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Premier Support SDBTT and the Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign

On 21st October 2007, Adrian Clark, Tim Ives, Jim Huggins and Paul Wilkin took part in Walk Around the World", as part of International Brain Tumour Awareness Week; a global event, organised by the International Brain Tumour Alliance. The target is for volunteers, from across the globe, to take part in sponsored walks totalling 24,901 miles, which is the circumference of the earth at the equator.

Our small contribution was to walk 42 miles, overnight, from Oxted to Farnham, along the North Downs Way. Towards the end of our walk, we were joined by Emma Dunnett, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour in November 2006, and has undergone surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment at the Royal Marsden Hospital. A few of Emma's friends also joined us for the final 10 miles, making up a total contribution of 212 miles to this great cause.

Emma's Appeal was launched in March 2007, the first event involved Adrian and Jim "running" in the Reading Half Marathon.

On 11th May, the inaugural running of the "Emma's Appeal Stakes" took place at Wimbledon Dog Track.

3 PEAKS, 5 FREAKS - On 1st June 2007, Adrian, Jim, Tim and Paul were joined by Chris Higgins and undertook the "3 peaks challenge". This gruelling challenge involved reaching the summit of the highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales, all in a 24 hour period - including travelling approx 500 miles between them.

These events raised a combined total in excess of £17,000.00, which was split, at Emma’s request, between the SDBTT and the Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign.

1 June 2007