No Luck with Rainforest Foundation too!

I wrote to Nick Tuchband this afternoon and an hour later, he rang me up! That was very prompt of him. Unfortunately, the rules of the NY marathon has changed this year, even small charities like Nick's have to pay a premium to have running packs too! This year all the race packs for NY marathon is held by this company Sports Tours, affiliation or subsidiary of Real Buzz.

I knew about this route, but was hoping for something else. Guess if I would like to run, I would have to commit to this.

Quoting Nick Tuchband :

Hi Ulugange,

Please find details of Sports Tours International. They have a variety of marathons and then you can raise money directly for your preferred cause. 0870 350 1106

I will add your name to our database for future events.

Kind regards
Nick

PS we have a 10K on 16 September so feel free to come along and run with us on that for fun

Nick Tuchband - Events & Marketing Manager
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The Rainforest Foundation
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7485 0193
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From: Ulugange [mailto:xxx@ucl.ac.uk]
Sent: 27 March 2007 15:22
To: Nick Tuchband
Subject: running in New York maraton 2007



Hey Nick

I was wondering if there is still any available place to run for your charity organization.

I have a unique case there. Initially I was hoping to run for this volunteering program: Sepilok Orang Utan Conservatory Program (Sept 2008) in New York Marathon 2007. It is my 2007 personal resolution to run and complete a marathon. Unfortuntely, it proved to be tough due to the entry requirement to the race. So far I have yet to find any possible avenue of getting on the race, unless I pay for my own race pack and travel (£900). I thought maybe these fund (which I am going to raise anyway) can be rasied for better use for organizations like yours (I know it would be more than £900), but with the hopeful condition that you allow the remaining fund raised out of the mininum fund would go to my volunteering fund (which 78%-80% of the £2,800 is for the conservation of orphan Orang Utan in Sabah, remaining 20% is for my food and logging in the sanctuary).

I hope that you and your organization would be able to explore this option with me. I would be more than happy to pay you a visit or have a chat on the phone to further discuss how we can go about this. It is my sincere wish that as little as a young earnest person like me can do, I hope that it would still somewhat contribute to the betterment of the rainforest conservation, in particular the orang utan rehabilitation.

Just a quick question, how much is the mininum fund that I need to raise for Rainforest Foundation for the participantion to be paid for?

Certainly hope to hear from you soon,
Ulugange

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Ulugange
MPhil/PhD Student
Institute of Neurology
University College London
Queen Square
London WC1N 3BG

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