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| |  Beefy's Kwick Cricket Challenge
Release Date: 5 July 2008
Sir Ian Botham is calling on schools and cricket clubs in the UK to help him beat childhood leukaemia by playing Kwik Cricket to support leading blood cancer charity Leukaemia Research. And the top fundraising teams will be put in a draw to join Beefy for the day on his next Walk for the charity this October. "It would be great if everyone could get together and organise a Kwik Cricket contest to help me beat this terrible disease," says Sir Ian.
Sir Ian is dusting down his trainers and setting off in October 2008 on another legendary walk and the summer cricket contests are part of his fundraising efforts for Leukaemia Research this year.
As a guide a donation of £1 per player from each team to enter is suggested, but don’t stop there! Players can get sponsored to play in fancy dress or for each run scored. The quickest way to organise this is as a knock out tournament.
The winning team from each school or cricket club will have their name and photo in the 'hall of fame' on www.bothamwalk.com.
The public can also get behind Beefy by joining him on his walk in October 2008 when he is taking in nine towns across the UK.
While he will walk alone on the first part of his walk each day which starts at the town's Marks & Spencer store, for the first time this year the public can join him for the second half to walk the last few miles with him in exchange for sponsorship.
'Beefy's Great British Walk - Against Childhood Leukaemia' will take place across the UK from 10-18 October taking in Taunton, Windsor, Tunbridge Wells, Bury St Edmunds, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Llandudno, Harrogate and Milngavie (nr Glasgow). The 2008 Walk finishes in Durham, where he ended his professional cricket career.
Sir Ian, President of Leukaemia Research, has raised over £10 million for the charity so far.
He says: "In 1985, when I first started walking to raise funds for Leukaemia Research, the survival rate for children with leukaemia was 20 percent; now the survival rate is 80 percent.
"Join me to fundraise and together we will help beat this terrible disease. I am determined to see all children survive in my lifetime."
But he cannot achieve this without the help of the public.
Sir Ian says: "I need people to organise Kwik Cricket events or to sign up to walk with me and together we can make this my best fundraiser ever."
Places on each stage of the walk will fill up quickly. If you would like to play Kwik Cricket or to join Sir Ian on one of his walks please contact Andy Butler on 020 7685 5133, email abutler@lrf.org.uk or visit www.bothamwalk.com.
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