Emilie’s Relay
A fundraising relay from Edinburgh to London over five days in May 2013.
A fundraising relay from Edinburgh to London over five days in May 2013.
For the past four years Chris Bargate and Paul Adams have arranged an annual cricket match between ex students of St Catherine’s College Oxford (Catz) and the Bourne End Dogs…
Having never completed anything remotely sporting, Polly Liverton decided to train to run a 1/2 marathon and raise money for Emilie’s Charities at the same time. The 1/2 marathon took…
Every two years a picnic, which around 200 people attend, is held in the garden of a house in Shawford. Fortunately the rain stopped in time for the 2012 event…
UNFORTUNATELY, BECAUSE OF THE SITUATION WITH THE CORONAVIRUS WE WILL HAVE TO POSTPONE THE EMILIE’S 5K EVENT SCHEDULED FOR MAY. WE’LL LET YOU KNOW THE NEW DATE WHEN IT IS…
Eleanor Robinson, who was a close friend of Emilie at University, ran the Dublin Marathon on 26th October 2015 for the benefit of Emilie’s Charities. Eleanor’s time was 4.37.55 and…
An annual fundraising event is the ‘Emilie’s Trousers’ ride from Winchester to Oxford (or viceversa) carried out by Emilie’s father around her birthday. In June 2012 a group of ‘real…
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It was a privilege to witness a baton-handover outside my home in Northumberland this summer’s evening, as a stalwart runner finished his 20 mile leg (ouch!) and met his support group/fellow runners.
I went outside to investigate the mysterious appearance of a threesome of well-spoken young people ‘hanging around’ our corner of the A696, where there is nothing to hang around for but trees and fields. Having gone out to offer first aid/tea/ring the police, I was standing with them as a faint light appeared in the distance, wobbling southwards towards us where we stood at the Village’s western boundary. A high-vis vest gradually declared itself, as the waiting group explained about Emilie and the fantastic work being done in her name.
The high-vis jacket morphed into two men with a torch and very tired legs, running (yes, running) into the Village to the enthusiastic applause of three team mates and one bemused but impressed local resident.
Well done, you guys! I hope it’s smooth running all the way to London.
Thank you Kathryn! The organisers, routemasters and runners have done and are doing a great job!