Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
October 19, 2025, 09:21:22 am

Login with username, password and session length

Links


Join the VSC


FSA logo

Author Topic: Raising money for Firefly  (Read 1681 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

DaveDRFC

  • VSC Member
  • Posts: 2002
Raising money for Firefly
« on July 23, 2016, 10:55:10 am by DaveDRFC »
For the last few months I have been doing some volunteer driving for Firefly, a brilliant local charity who provide transport for patients from Doncaster and the surrounding areas to Sheffield for cancer treatment at Weston Park and other hospitals. I know plenty of people on here know all about Firefly and have perhaps unfortunately even had to take advantage of the service, but if anyone wants to know more there is info on their Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/FireflyCIC/.

Due to starting a new job in August I won't be able to drive for Firefly anymore so I have decided to help them out by trying to raise a bit of money. I will be doing the Sundowner Middle Distance Triathlon in Allerthorpe near York on Saturday 3rd September, this is a half iron distance race of 1.9 mile open water swim, 56 mile bike, 13.1 mile run. This will be quite a challenge as I'm not as fit as I was!

I would really appreciate if if you could spare anything and sponsor me at https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/davidburkittfirefly. Thanks very much!



(want to hide these ads? Join the VSC today!)

roversontheup

  • VSC Member
  • Posts: 1691
Re: Raising money for Firefly
« Reply #1 on July 23, 2016, 01:13:42 pm by roversontheup »
Ive made a donation via the link Dave. Good luck with this. It's a great charity to raise money for and one I hope I never need to use.

Dagenham Rover

  • VSC Member
  • Posts: 7100
Re: Raising money for Firefly
« Reply #2 on August 14, 2016, 04:38:42 pm by Dagenham Rover »
Bump             and me  a great cause

DaveDRFC

  • VSC Member
  • Posts: 2002
Re: Raising money for Firefly
« Reply #3 on August 15, 2016, 06:43:10 pm by DaveDRFC »
Thanks very much, also thanks to The Red Baron for donating his alliance tickets for the Cambridge game to Firefly. They are going to a good cause.

The Red Baron

  • VSC Member
  • Posts: 16295
Re: Raising money for Firefly
« Reply #4 on August 17, 2016, 11:53:40 am by The Red Baron »
Hope your friends enjoyed the game last night Dave.

DaveDRFC

  • VSC Member
  • Posts: 2002
Re: Raising money for Firefly
« Reply #5 on August 31, 2016, 01:51:59 pm by DaveDRFC »
The tickets were much appreciated, thanks very much.

Just giving this a bit of a bump as the race is on Saturday if anyone is feeling generous!

DaveDRFC

  • VSC Member
  • Posts: 2002
Re: Raising money for Firefly
« Reply #6 on September 04, 2016, 04:04:31 pm by DaveDRFC »
Unfortunately had my first ever Did Not Finish yesterday. Had a pretty good swim and a decent first half of the bike to then get 2 punctures in quick succession and not have enough spares to fix the second one. So had to call it a day after 38 miles of the bike. Sorry to everyone who sponsored me, but your donations will still help Firefly continue doing great things. The triathlon gods were not smiling on me!!

Dagenham Rover

  • VSC Member
  • Posts: 7100
Re: Raising money for Firefly
« Reply #7 on September 04, 2016, 05:03:10 pm by Dagenham Rover »
 Unlucky but not to worry theres always next time and as you said Firefly wins no matter what

 

TinyPortal © 2005-2012