Donations by the Club (financial years to end Aug)
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2024
Winter talks:
First evening of talks raised £530 (inc. Gift Aid) for Borders SAR
Second evening of talks raised £560 (inc. Gift Aid) for Marie Curie
Final talk raised £620 (inc. Gift Aid) for World Bicycle Relief Society
2023
Races held by the club have previously raised funds which allow us to make donations to various local organisations. In light of this year’s Skyline not going ahead, we felt as a club that these organisations should not miss out on this support. As such we have made the following donations to allow them to continue the work they do to benefit the whole outdoor community:
£390 to Friends of the Pentlands
£250 to Tweed Valley MRT
£100 to Pentland Hills Regional Park
Winter talk #3 – £230 was raised for Venture Trust. https://www.justgiving.com/venturetrust
A video of her talk will be available online in due course
1. Upper Tweed Community Council £500
2. Broughton Village Community Council £1,000
3. Manor Water Community Council – nil (we’ve offered them £85 after last year’s race but they’ve never sent account details despite being reminded!)
4. Moffat Mountain Rescue £750
2022
Pentland Land Managers Association (PLMA) – £1,230 (Levy on runners in the Pentland Skyline race).
Friends of the Pentlands – £16 (annual subscription)
Pentland Hills Regional Park – £400
SHR – £250
Winter talks:
Estimates of donations since the charities don’t allow viewing past donations…
Talk 1 – £420 so far to Water Aid (Matt Girvans’s chosen charity link here https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/matt-walks)
Talk 2 -Estimated £120 so far to https://www.tweedvalleymrt.org.uk/. Tweed Valley MRT cover the Pentlands so any donation may be a good investment!
Talk 3 – £150 so far to Prospect Hospice in Wroughton, Wiltshire, Al Sylvester’s chosen charity. Donations – https://www.prospect-hospice.net/your-prospect/donate/
Talk 4 – attendees 35 Charity: http://www.rnli.org (Lifeboats) Est: £175
Talk 5 – attendees 26 Charity: www.magpas.org.uk (Air Ambulance) Est: £ 130
Talk 6 – attendees 31 Charity: https://baycatrescue.wix.com (Animals) Est: £155
2021
Friends of the Pentlands – £16 (annual subscription)
2020
Donated kit donations – £530 plus gift aide. To Maggie’s Cancer Charity.
Pentland Hills Regional Park – £1500 (which will be directed towards path works near the filtration beds at Flotterstone)
Strathcarron Hospice – £1955 (raised by the Trossachs Night Trail race series)
Friends of the Pentlands – £16 (annual subscription)
Webinars – £1,432.57+ £308.75 Gift Aid (https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/carnethytalks to 20th May 2020)
Winter Talk 1 – £250 to each charity – SAMH and Strathcarron Hospice
Winter Talk 2 – £600 – Médecins Sans Frontières
Winter Talk 3 – £664 – Maggie’s cancer charity
Quiz – £865 split between above. See below for more details.
The Talks Series completed with a Virtual Zoom based Quiz on what we found out from the speakers and general knowledge on science and Covid-19 related themes.
Hats doffed to Peter Cain who put up his charity pots of £1000 for the quizzers to win by working together to correctly answer his sometime devious questions.In the end, correct answers won £865 that was split 4 ways to each of the charities that the Talks series donated to. A rough calculation of what the club and its supporters raised is here totaling nearly £4500 before adding Gift Aide to those eligible.
