Linda McCracken
Linda's Hot to Trot Firewalk
Fundraising for Who Cares? Scotland
Story
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 19px;">Helloooo there!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: 14.25pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Thank you for visiting my Who Cares? Scotland fundraising page, soooo <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">glad you’ve made it but don’t stop there ohhhh noooo …<br> </span></span><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Read my wee story below and at the end of it I hope you will be more than happy to make a contribution – <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> whether it be 50p, £5, £10, or how ever much you can give - to help ensure that the valuable work of Who Cares? Scotland continues for a very long time to come.</span></span><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; color: blue; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &amp;amp;amp; color: blue; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I’m taking part in a<strong><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: #ff6600;"> <span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></span></span></strong></span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">hot! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hot! </span></span></span></span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp;">HOT</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding: 0cm; border: 1pt none windowtext;">!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">!!</span></span></span><span style="color: #993300;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span><strong style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: #ff0000;">Firewalk</span></span></span></strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; color: blue; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 0cm; border: 1pt none windowtext;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; color: blue;">for Who Cares? Scotland on Friday 18 May at Firhill training ground on Hope hill Road in Glasgow and ohhhh yes there will be firemen woo hoo :o)). I’m shorter than most of my work buddies ergo closer to the flames and my feet are toaty too which means I’ll have further than most to walk…Quite a scary prospect if truth be told and not just for me but for those of you who will be in the vicinity of my wee odorous feet (my Joe will vouch for that).</span></span><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: blue; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">We’re only a small charity and with your valued contribution we can</span><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> make sure that the voices of young people in care continue to be heard and that looked after young people have the life chances made available so they can reach their full potential.<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span> </span>Our amazingly dedicated team of advocates speak on behalf of young people in care <span style="color: #0000ff;">or support them to have the confidence to speak for themselves.</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></span><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">We provid<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">e </span></span><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">support</span></span></span><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></span><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">and advice to young people while they are in care and when they move on to independent living.<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span>We rigorously campaign for improvements in care provision for young people to key decision makers. Who Cares? Scotland undertakes this crucial role in making sure that we as a society look after our most vulnerable young people to the best of our ability. </span></span></span><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><br></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 0cm; border: 1pt none windowtext;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; color: blue; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; color: blue;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Every single penny raised really does count and is greatly appreciated and online donation amounts can be made anonymous.<span> </span>If you don’t like doing the online thing just give me a </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #0000ff;">shout as I have sponsorship forms!</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; color: black;"> </span></p>
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