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 Looking for donations to keep our home and avoid homelessness. We live in a city with very little resources and no funding. We are in desperate need of <strong>3,500 to be able to stay in our home.</strong> Any amount helps. <strong>After suffering from heart problems and being violently sick, I fell behind on bills and am doing my best to get caught up.</strong>
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3,500 Needed to Stay in Our Home

<div>The devastating wildfires continue to rage in the forest, moors and mountains around the village of Nethy Bridge in the Cairngorms, Scotland. The Nethy Bridge Community Centre is being used as the control centre for emergency services and for the many brave volunteers who are fighting the fire. This fund has been established to raise funds to support the work being done by everyone involved in tackling the fire by giving them a place to rest, feed and recover between their long, hard shifts.
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<div>Any money you donate will be used to provide food and drinks for those brave women and men who are helping fight the fires. In the unlikely event that we raise more money than we need, any funds left over will be directed towards the long process of recovery from this awful fire.
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<div>The control centre was moved to Nethy Bridge on Friday 24 July. Since then, we’ve relied on the incredible support of the local (and not-so-local) community to provide food and drinks to cover around 500 meals per day for those involved in fighting the fires. As well as many individuals contributing, small businesses in the area have given generously while losing money due to the fires. This has been heart-warming and humbling in this most difficult time. However, with no end in sight, it’s not sustainable to keep relying on local generosity to maintain the support we’re providing to those at the front line. That’s why we are asking for your help.
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<div>We are grateful and fortunate that the fire did not reach the village itself, that no buildings were damaged, and that everyone from the village is safe. However, Nethy Bridge is known as ‘The Forest Village’ and the damage to the forests, moors and mountains which surround the village is devastating and breaks our hearts to see. No doubt there will be a time soon when we can reflect on the damage done and consider how to move forward from there. For now though, we need to focus on getting the fire out, and supporting the many people involved in helping with that.
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<div>Finally, a huge thanks once again to everyone who has been involved in fighting the fires and also in supporting the work of the fire fighters. We also appreciate the thousands of kind messages from across the world. If you’re able to make a donation to help us, it would be greatly appreciated.
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<div>This fund will be managed jointly by Nethy Bridge Community Centre (NBCC) and Nethy Bridge Vicinity Community Council (NBVCC).
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<div>Thanks for all your support,
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<div>Sandy McCook (Chair - NBVCC) and Stevie Christie (Chair - NBCC)
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<div>Drugs, alcohol, and bad mental health, are things that go hand in hand.
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<div>I believe we have more of problem than we like to let on in the UK, ranking 17th in the world for opiate abuse (with a small population of 67 million), and consuming over 11.3 litres of pure alcohol, per person, per year.
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<div>(that's not 11.3 litres of 5% beer, that's 11.3 litres of 100% pure alcohol, per person)
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<div>I could go on about statistics to prove that we have a problem, like in 2015 - 16 figures showing, 21% of all hospitalisations were due to drug, or alcohol abuse. But, I think it would be best to share a personal story with addiction that I beat with some help.
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<div>Left is me, passed out on a pretty typical night, after consuming 10, 5mg xanax (my daily intake), copious amounts of alcohol, and a bottle of lean (codiene cough syrup).
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<div>Right is me 6 years later, happy &amp; healthy, on my motorcycle that will take me the 1st part of this journey (update with pedal bike to come soon)
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<div>By age 22, I had hospitalised myself 4 times, had multiple overdoses, a seizure that made me froth at the mouth and turn blue, scared my entire family &amp; friends to death, but despite all that - none of it was enough to crack my addiction.
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<div>I needed help, but the help wasn't readily available.
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<div>So I tried to stop without help, which as you can imagine, didn't go very well haha!
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<div>(cue a week, of hyper-realistic hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, not knowing who you are, or where you are, and wrap it up all nice, with a hospital trip at the end of it)
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<div>So after this, naturally I tried to get help.
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<div>There were huge long wait lists, for overworked NHS therapists, who had to prioritise on whether you were really going to die or not, and could only offer 3 months treatment, to people who couldn't function.
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<div>(I could go to work on drugs so it was all good )
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<div>There were calls to services who turned me away because "I wasn't really an addict, or I was faking it, and I should just stop taking drugs".
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<div>So, instead of taking that advice, I did the total opposite, and went back to taking drugs again.
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<div>Finally, after a couple months, I was tripping on acid, and had a realisation (cliché I know).
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<div>With pupils as big as dishplates, I looked at myself in the mirror, and said:
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<div>"If I have done the work it takes to damage myself this much, I am capable of doing the work it takes to get back".
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<div>And from that point, I got paid therapy for 6 months.
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<div>(which even with that, it was a rocky road to full recovery, with many relapses)
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<div>Unfortunately, most people don't have access to the funds they need for help, which is why sponsoring me to run this event can help save someones life.
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<div>Without that help &amp; support, I wouldn't have been able to turn my life around.
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<div>And, there is someone out there right now, who is in the same position as I was - they want to change, but don't know how, or don't have access to the resources to help them.
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<div>There isn't enough funding for mental health and addiction in our NHS, and "...three in four people with a mental health problem in England receive little or no treatment for their condition, [with] large gaps in terms of health outcomes – people with the most severe mental illnesses die on average 15 to 20 years earlier than the general population".
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<div>It's shocking we live in a country with so much money but don't have the capacity to help more people.
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<div>It's a bigger problem than you think. And, I'm sure you can think of someone you know who has been depressed, or drinks a bit too much.
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<div>Let's change that together by raising the funds to help more people lead happy and healthy lives.
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<div>Wishing you lots of happiness and success in your life.
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<div>Harry
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<div>So here's the rough plan:
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<div>1. 10kms around SEA by motorbike then start the route home
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<div>2. Cycle 15000km or more from China (cycled 3600kms in Vietnam, changing to motorbike)
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<div>3. Cry?
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<div>I will be uploading everything to my YouTube and Instagram pages, so follow me there to stay updated with the journey.
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<div>We're doing this, no matter what it takes.
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