Talks series: | Winter | Virtual | Quiz | Total | |
SAMH | 250 | 60 | 216 | 526 | |
MSF | 600 | 80 | 216 | 896 | |
Strathcarron Hospice | 250 | 50 | 216 | 516 | |
Maggies | 664 | 1637 | 216 | 2517 | |
£4455 | |||||
Gift Aid | £890 | Excl MSF | |||
Total | £5345 |
2019
Strathcarron Hospice – £1416.50 (raised by the Trossachs Night Trail race series)
Winter Talk 4 – £142 to a charity in Zambia
Winter Talk 3 – £400 to Link
Winter Talk 2 – £541 to https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/supermarrowman
Winter Talk 1 – £466.65 to Urban Uprising
2018
Winter Talk 4 – Archie Tayside Appeal (Children’s hospital) nominated by Paul Fettes – £463.78 and Afghanaid, nominated by Bob Johnson – ~£40
Winter Talk 3 – Torridon Mountain Rescue Team – £460 collected
Winter Talk 2 – £250 in Scotland the Big Picture
Winter Talk 1 – £190 to Future 4 Heroes
Strathcarron Hospice – £1,048 (raised by the Trossachs Night Trail race series)
Castlelaw Car Park south gate replacement – part of the money raised at the Pentland Skyline Race by selling those gorgeous blue Buffs has been given to the Pentland Hills Regional Park to help repair some of the wear and tear that the race (and others) cause. The donation has been used to buy a metal replacement gate for the wooden one on the south side of the car park – where the path runs along side the barn. Most of you at some time or another will have gone through the gate, carefully hanging the chain back onto the nail as you go. That chain’s days are numbered! There will now be a proper ‘crash’ as the metal gate slams shut. I think we’re also paying for some of the fencing to be replaced as well.
Borders Forest Trust + Moffat mountain rescue (Devil’s Beeftub Race) £200
Scottish Rights of Way Society – £30
Friends of the Pentlands – £16 (annual subscription)
Other: inc Traprain Law and Manor Water donations – £283
2017
Borders Forest Trust (Devil’s Beeftub Race) £50
Scottish Rights of Way Society – £30
Friends of the Pentlands – £16 (annual subscription)
Tinto Hill Runners £150 (for helping at Tinto Hill race)
Strathcarron Hospice – £940 (raised by the Trossachs Night Trail race series)
Winter Talk – £152.46 for the Borders Exploration Group, nominated by speaker Jane Bryant
Winter Talk – £225 for Macmillan Cancer Support, the charity nominated by main speaker Martin Stone
Winter Talk “Kidnapped” – £283.70 for Parkinsons UK, the charity nominated by Willie Gibson and Alan Rankin
2016
Borders Forest Trust (Devil’s Beeftub Race) £50
Scottish Rights of Way Society – £30
Friends of the Pentlands – £16 (annual subscription)
Strathcarron Hospice – £490 (raised by the Trossachs Night Trail race series)
Subsidised 1st aid courses for club members
Tinto Hill Runners £100 (for helping at Tinto Hill race)2015
Borders Forest Trust (Devil’s Beeftub Race) £50
Manor Water race – the race made £94.68 this year which will be donated to the Manor Sheepdog Trials committee who raise money for local charities.
Winter Talk – Thurs 15 Jan 2015 raised £207 for http://www.shelterbox.org/, the charity nominated by the main speaker James Hall.
2012/13
£250 to African Palliative Care Association (APCA)
(donation as thank-you to Dr Andrew Murray’s excellent presentation in the winter talks series). Andrew Murray’s JustGiving page here
2011/12
Borders Forest Trust (Devil’s Beeftub Race) £100
Lomond Mountain Rescue £100
Friends of the Pentlands £114,
Mount Everest Talk Donation £250,
Erskine £100,
The British Red Cross £250,
The Esk Valley Trust £100 thankyou letter from the trust
Border Search and Rescue £500 Thankyou letter
The cost of installing a gate at “Charlies Loup” on the Carnethy 5 Course £488
2010/11
Scottish Wildlife Trust £50
Friends of the Pentlands £500
British Red Cross £250
Erskine £100
The cost of installing a gate in the fence on the Carnethy 5 course on the climb out of Flotterstone Glen £305,
2009/10
Friends of the Pentlands £112,
Scottish Hill Runners £350
British Red Cross £250
Current fundraising by Carnethy members –
2022
I am happy to unveil the Naked Hill Runner Journal. Thank you to everyone who jumped at the opportunity to get involved and sent along your delightful nudes. We hope that this pdf will fill you all with joy and in turn you will consider donating to the amazing cause- The Scottish Mountain Rescue.
