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CAN YOU HELP ME ON MY 75TH BIRTHDAY? I AM RAISING MONEY FOR PANCREATIC CANCER SO HAVE A LISTEN TO FIND OUT WHY! · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And I want to tell you about someone else's having
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  Speaker 1: a birthday. On the twenty ninth for June, I will
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  Speaker 1: be having a birthday and I will be seventy five. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to make any excuses. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: put my hand up and own up to my age.
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  Speaker 1: And I just want to read out something that I
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  Speaker 1: have posted on Facebook and that it's getting a great response.
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  Speaker 2: So listen to this.
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  Speaker 1: On Monday, the twenty ninth of June, I will be
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  Speaker 1: reaching a milestone in my life, my seventy fifth birthday.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought, what can I do? How about raising
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  Speaker 1: money for prostate cancer?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: I thought, I've done my bit for Cancer Research UK
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  Speaker 1: and breast cancer now, and so I decided to promote
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  Speaker 1: prostate cancer.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not climbing Everest, running an ultramarathon, jumping out of
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  Speaker 1: a plane or anything like that. I'm just having a
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  Speaker 1: milestone birthday. Then I thought, do you know what. Over
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  Speaker 1: the last twenty five years, I've promoted Race for Life
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  Speaker 1: on stage. I've promoted loads of charities and interviewedundreds of
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  Speaker 1: fundraising gifts on this very radio focused in sports show.
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  Speaker 1: I've been a quiz master an endless amount of quizes
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  Speaker 1: for charity, all for other people, so I thought it's
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  Speaker 1: my turn to do some fundraising for a good cause.
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  Speaker 1: I've also compared hundreds of road races for running clubs
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  Speaker 1: promoting their causes. If you've ever been to one of
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  Speaker 1: those and one of those people that I've helped or
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  Speaker 1: called in at a race, then all I'm asking for
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  Speaker 1: is a small donation as a birthday present, and it
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  Speaker 1: will go straight to the prostate Cancer charity. One in
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  Speaker 1: eight men will get prostate cancer, and all to offer
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  Speaker 1: men find out by complete chance too late. So denote
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  Speaker 1: today to help fund the research that will improve the
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  Speaker 1: odds of catching prostate cancer earlier. Because men's lives shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be left to chance. So I mean, this is what
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  Speaker 1: I've posted on Facebook, and it just says thanks for
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  Speaker 1: reading this together. Lots of small donations can make one
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  Speaker 1: big donation, Kevin Daily that's me. Yes, I'll be seven
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  Speaker 1: on Monday. Now I might just add that I haven't
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  Speaker 1: got prostate cancer myself. People have been asking that, but no,
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  Speaker 1: but I have lost a couple of friends who did
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  Speaker 1: have this terrible illness.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I just thought, oh, I've seen it before.
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  Speaker 1: I decided to start this just giving page and set
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  Speaker 1: myself a target of five hundred pounds, and so far
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  Speaker 1: I've received nearly four hundred pounds. Now, the point that
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  Speaker 1: I made is that lots of little donations make one
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  Speaker 1: big donation, and I want to thank all those that
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  Speaker 1: have donated so far. But I too, I do want
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  Speaker 1: to tell you about one donation that appeared on my
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  Speaker 1: page for a one hundred pound I looked at the
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  Speaker 1: name Gary Parker. I thought I don't know anybody called
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  Speaker 1: Gary Parker, so I tracked him down, a complete stranger
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  Speaker 1: on Facebook, and sent him a massive thank you. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Gary told me he was a keen cyclist and himself
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  Speaker 1: and some of his fellow Spurs supporters have raised over
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty thousand pound for pancreat It Can
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  Speaker 1: to UK on a ride that they make every year
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  Speaker 1: called the Grand Departs Amsterdam. Now look at the garage's
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  Speaker 1: Facebook page. Is also taking part in various fundraising events,
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  Speaker 1: including a twenty kilometer walk.
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  Speaker 2: So I just want to share this story.
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  Speaker 1: And if you remember, I read out a story for
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  Speaker 1: Gemma Jemmy Niles, who was raising charity at Money for Charity,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for her daughter and She found it very
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  Speaker 1: humbling to find that total strangers were donating to her
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  Speaker 1: charity as well. So it does you know, it makes
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  Speaker 1: you feel that there are some lovely, lovely people out there.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a great thing that these people do, just
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  Speaker 1: off their own back, complete strangers.
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  Speaker 2: It's brilliant. I'm lost for words. Anyway, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to click.
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  Speaker 1: On my Facebook page and track the links down, you
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  Speaker 1: see a picture of me and my just Giving page,
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  Speaker 1: and that will wish.
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  Speaker 2: Me a very very happy birthday. Thank you very much.