Donations for Darren Holloway

Darren's family have asked that if you would like to make a donation in his memory that it be split between Woodhead MRT and the Northwest Air Ambulance. I've set up Just Giving page for each, and created a 'Just Gving Team' for both.

http://www.justgiving.com/teams/dazh/

Please give to both as generously as you can, and spread the link above around.

Thanks,

Already gave to Woodhead MRT today via just giving but didn't know there was a page for Daz. I emilwd the site and asked them to add my donation to the total raised is Daz's name. They said it had to be done as an offline donation by the page owner so whoever that is, add 50 quid to the total please.

same amount for the air ambulance too. I should have waited. Sorry.

Thanks for setting it up :)

Mark

Good work Dom.

No problem Mark - I've only just set it up, all cash is good however it gets there!

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Originally Posted by Ady In Accy

Good work Dom.

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Seconded, top man Dom.

Thank-you Dom.

Great job Dom.
Ta
Tim

Cheers Dom. Donated to both, shame I can't afford more!

That made it very easy, thanks Dom.

Thanks Dom... Sorted really easily whilst on the tram this morning :)

Thanks for your help Bryan xx

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Originally Posted by Mark Smith

Already gave to Woodhead MRT today via just giving but didn't know there was a page for Daz. I emilwd the site and asked them to add my donation to the total raised is Daz's name. They said it had to be done as an offline donation by the page owner so whoever that is, add 50 quid to the total please.

same amount for the air ambulance too. I should have waited. Sorry.

Thanks for setting it up :)

Mark

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Thanks Mark

I'll let the team know.

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Originally Posted by dominion

Darren's family have asked that if you would like to make a donation in his memory that it be split between Woodhead MRT and the Northwest Air Ambulance. I've set up Just Giving page for each, and created a 'Just Gving Team' for both.

http://www.justgiving.com/teams/dazh/

Please give to both as generously as you can, and spread the link above around.

Thanks,

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Again on behalf of the team thanks Bryan and also to Amanda and Josh for Nominating both these worth while causes

We'll put the money to good use.

The target has been reached in just a day! Great effort! I wonder how much more will be raised?

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Originally Posted by Dynamo Dan

The target has been reached in just a day! Great effort! I wonder how much more will be raised?

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To be honest, the target was just a random number I picked. £2000 in less than 24 hours is fabulous. Thank you everyone.

Donations are flying in. Great to see such a show of shared grieving and testament to how well respected he was by everyone both in the sport and in his daily life.

It must be heartwarming for Amanda and Josh to see how much people care. When my mother died I found great comfort from the amount of people who turned up at the funeral and those who donated. It doesn't make the loss any easier but it's nice to feel people care.

Please add £300 to each of the two charities as offline donations. These are the proceeds of the Windgather race held last Sunday at the same time as the relays.
If someone pm's me I'll arrange for cheques to be sent.

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Originally Posted by Al.

Please add £300 to each of the two charities as offline donations. These are the proceeds of the Windgather race held last Sunday at the same time as the relays.
If someone pm's me I'll arrange for cheques to be sent.

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Thank you very much for that.

Details for the North West Air Ambulance here,

https://nwaa.net/donate

I've just mailed IDP to get the details for Woodhead MRT.

thx Dom, good effort lad

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Originally Posted by dominion

Thank you very much for that.

Details for the North West Air Ambulance here,

https://nwaa.net/donate

I've just mailed IDP to get the details for Woodhead MRT.

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I've Pm'd Al Dom.

I have added the JustGiving link to my Homepaige with a photo of Daz
http://www.fellrunner.net/index.html

Message from Amanda

Hi Steve,

Please forward or post this email Dominion

Stunned ... is the word that springs to mind, when i arrived home late last night from darrens mums to sit with a cuppa and have a read of the fra forum, as it gives me comfort at the moment.

Was it really just a few hours ago that we were discussing setting up a donations page for Darren, sorting the 2 charities and such...

There it was top of the posts for yesterday, Dominion had posted a link to a just giving page set up in Darrens memory.Cry oh yes its made me sob.... not only tears of sadness but tears of appreciation for again the unselfishness of fellow runners and forum friends. when we spoke yesterday Steve and had the idea I said i wouldn't have known where to start, but you both sorted it

I was shock that 500 pounds had been donated by midnight .....i sit here tonight (wednesday) and the total has surpassed what was set and is touching 3000 pounds. I think even Darren would shed a tear at that..........

Thank you dominion whoever you are xx

Words cannot express what it means to myself Josh, Darrens parents and sister who's just flown in from Vietnam.

Amanda xxx

Over £5k - amazing!

Now over £6k :-))

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Now over £6k :-))

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The team are stunned to say the least. A hearty thank you to all who have donated to both causes.

I've been peddling the link on twitter, as have loads of others. I can't believe how well it's been received. The list of donations is like a who's who in fell running. All well deserved, both the teams that the money is going to and to Darren himself. The generosity of the fellrunning community is awesome.

Almost £7000. I just donated again to get it a little bit closer.

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Originally Posted by OneHillWonder

Almost £7000. I just donated again to get it a little bit closer.

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You seem to have sparked a bit of a flurry... Maybe I should increase the targets to 5k each????

Well round numbers do look better, so why not?

Donations close to £8,000 in total now

Donations now over £8,000. Amazing.

I'm stunned how much has been donated. Amazing indeed!

Donations to Darren Holloway Raised so far: £9,041.00

So close to £10000. We could do it by Christmas, couldn't we?

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Originally Posted by OneHillWonder

So close to £10000. We could do it by Christmas, couldn't we?

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Donations in Darrens name have already exceeded that as I've been sent over £500 direct plus I know of others that were sent direct to team. I imagine that similar donations have been made to Air Ambulance.

Oh right, yes of course. Wow. It's a lot of money IDP.

Just gone over 10k following Bo Peeps donation from today's Giants Tooth race.
Very fitting.

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Originally Posted by Stagger

Just gone over 10k following Bo Peeps donation from today's Giants Tooth race.
Very fitting.

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Brilliant. Thanks for highlighting this Stagger

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Brilliant.

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I agree.

Just added my donation, I didn't know Darren either (my loss). From reading all the stories about him, it sounds like he was an amazing kind, generous & much loved person who will be so sadly missed, he is now able to run free in the clouds forever x

I don't know if his family still look at the forum ever, but I'm sure many were thinking of them over Christmas and New Year. It must be a very hard time. Hope they're all well.