Chris Irvine
1 Million Steps (to work and back)
Fundraising for DSRF-UK
Story
<p><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;">Since 31 October Chris Irvine & Anthony Walters have been commuting to work & back around London by foot. </span></p>
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<div style="mso-line-spacing: '-128 0 -112'; mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1;"><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;">The aim is to raise money in support of two chosen charities: </span></div>
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<div style="mso-line-spacing: '-128 0 -112'; mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1;"><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;"><strong>Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital</strong></span><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;"> and the </span><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;"><strong>Down’s Syndrome Association. </strong></span></div>
<div style="mso-line-spacing: '-128 0 -112'; mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1;"><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;"><strong> </strong></span></div>
<div style="mso-line-spacing: '-128 0 -112'; mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1;"><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;">It was decided that walking itself wasn’t tough enough so they decided to do it in the Winter. </span></div>
<div style="mso-line-spacing: '-128 0 -112'; mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1;"><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;">Also means getting up an hour earlier and returning home an hour later than normal. </span></div>
<div style="mso-line-spacing: '-128 0 -112'; mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1;"><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;"> </span></div>
<div style="mso-line-spacing: '-128 0 -112'; mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1;"><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;">Up until Christmas 2011 they had completed <span style="color: #000000;"> </span><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;">520,000 steps. </span></span></div>
<div style="mso-line-spacing: '-128 0 -112'; mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1;"><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;"><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="mso-line-spacing: '-128 0 -112'; mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1;"><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;"><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;">So please dig deep and please give as much as you can afford. </span></span></div>
<div style="mso-line-spacing: '-128 0 -112'; mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1;"><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;"><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="mso-line-spacing: '-128 0 -112'; mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1;"><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;"><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;">Thank you </span></span></div>
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<div style="mso-line-spacing: '-128 0 -112'; mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1;"><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;"><span style="color: #005172; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 4;">Chris</span></span></div>
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