Please find the journal here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K8nGUto6TIU5gkGkCEgf-hCALilxYLPs/view?usp=sharing
And the corresponding mountain rescue fundraiser page here:
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/kirsty-dicksonnakedhillrunner
Kirsty Dickson
Donations as of 26 Jan 2020: £1,075.00 + £216.25 Gift Aid
2020
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/nicola-duncan-2?utm_term=vBBjb8wXK
Sean Walker is running the 2020 London Marathon to raise funds for SAMH:
I have run a few trail/hill ultras but I have never run a road marathon. A fellow Carnethy said “if you only run one road marathon you should run the London Marathon”. And if I am going to run a road marathon I should raise some money for charity along the way. The charity I am supporting is SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health).
We all have mental health, just as we have physical health, and it’s important that we take the time to look after it.
Please help me raise money and spread the word about the importance of supporting mental health in Scotland and around the world.
If you are able, please visit my fundraising page and donate.
2019
Micah has completed the trip and here is more information about the charities involved:
Anthony Nolan’s website is http://anthonynolan.org (age 16-30) and DKMS is https://www.dkms.org.uk/en (17-55). DKMS are a partner charity to Anthony Nolan, and their key objective is to build up a register of potential stem cell or bone marrow donors, as well as conducting research into blood cancer and supporting patients and families with the disease.
The age ranges are set by the charities if people want to sign up to be potential stem cell or bone marrow donors. Other ways of helping are to donate money to the charity, or do fundraising.
My promotional video for this ride summarises things quite well, and should help explain things a bit more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn8XozujypI
2018
Hello Carnethys,
I will shortly be setting off to cycle the TransAmerica trail across the USA. The trip will be solo and unsupported, and i’m raising money and awareness for the UK cancer charity Anthony Nolan. 4228 miles in five weeks…hopefully! If you are interested in following or supporting, I am going to share my journey on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @supermarrowman. I can also add you to my weekly newsletter if you would like to send me your email address. Micah Stanbridge
The charity helps people suffering from blood disorders by collecting a register of potentially life saving stem cell and bone marrow donors. So as well as sharing some amazing views, I will also be explaining more about Anthony Nolan and how you can help too :).
Cheers,
Micah Stanbridge
Sorry to report that I’m on the scrounge for sponsorship YET AGAIN!
Last year I ran the London Marathon trying to capture the new Guinness World Record for “the fastest marathon dressed as a three-dimension toy (male)”. Some title eh!? Guinness set me a time of 5hrs and unfortunately I only managed 5hrs 19mins.
In less than two weeks time (Sunday 22nd April 2018) I will run my 18th consecutive London Marathon and I will try again to beat that 5 hour barrier. The potato head costume proved immensely popular last year but it was very awkward to run inside such a cramped and hot space. I have made structural changes for 2018 without spoiling the look of the costume.
The photo shows myself and my son, Sam, with daughters, Naomi and Hannah.
Hannah was due to run with me this year but has picked up an injury so I will run on my own and dodge the other runners without her help.
All money raised will go to “Afghanaid” and I am proud to help the lovely people of that troubled part of the world. Afghanaid’s community-led approach gives ordinary Afghans a voice in their own development, allowing them to play a part in shaping the future of their country. Afghanaid have a deep understanding of local, cultural and ethnic issues, resulting in great trust and respect among the communities, lifting families out of poverty for good.
There’s been lots of bad press concerning charities lately (Oxfam and many others) but “Afghanaid” have been truly brilliant and it’s a privilege to help them..
