Hi Everyone – breaking my silence at last!! I’ve been keen to tell you what a fantastic lot you are and how much you have raised but have delayed because I was hoping it would be special. You may recall before the event I said we needed £106,800 to bring the grand total in the ten “Macs” to £3/4M!!
Well it didn’t seem too promising when the total at the time of the event had ‘only’ reached £72K – still a great total for Macmillan but not when we were hoping for £106.8K. To bring you up to date there are currently 10 teams who haven’t yet reached the £600 target and 2 who haven’t paid in anything – including in one case the insurance money too so it’s just as well they caused no damage!! If all those teams came up to £600 it would put another £3,500 into the kitty – some of them have been in touch and I know their sponsorship will come in later. In addition there is a fair discrepancy between the amount some teams have shown as ‘raised offline’ on their Justgiving pages and the amount they have so far sent to me – that totals another £3K so we potentially have a further £6.5K to come in yet – if everyone ‘pays up’, which I really do hope they will.
That detail, however, was eclipsed on my birthday – when next year’s Entry Forms became available - by several cheques which came for 2011 reducing the deficit to those figures shown above BUT which, also, brought the current total to £107K – so the year of 2011 – our Tenth Mac and Macmillan’s centenary - has become the year that took the grand total to £3/4M. Well done everyone in achieving such a fantastic amount – I do appreciate just how much work it has meant to so many and thank you on behalf of Macmillan for achieving such a total. To those who are included in the deficit above I hope this will be the incentive you need to send in your sponsorship to add to this year’s fabulous total.
Onwards and upwards into the Olympic Mac – the post on Saturday was beaten by one ‘anonymous’ personal delivery of two entry forms before 06.45. Then ‘Postie Dave’ (Team 36 in 2010!), before 0900 as some of the entries were “Before 0900” deliveries, brought enough for us to be over half full for 2012 and I’m expecting a big postbag tomorrow - which on past showing will take us into a reserve list. If you put in your forms, (and cheques!), I’ll let you know team numbers as soon as I can confirm your place. If you haven’t yet raised this year’s money and put in a form please let me know the situation regarding this year’s money to help me make decisions if we are oversubscribed.
Once again WELL DONE MAC 2011 – you have taken the event to another level – now the target is £1M !!!!
Hope to see those of you entering in 2012 – in the meantime all drive carefully and enjoy life! Cheers - Peter