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Sponsorship Support

A percentage of profits made from Worth Society is paid over to the Worthians Charitable Trust (registered charity number 1084948) which helps to fund a number of charitable initiatives, including the Global Action Awards and the School Bursaries Fund.

And Worth Society is always delighted to consider individual applications for sponsorship from Worthians who are participating in events for good causes.

During 2011 we sponsored :

  • Mathew Burnford (StB’77) who cycled 850 miles from Gloucestershire to Montpellier in France, raising £300,000 to fund a new post to join the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit at King’s College, London
  • Andy Carroll (R’81) who, with the Fireflies, cycled 2,000km in 14 days to successfully complete their £1,000,000 fundraising target in aid of Leuka
  • Tim Davies (C’10) and Will Brenninkmeyer (StB’10) who completed the ascent and descent of Mont Blanc in a single day, raising £615 for Lupus UK and the Alzheimer’s Society
  • Giles Heather (F’03) who ran both the London and the Brighton Marathons in the same week to raise £2,800 for the Lymphoma Association
  • Dani Jeyes (StM’10) who chose to ‘Climb Kili for Kids’ as part of a charity project being run at Nottingham University.  She raised £2,552 for Childreach International
  • Mickey Morrissey (R’77) who completed the Edinburgh Marathon with his son, Hugo, raising £5,000 for The Irish Guards Appeal and WellChild
  • Fraser Moyle (R’08) who completed his second London Marathon, raising £1,000 for CLIC Sargent.

You can read more about their individual exploits here in 2011 Sponsorship Support.

And, in 2010, among other Worthians, we were delighted to sponsor Ollie (StB’98) Sam (C’97) Barnett who pushed themselves to the very limits of human endurance by participating in the Marathon des Sables in aid of Take Heart India, an education and development chairty based in India which is run by one of their friends.  You can read all about their  (painful!) experiences here, in Seven Days of Torture - an article that featured in the 09/10 issue of The Blue Paper.

If you would like to know more, or are interested in applying for sponsorship support, then please do get in touch with Olivia Henley at worthsociety@worth.org.uk.