East and west have tried to enforce their values on Afghanistan and it’s my pleasure to try and help these people.
If you could spare a minute and a few pounds to sponsor me then that would be FANTASTIC – please follow this link: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/potato-head
Many thanks – best wishes Bob Johnson
Hi!
Only a few people will know me, as I do the social runs and ladies runs occasionally and am quite new to the club (well I joined a year ago).
I am doing the Rob Roy Challenge on 23rd June this year. It’s not technically a running event – it’s a 14 mile walk (which can be run if desired) followed by a 56 mile bike ride. However, it starts at Kenmore, following bits of the Rob Roy way and is a beautiful course.
I’m doing in memory of my daughter Sophie, who took her own life when she was only 13 years old. She would have been 18 this year in June. I raised some money for Childline after her death and therefore have been given 10 free places by the NSPCC who run the Childline Service. The normal cost of the event is £75.
I am looking for willing participants who would want to do the event and would be happy to raise any amount of sponsorship that they could. The idea would be to do the event as a team, with a team name etc. The first 8 people I get would get a free place as a friend and I are the first 2 to sign up. T-shirts and marketing material would be provided by NSPCC.
My email address is ruthmoss71@gmail.com if you’re interested.
Thanks for reading this and hopefully you’ll join us!
Ruth
https://www.robroychallenge.com
2017
I’m trying to get a Guinness World Record for the “fastest marathon as a three-dimensional toy” (add your own toy-boy stuff here) this Sunday in the London marathon. The progress to date on the costume is shown on the attached lo-res photo. It will be a tough marathon ’cause the costume is 14lbs already and seems to be creeping up towards 18lbs. The weight plus the wind resistance plus being cramped inside a paper and mache shell for hours will make it quite an adventure.
I’m raising money again for “The Children’s Trust” who do tremendous work in looking after kids with brain injuries either from birth or from some sort of accident. I’ve got a sponsor page set-up with Virgin Money who are the principal sponsor of the London Marathon. The sponsorship page is as follows:- http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/potato-head
If you could spare £5 to sponsor me then that would be most appreciated…
I hope to raise to raise £1000 or more by lots of small donations…
Many thanks indeed – all the best Bob
Bob Johnson
I am mobilising to run the Virgin London Marathon on the 23rd April to raise some money. You may have helped sponsor me before. Will you again? I have never run a ‘flat’ Marathon and my sore old knees are not relishing the pounding on tarmac, I can assure you.
I am also running the Selkirk Ultra Marathon and the Glencoe Skyline (as seen on TV) later in September if you feel I am having it too easy this year!
Please donate, please share, please help. https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/we-support-molly-williams?utm_id=106
Thanks.
Mark Hartree
2016
The fundraising page of Kidnapped130 – http://www.kidnapped130.com/charities/
Plot to Kidnap the President!
Some time next week, your president is going to be kidnapped.
He will be put on a boat at South Queensferry and then taken (Against his will) to Erraid, at the end of the Ross of Mull, around 500 miles of sailing.
Shipwrecked there (hopefully not!), Along with a rebel Jacobite the pair will make their way some 260 miles back to Edinburgh.
If you would like to follow this adventure there is more information on www.kidnapped130.com
David Balfour and Alan Breck Stewart (aka Willie Gibson and Alan Rankin)
Read Bob’s report “London Marathon 2016 – hammered by a horse and rider two-man costume”
A Guinness World Record attempt that’s on for this Sunday:-
We’ve built a two-man Indian canoe replica and plan to “paddle” that around the streets of London in order to become the official “fastest marathon in a two-person costume”. The team consists of Bob Johnson and Richard Johnson in the canoe with Simon Smith acting as “traffic minder”. We passed the Silverstone half-marathon “test” imposed by the London Marathon authorities and, come Sunday, it’s the real deal!
