who has helped me make the possibility possible. He has helped me with my training and so much more. There are very few people who are this kind and helpful and who never ask for anything back, and as I'm sure anyone in the swimming world knows, Nick is one of them.
Sierra Leone is the world's poorest country. There is a desperate need for basic education. PLANTING PROMISE is an amazing charity, working there at grass roots level to provide free schooling and adult education which is funded by the profits from community farms, basic food processing and an internet cafe that have all been set up by the charity. I want to raise money for the new secondary school they are building in Freetown and is due to open later this year. Secondary education is barely catered for in Sierra Leone, and there are long waiting lists even for people who are prepared to pay. Every penny you donate will significantly improve the prospects and opportunities for disadvantaged children in this desperately poor country.
MACMILLAN needs no introduction, everybody will be affected by cancer either directly or a friend or relative. Macmillan is an amazing organisation and brings huge comfort to thousands of people affected by cancer.
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| Name | Date | Donation | Gift Aid | Comment |
| Willises | 26/08/2010 | 50.00 | 0.00 | Epatant! |
| Kara and Richard Gnodde | 12/08/2010 | 100.00 | 28.20 | Well done Luke! |
| Catherine Faulks | 12/08/2010 | 50.00 | 14.10 | We are all so impressed and inspired by your swim. Congratulations! |
| The Macks | 11/08/2010 | 100.00 | 28.20 | A truly amazing achievement! Congratulations! |
| john and prim birch | 10/08/2010 | 200.00 | 56.40 | |
| Lucy Le Fanu | 09/08/2010 | 20.00 | 5.64 | |
| Flavia Ebbisham | 03/08/2010 | 100.00 | 28.20 | |
| Greg & Sara Porter | 30/07/2010 | 100.00 | 0.00 | |
| John and Rosie Burke | 29/07/2010 | 20.00 | 5.64 | Well done Luke. Amazing effort. |
| simon bound | 29/07/2010 | 50.00 | 14.10 | well done Luke - outstanding effort - |
| 11279.00 | 1582.02 | |||
| Funds Raised | 12861.02 | |||