At the start of May 2020 we’re organising a worldwide event to raise awareness and money for Emilie’s Charities and we’d like you to get involved.
The Idea: Family, friends and friends of friends from 100 countries (or more!) will run/walk/cycle 5km on the weekend of 2 May 2020. Participants can take part either individually or in a group. Photos and videos leading up to and during the event will be posted to our Facebook page:
To sponsor the event click here:
We’d like to express sincere thanks to everyone who kindly supported Emilie’s Charities in 2017, whether it be by donation, organisation of/sponsorship of/ attendance at an event or other means. Your contributions have made an enormous difference to the lives of the children and young adults supported.
As well as sponsoring a number of children in orphanages around the world, since the charity began in 2005, through our sponsorship, 25 young adults from economically poor countries have gone on to study and receive qualifications and a further 23 are currently continuing with their courses.
Special thanks go this year to Eleanor who ran a second marathon for the benefit of Emilie’s Charities (this time in the mountains of Switzerland!)
(Eleanor with her dad)
and to John and Louise for organising the fantastic Emilie’s Variety Performance
(John and Louise)
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 she raised over £1000 for Emilie’s Charities.
Huge thanks Eleanor!
Eleanor and Dad after the event
On March 13th 2015, Michael Nowicki, Phil Bradburn, and Keith Dean set out to take on the Kent Coastal Challenge. The run took them from Dartford to Hythe over a period of four days – a total of 176.4 gruelling miles (including a total ascent of 7,700ft). They were joined by friends: Andrew Burgess, Graham Perkins, Liam Gibson, Zoe Norman, Sophie Ravenscroft, Sarah Cox, Michael Nicolaides, Simon Roberts, Sarah Doughty, Susie Bradburn, James Lampert, Paul Thompson, and Michael White at various points on the way. Phil and Keith completed the run in the dark on the evening of March 16th (Emilie’s birthday). Unfortunately, Michael couldn’t join them on day four as he twisted his ankle towards the end of day three. We’d like to congratulate all the brave and hardy souls involved and extend special thanks to Michael for organising the event and arranging for sponsorship to go to Emilie’s Charities!
Michael, Phil, Sarah and Keith after day three
Michael heard about Emilie’s Charities at the time of the 2012 Emilie’s Relay and kindly decided to raise money for the charity through some strenuous running!
Michael and friends carried out the strenuous Kent Coastal run (260 miles over 5 days) in March. Quite a feat! Huge thanks to all involved!
Many congratulations to Emilie’s cousin Lucy for successfully running the 2014 London marathon!
Very well done Lucy and thanks so much for doing the run to raise money for Emilie’s Charities!
Note, from the pictures, that Lucy’s running vest seemed to indicate by the end of the race that Lucy had become Emilie’s cleaner!
Before / After :
The Relay, from Edinburgh to London involving over 100 runners running five miles each or more, took place between May 2nd and May 6th 2013 ending at the steps of St Pauls around 3.30pm. Pictures and posts from the whole event can be found on the Emilie’s Relay Facebook page.
To all those involved in this fantastic, wonderful, event: to those who ran a leg (or several!), whether as a panda, reptile, tiger, super hero, leopard, fox, rabbit, cow, bloodhound, fruit, children’s TV character, in other guise, or in civvies, for their energy and efforts; to all the brilliant routemasters for the tremendous work they put in to make everything go smoothly; to everybody who has very kindly sponsored the runners for their generosity; to everybody who has contributed to the Facebook page/Twitter for their support, kind words and good humour; to all those who were able to come to the after-party for their support and top dancing!; to those involved in setting up the website and MyDonate pages; to anybody involved in the event in anyway not covered by the above; and, although already mentioned in every category above(!), very special thanks indeed to the amazing John Ramsay, whose idea it was in the first place and who not only set the whole, military-scale operation in action but also followed the baton down from start to finish and ran over fifty miles in the process. No words are enough to thank you John – you’re simply the best!
There was such a glow about this whole event from start to finish. Emilie would have been so proud of you all.
Once again, our very, very sincere and grateful thanks to everyone involved on behalf of ourselves and all the youngsters who will benefit from your kindness and generosity. Love Martin and Judy (Emilie’s parents)
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 place around Greenwich in September 2010 and was completed in 2hrs 22 minutes, raising over £1,500 for Emilie’s Charities. Polly lives to tell the tale!
Polly after the ordeal (still smiling)
Fundraising activities at St Catherine’s College Oxford (Catz) have included various musical evenings (open mic and Entz), cake sales, a quad marathon and two calendars (inspired by Calendar Girls). Other events organised by Catz students, which have taken place off site have included: a sponsored hitchhike, sponsored skydiving; cricket and football matches involving Catz old boys and many others,
The 2006 Quad Marathon
including a half marathon.
2007 Calendar (April)
A sponsored relay between Edinburgh and London is currently being organised by ex-Catz students (for details click here)
