Deca-Jayden
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Hello - My name is Kate Jayden and I'm an endurance athlete from Manchester. I've raised around £30,000 for charity over the years since 2011 and have found myself taking on bigger and bigger challenges. It started with a marathon, then ultra marathons, multi day events and ironman triathlons. This year I qualified for the World Championships and European Championships in Long Distance Triathlon. I'll be attempting to fund myself to get there through my own means (praise the lord for credit cards!), which is an opportunity I may not get again.
However I've also found myself heading towards 2019 (my next charity year) and wanting to still do something remarkable to raise funds to make a difference to the lives of others. Just because I can't afford to fund my charity challenge this time (I have funded every other one I've done), it didn't mean I wanted to sacrifice the World champs place, or not do a charity event. So......to get to the start line I need to raise £1650 entry fee and then find camping fees, which in total once the 5% fees from the page have been taken, will come just shy of around £2000. As soon as I hit the target I intend to close this page and direct all funds to the charity page, which I'm more excited about than raising the entry fee! I'm being transparent about this now - this page is to fund the cost of getting to the start line which is a huge undertaking. There will be a separate page for charity as soon as I'm sure the entry fee is paid etc. I'll be fundraising for a mental health charity (still to be decided), as well as a 2nd charity (likely for children) which is still being decided.
It's my birthday in August and I plan to ask friends and family to donate here instead of cards or gifts. In addition my main hope is that I can ask companies and businesses to sponsor a day each of the event in exchange for social media coverage, promotion of your business, logos on my kit and links to your website on my main website when this is built. I will also offer to come to your place of employment to deliver a talk about the event once this has been completed.
This isn't a holiday and although I do triathlon as my hobby, this will be tough. It's longer than the channel in swimming (24 miles), it's longer then the length of UK in cycling (1120 miles) and it's further than running London to Paris (262 miles), all in 10 days, while camping in a tent and in the Summer heat. It's something no UK woman has completed before. It's something very few men even do. In attempting this, I'm pushing my boundaries, hoping to encourage and inspire other people, especially women to believe they can achieve bigger things, break the mould and be stronger than they realise.
However I've also found myself heading towards 2019 (my next charity year) and wanting to still do something remarkable to raise funds to make a difference to the lives of others. Just because I can't afford to fund my charity challenge this time (I have funded every other one I've done), it didn't mean I wanted to sacrifice the World champs place, or not do a charity event. So......to get to the start line I need to raise £1650 entry fee and then find camping fees, which in total once the 5% fees from the page have been taken, will come just shy of around £2000. As soon as I hit the target I intend to close this page and direct all funds to the charity page, which I'm more excited about than raising the entry fee! I'm being transparent about this now - this page is to fund the cost of getting to the start line which is a huge undertaking. There will be a separate page for charity as soon as I'm sure the entry fee is paid etc. I'll be fundraising for a mental health charity (still to be decided), as well as a 2nd charity (likely for children) which is still being decided.
It's my birthday in August and I plan to ask friends and family to donate here instead of cards or gifts. In addition my main hope is that I can ask companies and businesses to sponsor a day each of the event in exchange for social media coverage, promotion of your business, logos on my kit and links to your website on my main website when this is built. I will also offer to come to your place of employment to deliver a talk about the event once this has been completed.
This isn't a holiday and although I do triathlon as my hobby, this will be tough. It's longer than the channel in swimming (24 miles), it's longer then the length of UK in cycling (1120 miles) and it's further than running London to Paris (262 miles), all in 10 days, while camping in a tent and in the Summer heat. It's something no UK woman has completed before. It's something very few men even do. In attempting this, I'm pushing my boundaries, hoping to encourage and inspire other people, especially women to believe they can achieve bigger things, break the mould and be stronger than they realise.
Organizer
Kate Anna-Louise Jayden
Organizer
England