The whole project has been very generously sponsored by Johnson’s Coaches of Henley-in-Arden and with their help we plan to raise something like £5000 for cancer and children’s charities. We start in the GREEN start area at
10am on Sunday morning with lots of other Guinness World Record hopefuls (68 of us). We get the official Guinness World Record if we can complete the 26.2 mile course in under 5 hours.
The canoe has been made by hand and a few lo-res constructional photos are attached to this email. The canoe is getting it’s final coat of paint and war-like decorations this week so you should be able to spot us easily
enough amongst the other 30,000 or so runners.
If you would be kind enough to sponsor the team then please hit the link below:-
www.justgiving.com/Richard-Johnson28
Please drop me a return email if you do sponsor the team as I’d like to write and thank you in person.
Please feel free to circulate one or two of the attached images on social media.
Ouch it’s gunna hurt but we promise to give it MAX!
Best Wishes and many thanks Bob
Confirmation from an eggcited Bob Johnson, who is recovering down South from his eggcellent run in the London Marathon, that he broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon as a three-dimensional bird over 20 pounds in weight.
Bob finished in 5:50, running 95% of the race, laying eggnormous eggs for 5%, but spent 100% of the race inside the eggceptional ostrich.
You can still donate to Bob’s chosen charities here:
http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/bob-and-jon
Report from Bob…
Bob Johnson, thinly disguised as the “Bobstrich” (many thanks Phillipa for the excellent name) took London by surprise on Sunday morning. With an Ostrich costume that covered his head-plus-torso but not much else he galloped into the Guinness Book of World Records for the “fastest marathon as a three-dimensional bird”. His finish time of 5hrs 50mins was well inside the 7 hours stipulated by Guinness for the new record.
Bob takes up the story:
“My first scare was at 0430am on the Saturday before the race when the newly-constructed box would not fit inside my car! This was resolved with 50m of 9mm climbing rope and a hellishly large bow-tie. My second scare occurred at Edinburgh airport at 0530am when Flybe check-in staff said “Forget it – that won’t go in” when they saw the coffin-shaped Ostrich box. It did go through the X-ray machine but only just. My next scare occurred at 930am on Sunday morning just 40 minutes before the start when the Ostrich weighed in at 18 pounds and thus TOO LIGHT for the new record attempt of a three-dimensional bird OVER 20-pounds. This was resolved with the addition of 4 water/energy drink bottles.
Race went great and loads of people seemed to love the ostrich and/or my “display” of legginess. Final scare occurred going back through London City Airport security when the Ostrich coffin got stuck in the X-ray machine and I was also asked about several “offending items” located in my carry-on. Those offending items being (a) a quantity of cable ties (b) pozi-drive screwdriver (c) semi-opaque ladies tights (d) 3m elastic shock cord (e) length of 6mm nylon rope. On “inspection” I was also found to have “carpet burns” on my elbows. The ostrich costume (and the resulting elbow injuries) seemed to get me off as long as the chap called “Trigger” working the x-ray machine could have my mobile number”.
MASSIVE thanks to all those who donated to “The Children’s Trust” (75%) and “The Shakespeare Hospice” (25%)”…
Bob Johnson
One summer, 6 Ultra Marathons, >250 miles
Last year I completed Ramsay’s Round in just over 24hrs with amazing support from many of you.
This helped me raise £6,000 for SMA Support UK.Molly now has a Whizzybug special chair to give her freedom to move around like other children. Loads of other good stuff has been done as well with the money but more is needed.
This year I’m going to attempt to race in Six Ultra Marathons during 2015 to raise money for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Support UK again and I’d really appreciate your support if you can.
If my body holds up, that’s over 250 miles of running in Scotland and Switzerland mainly off-road by October.
The next race this weekend (25th) is the Fling – 53 miles along the West Highland Way from Milngavie to Tyndrum which I hope to complete in 10-11 hrs of running. Other races are on the JustGiving page.
