London to Auckland

Now that I have your attention (and especially Barrie’s) and my blog readership stats have skyrocketed, I am going to come clean and say that the truth has been stretched somewhat in the blog title. In fact, your leg has been pulled so hard that it will probably hurt quite a bit in the morning.

But persevere please as I have an important message for you. We need your help.

We need assistance in two areas.

1. 1. We need donations to our cancer charity partners to help them in the fight against cancer. This is easy to do through our website at: http://london-sydney.com/donate-local.htm You can donate through this link directly to our partners and in most cases get a tax deductible receipt. Any donor donating $1,000 Aussie dollars or more, or the equivalent in another currency can name one of the hundred or so legs of the ride after a cancer victim or in support of someone battling cancer. Each day on the ride we will make mention of the ‘person of the day’. Just email me if you do this so we can get the details up on our site.
2. 2. We need your donations to help fund the expenses of the ride so we can get our message out there and assist our partners in raising funds. You can do this using PayPal or a credit card at: http://london-sydney.com/donate-ultimateride.htm Anyone who donates $20 Aussie dollars or more will be emailed a sequentially numbered certificate for a specific nautical mile of the ride from 1-17,000. Your donation will only be used for absolutely necessary operational expenses such as fuel etc. In the unlikely event that the ride becomes overfunded by donations and sponsors the excess will be donated to cancer research.

If you think back you will remember having met wonderful people in your lives who have nothing, but will still give you the shirt off their back or have done well and now want to give something back. The guy who stops to give you a ride when your car breaks down, a family that is so poor they have to buy used toothbrushes on EBay, but still do charity work for others, and the guy next door who is on five committees and three trust boards to name but a few. These people are all out there and they are what keep communities going. They all have one thing in common. They have all discovered that giving is more satisfying than receiving.

Most, if not all of you, already know this and are the lucky ones. Giving is the real answer to happiness and fulfillment, not accumulating assets as some are want to do. So please give generously and help save some lives. We all know people affected by cancer. It’s just not good enough to say “it won’t happen to me”, let’s work together to stamp out this vicious disease. Donate now.

Yours in the battle,

Jeremy