Places available for Brighton Marathon

Hey there everyone,

My name is Edward Berry, I am a Emergency Department Doctor in South Devon and I run a charity called Project Paria with a fellow Doctor, Jonathon Fitzsimon a GP from Somerset. I have been told that you have some interest in running the Brighton marathon for us? We would love you to run for us and are absolutely negotiable on the pledge levels! Here are some details:

1) The charity: We are Project Paria and we're a charity that raises money for a rural Bolivean Community in Paria. It's an extremely poor region and the chairty raises money primarily for a Diabetes clinic that we have set up and run, and paying for underprivaledged but bright Boliveans to attend university (which is a luxury that would otherwise be beyond their means). Our website is www.projectparia.com

2) Marathon: April 15th in Brighton.

3) Registration: Online, takes a few minutes via an online registration portal. The places are provided sports drink company which is sponsoring the marathon and has provided our spaces.

We are asking runners to donate £50 up front to cover the costs of registration, reception after the race (which is the formal race organiser's tent with the possibilty of some running celebrities in attendance), a few race memorabilia pieces and a racing vest (as well as physio/massuese etc!). This can be paid at the charity website (www.projectparia.com) if you put your name (surname preferentially) and 'marathon' in the payment info box, we will pay the money on to the charity place.

4) The pledge: We are asking runners to attempt to raise £500 to our charity. We are currently setting up Project Paria on www.justgiving.com to help with fundraising. We are aware that other charities ask their runners to sign pledge contracts etc to ensure their donations meet the mark. We are a significantly more relaxed and if you are able to reply to this email acknowledging that you are aware of the pledge target and intend to do your best then we would be very happy with that! Please do not be put off by the 500 pound pedge target, we have plenty of places and are very happy to significantly lower our pledges if required!

5) Other runners - If you know any friends who fancy running with us so if you they're keen will you give them my number or email address and ask them to contact me, we've still got places and would love runners.

Finally, thanks very much, we really appreciate your help raising money and your bravery for running it! Let us know if you have any problems training or any questions and we'll do our very best to help!

Yours sincerely,

Ed

p.s. This is sent via my sisters account, for more information feel free to pm her!