Sponsor a single race, or for all races, I don’t mind, or just wish me luck and help me up the stairs in the days after a race! Donating to my JustGiving page is easy – just follow the link to more information on the challenge.
JustGiving sends your donation straight to Spinal Muscular Atrophy Support UK so it’s a quick and safe way to donate. Good luck to everyone running and raising money over the summer, plus the odd Ostrich…. And good luck to the Flingers and London Marathoners this weekend.
Thank you!
Mark Hartree
Donate to Mark’s JustGiving page
Mark is raising money to help Spinal Muscular Atrophy Support UK families and individuals affected by SMA
June or July 2014
To raise funds for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Support UK, I will run the Ramsay Round in June or July 2014 (weather dependent).
This equates to ~ 56 miles running and 28,000ft of climbing (not quite Everest from sea level) in less than a day.
This is not a trivial undertaking with 74 completions since first done in 1978.
My run will be supported by the Carnethy Hill Running Club and mountaineering friends. Any support is welcomed before or on the day.
Hopefully, you’ll be able to track me real time by GPS tracker via the web. Detailed route information here and proposed route schedule is attached.
To donate or support:
www.justgiving.com/mark-hartree
Mark Hartree 0780 171 4032 Mark.hartree@selex-es.com
June 2013
Renewable energy powers unique circumnavigation of UK and Ireland
Scottish singlehanded sailor Alan Rankin is now in the final countdown before his planned departure in early June for what is a totally unique voyage around Britain and Ireland. Stopping off at ten ports Alan will swap his sailing boots for running shoes to complete a 10k run at each port to help raise funds for his chosen charities. The challenge also has a unique low carbon ambition.
Alan’s trimaran sailing yacht has been fitted with a wind turbine and solar panels to generate electrical energy to supply power required for the navigation instruments, communication radios, satellite phone, automatic steering gear, navigation and on board lights.
Alan will use the power of the wind, waves and tide to sail the 2,200 mile voyage from Ullapool to the Shetland Isles and then south to the busy English Channel. From there Alan will sail past the Scilly Isles and on up the West Coast of Ireland before heading out to St Kilda and returning around the northern tip of the Outer Hebrides to Ullapool.
Alan said. “My ambition is not just to sail around the UK and Ireland but in doing so leave little or no trace or impact of my voyage. Unfortunately many use the sea as a ‘tip’ and what is out of sight is out of mind. I would like to think my low carbon, low impact ambition is a positive statement to those who enjoy and make a living from the sea. I am passionate about how look after our seas and aim to complete the voyage with not one scrap being thrown overboard and having used only renewable energy. I have also based my food provisioning around suppliers who have strong sustainability values.”
Alan will also be keeping an eye open for wildlife during his epic voyage. The Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Preservation Society has supplied a wildlife recording log book and as the voyage unfolds Alan will record and hopefully photograph observations. The information will be co-ordinated by the HWDPS and circulated to like organisations around the UK and Ireland.
Preparation and updates on Trade Winds Solo Round Britain Challenge can be followed on www.soloroundbritain.com with links to Facebook. Alan has through sponsorship acquired a satellite phone and will be tweeting from the high seas on @soloroundbrit
Trade Winds Solo Round Britain Challenge is raising funds for five charities, each close to Alan’s family. Parkinson’s UK, Cancer Research UK, MS Society, British Heart Foundation and Ocean Youth Trust Scotland. Online or text donations can be made at www.soloroundbritain/charities
In 2006 Alan completed the first ever singlehanded circumnavigation of Scotland by boat and bike. Starting at Kirkcudbright in the Solway Firth he sailed to 1,000 miles round St Kilda, Shetland and landed at Blyth on the NE coast of England and then cycled the 165 miles back to Kirkcudbright. Solo Round Scotland raised£15,000 for Parkinson’s UK and Ocean Youth Trust Scotland and in 2010 the account was published with a forward by Sir Ranulph Fiennes.Further information Alan Rankin alan@soloroundbritain.com