Webmarteers go the Extra Mile
Webmarteers completed a 24 hour charity endurance challenge to walk, cycle, row or run the distance between its Bicester and East Kilbride offices taking into account a visit to its Barnsley office - a total of 377 miles. The team smashed the target to cover a grand total of 1,022 miles! The miles were covered at gym locations throughout the UK including Webmart's new in-house fitness centre at Bicester.
The event was launched by Alice Freeman, bronze medallist in the 2007 World and European Rowing Championships.
Customers and suppliers were invited to sponsor Webmart on this challenge to raise funds for SpecialEffect, one of The Webmart Charitable Trust's chosen charities. SpecialEffect is a small national charity dedicated to helping people with major physical disabilities to have the freedom to express themselves via cutting edge technology including eye control computers.
After the event, Dr Mick Donegan of SpecialEffect wrote:
" I just wanted to say a huge heartfelt thank you and your amazing colleagues at all of the Webmart offices - north, south, and far north.
To say that you've given over and above the call of duty is an understatement. Since I phoned this first thing morning and heard that you'd gone on and on and on through the night and some of you had done so with hardly any sleep and then when I rang at lunchtime and found that you done over a *1000 miles between you, I really couldn't believe it. In fact, I honestly can't even think about it without choking up. I feel genuinely humbled and privileged that our charity was chosen to be been helped in this truly challenging and demanding way.
You are a remarkable group of people. Not only will the funds that you've raised be of immense benefit to the severely disabled people our small team does our best to support but, equally importantly to us, the morale boost that having such a wonderful bunch of people prepared to give up their time AND energies in this way gives us is immense.
Please pass this on to all of your terrific colleagues - again, many, many thanks for a truly remarkable achievement on our behalf and, just imagine - if you could have got Spiderman to do a bit less posing and a bit more running, goodness knows how many miles you'd have covered.
Mick and the SpecialEffect Team "
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