Thanks to all these fantastic clubs

Flyers!!

Front

Back

So here it is! 

Our flyer for the 92 footie grounds in 92 hours event for Invest In ME and the UK Rituximab Trial for M.E. -please feel free to distribute/share etc!!

First batch of 300+ being printed (postcard size, front and back attached here) ready to be handed out at the grounds and to the press!

Big thanks to Ian Couch yet again for being a massive help with this.

Hope you all like it!

Team Photos!

Taken on the pitch at Bristol Manor Farm FC today here are our official team photos for the flyers and press!

Our Flag!

Our flag for the event!

Will be doing photos for the flyer and for a fresh push to tv, papers, radio and the remaining football clubs!

Will post team photos tomorrow hopefully!

Payday Push!!

Big Payday Push!!!

Hey all, it's payday!!!!

If you'd like to support our event and help fund the Rituximab trial then maybe have one pint less tonight and visit justgiving.com/teams/strobl !! or Text 'IIME92' and £1 to 70070 to donate

1. You'll be contributing to a fantastic cause!
2. You'll feel a tiny bit less hungover tomorrow
3. Your liver will be very grateful
4. You'll get a 'shout out' on this page for your kind generosity

Already sponsored us?

Please help share our page and get us up to 500 followers by the end of the weekend!

Currently we're on £1232, would be amazing to get to £1500 by Monday!! Just a couple of quid will make all the difference.

Thanks again for all your support!

Team 92

Appeal for press contacts!!

Another appeal for help!!

Thanks all for your help with the clubs -as you can see the responses have been trickling through nicely!

We're now appealing to anyone who has a contact for the following:

bbc regional news
itv regional news
bbc or local commercial radio
regional newspapers
any other form of press that might interview us on the day or publish on their website to raise awareness!

any contacts you know please email kid_a18@hotmail.com and info@investinme.org 

We'll be emailing and bugging all of the regional itv, bbc and sky news desks on twitter this week but always helps if you know someone there!!

Please like/share/pass about!

Thanks guys!

Team 92

Flag!!

Our flag is being made for photo's at the grounds! Slightly tweaked from this picture but it will look a lot like this!

Like it??

Appeal for contacts -do you know anyone who can help?

Hey folks

We've had a good chat with IiME this week and come up with some great ideas to raise awareness and hopefully sponsorship for the event.

What we are short of are contacts at some of the football clubs and magazines.

So just wanted to throw it out there; do you know anyone who works at one of the clubs we're visiting?

We've got some leads to follow up for Crystal Palace, Millwall and Norwich so far but any other shouts would be fantastic.  Afterall these clubs probably get a lot of emails/letters that they can't/won't always respond to so it would be good to grab their attention!

There's a good chance that if they are interested in helping in some way (photo opportunity, sponsorship, petrol assistance etc) then we can get them good exposure on the IiME website and from the TV and Radio interviews we will be doing.

Will be publishing a revised route with actual times of arrival at each ground.

The aim is to co-incide with some of the bigger clubs matchdays e.g. Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal etc to maximise publicity/get in the matchday programme.

Likewise if you work for a sports/football magazine and know someone who would be interested in giving us some coverage/spreading the word then we'd love to hear from you!

If you can think of someone it would be great if you could get in touch on twitter/fbook or email (kid_a18@hotmail.com).

cheers all, proper update for you soon

Team 92

3 months to go, much to be done!

2014! Little over 3 months to go until our crazy challenge for Invest In ME and the Rituximab Trial!!

Hi to all new visitors!  We're working hard to organise events at the grounds, sort accommodation, corporate sponsorship, press exposure, hire car, packed lunches etc etc.

To find out what this is about then have a look at our older posts on the site and feel free to ask questions through our contact page on the right hand side.

Just a quick reminder of how to donate and follow the event until Kick Off;

To donate....

• please visit https://www.justgiving.com/teams/strobl and choose which team member you'd like to support.
• text 'IIME' to 70070 and the amount you'd like to donate
• but pay outside of justgiving.com and after the event, email us at our contact us section
• for a copy of the official sponsorship form to distribute or fill in please go to the contact us section

To follow on facebook go to www.facebook.com/92forME

To follow on twitter our ID is @92forME

There'll be regular updates, would be great if you could 'like', 'retweet', email to your friends and enemies etc.

We've had over 1000 visitors to the site so far, how amazing would it be if each visitor donated £1 to the cause!

The trial has less than £75K left to be raised from its original £350K target -how great would you feel about helping them get over the line and change thousands of people's lives??!  Pretty damn great I'd say.

Cheers for your support!

Team 92.

Road Rage

So, we've decided that for every outburst of foul-mouthed expletive-ridden road rage the driver in question on the trip will have to donate 50p to the cause.



Sounds like a small amount of money until you consider that I recently came 2nd in an office of 12 for swearing the most in the month of October (this ended up costing me close to £30!).

