December 14 2011
100+ Club Novenber Prize Draw has taken place - to find out who the lucky winners were follow this link >>>
October 15 2011
The latest newsletter is now available to download so follow this link >>>
London Support Group
March 15th, 2012 - Guest speaker
For full details please go to Support Groups >>>
DFfB is looking for volunteer runners to participate in October 2012 Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon
If you're interested in taking part to support DFfB please email us here >>>
Bike Ride For Mckenzie & DFfB
Darren Green and his very good friend Adam Johnson are doing a charity bike ride from from Lincoln to Blackpool Tower and back again on the April 1st, setting off @ 8.00am.
Read about the story that inspired this adventure and support them with your donations, at JustGiving.Com, by following this link >>>
Surrey Fundraisers organising events throughout the year - watch this space >>>
Mens Health Survival of the Fittest Challenge
Thank you to Dean Chauhan and friends for taking part in this event in aid of DFfB.
Although the event is over you can still make donations by following this link >>>
You can read his Mum's story on page 2 of the latest DFfB newsletter; ONE CANDLE. ONE GUST OF WIND; Sometimes that’s all it takes
Singapore Fight Night
Our sincere thanks to the organisers and the Singapore Barbarians for this amazing evening!
Speak to Endsleigh for a Charity Insurance quote...
As a young Royal Marine, Paddy Ashdown entered this crazy event and proclaimed afterwards that he only knew of one other person in history who had suffered a worse Easter!
There are far, far easier ways to travel from Devizes to Westminster and most don't get you wet and allow you to take as long as you like. However, if you harbour an adventurous side, have a tendency to attempt a challenge without totally thinking it through, and you want to spend several months' worth of weekends training for something mad, then this is the event for you. My cousin, Dan, would have relished this kind of mission and had I not kept this thought in my mind, I would never have reached the start line in Devizes, at 7am on Easter Saturday, let alone canoed non-stop for 23 hours before finally succumbing to utter exhaustion, somewhere near Chertsey.
My friend, Alastair Wilson (it was all his idea...), and I realised our miscalculation 5 months before the race, when we first sat in our second hand marathon canoe on the Avon at Bradford and promptly capsized in front of 20 sniggering members of the local canoe club. Marathon canoes are about as narrow as your backside and as stable as a round log in water. The art of balance evaded capture for many weeks but we eventually overcame it after a nasty experience on the River Kennet in the middle of Reading.
Our 'everest' was to complete the 125 miles of the race, paddling about 60,000 strokes in the process and 'portaging' around 77 locks en route. Beginning on the Kennet & Avon Canal, which joins the River Kennet and then the Thames, we had to catch the first tidal lock at Teddington during a 3-hour window on Easter Sunday morning. In the end we managed 95 miles and 74 locks but we were one of the last to retire of the 30% of entrants who didn't make the finish line. I think it was the sleep deprivation and our bodies' eventual rejection of mini mars bars which did it for us in the end. The oddest things to happen to you before your body gives up are hallucinations and talking gibberish. We graduated with honours in both of these special subjects and were just tackling dehydration when we finally ended our quest.
Dan would have shot past, urging us on with a big grin at this point, but we just couldn't go on.
