In Partnership

FUND RAISING FOR CHARITIES and GOOD CAUSES.

The guaranteed entry places available through Rotary are available to those willing to raise a guaranteed level of sponsorship monies. No race entry fee is payable.

The principal causes jointly supported by IronmanUK & Rotary in connection with the 2012 event are:
 

1 Children’s Hospice'S 
“Helping Children with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition.”

In the south-west of England alone there are over 800 children & their families who could be helped. Children’s Hospice South West was started to help them, with the first hospice opening in Barnstaple in 1995 and the second newly opened in North Somerset in 2007. These are the only children’s hospice in the south-west & support over 200 children & their families, offering respite, relaxation, friendship, a sense of community & beyond that can share the 24-hour care of a very sick child & support the family in bereavement.

The demands have continued to increase. The aim now is to provide a third hospice, this time in Cornwall and your help is needed to both contribute significantly  to the £15 million that is needed to build, equip & endow it with initial running costs and to start to build a 3rd. hospice in the South West.

Our additional major causes are:

2 Life Education Centres
"Helping Children Make Healthy Choices." - Assisted by Rotary throughout the UK

• Educating children about the effects and risks associated with the use of drugs alcohol and tobacco.

• Contributing to life-skills and health education programmes, utilising models of best practice.

By working in partnership with schools and others in the community

• Life Education Centres is the largest charity of its kind building partnerships with primary schools and the community as a whole to support and promote best practice in health education.

• Highly trained Educators work in specially designed mobile classrooms  providing a stimulating learning environment, working with children from the age of 3 upwards in the belief that effective drug prevention education cannot be left until children reach adolescence.

 Under the theme

"STOP IT BEFORE IT STARTS"

• Rotary and IronmanUK want to make a meaningful contribution to the continuing cost of providing this enlightened approach to teaching young children about healthy living.
  
   

3.  CANCER CHARITIES

 All of us know of someone who has been afflicted by cancer in some form or other and needed treatment or care.  To help the charities and causes of research and care we wish to support a great range of fantastic organisations.  Our list includes:

      CLIC Sargent (Cancer & Leukaemia in Children)

      Cancer Research UK

      MacMillan Cancer Relief

      Leukaemia Research Fund

      Marie Curie

Help us to Help Them

4.   AIR AMBULANCE

      On average an emergency air ambulance takes off every 10 minutes in the UK, flying 365 days a year in daylight hours.  Put another way, during every hour of every day 7 air ambulances are attending accidents and medical trauma.  Air Ambulance is a VOLUNTARY EMERGENCY SERVICE and needs to fund spending of around £875,000 each week.

      Help us to help them – you never know when they may need to help you.

Exceptionally, we have just a handful of bonded entry places for athletes strongly committed to raising funds for an individual charity. If you are in this category take a look at the list of charities that Rotary & IronmanUK have agreed to support.

If you take an entry place in this category, your fund raising will be divided between your preferred charity & the causes supported jointly by IronmanUK & Rotary in the proportion as agreed between Rotary and yourself: up to 50% may be passed without deduction to your nominated cause. If your charity is listed please submit an application entering the name(s) of the charity that you wish to carry sponsorship for. Please note that the sponsorship monies that you raise will be channelled via Rotary. In turn, the funds will be passed to the nominated charity in full & credited to your fund raising efforts.

If when completing the on-line entry form you find these few entry places are taken, please e-mail us & ask if we can offer another place.

Similarly, if the charity you wish to support is not listed ask if it may be possible for us to add it to the list and offer a race entry slot.

FOR THE FUTURE

Discussions are taking place now to consider the establishment of a trust to provide support to the sport and upcoming triathletes.

If you wish to know more and be advised of progress please email and we shall add your name to our contact list.

list of charities