Chris Read
Chris Read
Fundraising for Wipe Away Those Tears
Story
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #333399; font-family: Arial;">Thank you for visiting my JustGiving page. I am running the Royal Parks Half Marathon on 07 October 2012 to help raise funds for a charity called Wipe Away Those Tears. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #333399; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #333399; font-family: Arial;">Wipe Away Those Tears is my chosen charity as it is a local Essex Charity that helps local Essex children. They have very kindly offered to help a little four year old boy called George, who is my son's dear friend. George has a sensory processing disorder (SPD) which is a complex neurological disorder. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Help is not available on the NHS as the budget has been cut. Treatment is only available privately. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #333399; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">HOW YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #333399; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #333399; font-family: Arial;">Help me to help others by sponsoring me, and together we can raise funds for Wipe Away Those Tears so they can help George and other local Essex children with a disability or a terminal illness. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #333399; font-family: Arial;">Every pound really does counts as WIPE AWAY THOSE TEARS has no overheads or administration costs, every penny that is raised goes towards helping very special children from the local area.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #333399; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">WHY EARLY TREATMENT IS IMPORTANT FOR KIDS WITH SPD:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #333399; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #333399; font-family: Arial;">There is a golden window of opportunity with children between the ages of four and seven when the immature brains of younger children are more “plastic” which enables the brain to modify or “re-wire” itself.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #333399; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">SPD - SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER – WHAT IS IT?</span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #333399; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #333399; font-family: Arial;">Sensory processing is a term that refers to the way the nervous system receives sensory messages and turns them into responses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of us are born with the ability to receive sensory messages and organise them effortlessly. Children who suffer from a sensory processing disorder experience sensory sensations differently because they cannot process the information the way other children do, and things which other kids can do effortlessly are a daily struggle. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #333399; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #333399; font-family: Arial;">Thanking you in advance for any support you give to this amazing charity.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #333399; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</span></em></p>
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