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Salvation army Christmas dinner run!

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Hi all, in years past the salvation army advertised the cost of providing a homeless person with a Christmas dinner, been trying to find out this cost but as yet to no avail ( I have now emailed the sally to ask)

OK well as yet the furthest I have run is 7k (today) but what I am thinking is that once I find out the cost of a dinner I am going to run my own 10k Christmas dinner run and get a few local folk to sponsor me the cost of a dinner

I am wondering if a few of you would fancy doing this yourselves or even 5k, just think how many Christmas dinners we could provide.

Of course this would be a virtual run with no medals or tee shirts etc BUT you would have the pleasure of knowing you've helped

thanks in advance , rolysmate, aka pocket rocket aka Paul John Walker

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Sadeskin profile image
SadeskinGraduate

How exactly does it work? X

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rolysmateGraduate in reply to Sadeskin

I will set myself a date and ask a number of local folk/business to sponsor me for doing that run, I'll ask them to sponsor to the cost of providing a dinner.

A number of people have already pledged to sponsor me and then I amount raised I will forward to the salvation army.

I just think anything we can do as individuals to help can't be a bad thing and it's motivation to run

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Shelby1973Graduate

Hiya I’ve signed up for the Christmas snowflake virtual 5k in which the profit enables one homeless person to eat a Xmas meal . It’s not much but a little touch . Good luck x

rolysmate profile image
rolysmateGraduate in reply to Shelby1973

no that's fantastic, well done

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Martin_RoseGraduate

What a fantastic idea, count me in, keep us posted on the details.

rolysmate profile image
rolysmateGraduate in reply to Martin_Rose

will do

TJMazz profile image
TJMazzGraduate

What a lovely idea 😀

Mummycav profile image
MummycavAdministratorGraduate

I was brought up in the Salvation Army...& proud of that x

Elfe5 profile image
Elfe5Graduate in reply to Mummycav

So you should be Mummy cav - I am endlessly impressed by them. 😀

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Elfe5Graduate

So you should be Mummycav, I am endlessly impressed by them. 😃

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Elfe5Graduate in reply to Elfe5

Ha, technology fail - but a good thing to say twice!!😃

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MummycavAdministratorGraduate in reply to Elfe5

😆

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