As a famous corporate behemoth with absence of morality enjoys to claim; 'Every Little Helps'

Mike

Sponsorship and Social Media update from 92

hey all, apologies, a little quiet our end as we're waiting to hear back from some of the celebs, clubs and associations we've approached so far. 

We have already hit 15% of our £2K target without really pushing it on people/promoting it fully, which is great news. One team member left to get set up with justgiving which will happen this week.

Lots of donations from people we've never met too which is superb. If you'd like to make a donation (anything is amazing) then follow the link below!

https://www.justgiving.com/teams/strobl

Please pass this page on to anyone you think might be interested in what we're doing, the more followers the better! 50 on FB, 134 on Twitter (@92forme) so far which is a great start.

Cheers all

Mike

'92 in 92' given Invest in ME Matrix Slot 92!

The folks at Invest in ME have come up with a great way of tracking and incentivising people to help raise the money needed for the Rituximab trial.

You can keep track of all fundraising events that are aiming to help raise awareness and funds for the trial, here's how it works:

http://www.ukrituximabtrial.org/IIMEUKRT%20Matrix.htm

Also check out the individual events through the link below and please help promote and support them as much as you are with this one!

http://www.ukrituximabtrial.org/IIME%20UK%20Rituximab%20Trial%20Matrix%2001.htm

They're now up to £266K of the £350K needed, not far to go now -to donate please check out the justgiving pages on the right!

Thanks

Team 92

London Calling!

Wow, I think it's fair to say that we all know a bit more about tubes and trains after a marathon planning session to fit in the 12 or so London clubs!

Here is our route for travel across the capital -if anyone can spot any major errors then do let us know in the comments section!

We've also bumped troublesome outlier Gillingham to Day 3 as Day 2 was looking like a whopper and we're now staying at Heathrow so as to get to Brentford and Reading quickly the next morning.

Londonium Clubs

Crystal Palace (SE25 6PU, Norwood jct)

Wimbledon (KT1 3PB, Berrylands)

QPR (W12 7PJ, Wood Lane)

Chelsea (SW6 1HS, Fulham Broadway)

Fulham (SW6 6HH, Putney Bridge)

Brentford (TW8 0NT, Brentford)

Leyton Orient (E10 5NF, Leyton)

Millwall (SE16 3LN, South Bermondsey)

Dagenham & Redbridge (RM10 7XL, Dagenham East)

West Ham Utd (E13 9AZ, Upton Park)

Charlton Athletic (SE7 8BL, Charlton)

Arsenal (N5 1BU, Arsenal)

Tottenham (N17 OAP, White Hart Lane)

heathrow to qpr 
(piccadilly line to hammersmith, change to circle/hammersmith to wood lane)
43 mins

qpr to chelsea
(wood lane to hammersmith, district line to earls court, earls court to fulham broadway)
22 mins

chelsea to fulham
(fulham broadway, district line to putney bridge)
4 mins

fulham to wimbledon
(putney bridge to wimbledon, district line then overground to Berrylands)
26 mins

wimbledon to crystal palace
(berrylands overground to clapham jct, overground to Norwood jct)
40 mins

crystal palace to millwall
(norwood jct overground to canada water, canada water to south bermondsey, jubilee)
30 mins

millwall to charlton
(south bermondsey to london bridge, overground then london bridge to charlton, overground)
32 mins

charlton to west ham
(charlton to london bridge, overground then jubilee to west ham then district to upton park)
39 mins

west ham to dagenham 
(upton park to dagenham east, district)
16 mins

dagenham to leyton orient
(dagenham east to west ham, district then west ham to stretford, jubilee then stretford to leyton, central)
45 mins

leyton orient to tottenham
(leyton, walk to leyton midland road then overground to blackhorse road then victoria to seven sisters then overground to white hart lane)
45 mins

tottenham to arsenal 
(white hart lane to seven sisters, overground then victoria to finsbury park then piccadilly to arsenal)
20 mins

arsenal to heathrow
(arsenal to heathrow, piccadilly)
30 mins

The Rituximab Trial

For full info on the trial and its effects so far click on link below:

http://www.ukrituximabtrial.org/ - £264K raised so far, £86K to go!

We believe that the UK needs a rituximab trial, both to benefit UK patients and to support the international effort. With your help, we can make this happen.  At the 2012 Invest in ME international ME conference IiME announced we were looking into starting a rituximab trial in the UK. We have spent the last year working on that idea as part of our efforts in setting up a  Uk examination and research facility for ME in Norwich. On 6 June 2013, we announced that we were initiating a UK rituximab trial and began fundraising for it.

ADLIB Recruitment - First Event Sponsor!

The lovely peeps at ADLIB (www.adlib-recruitment.co.uk) have agreed to be a sponsor for our event and tweet/plug/promote to the hilt.

In return we'll be slapping their logo on our t-shirts, flags, car, website and anything else we can fit it on.

Further discussions as to what they're willing to help us with are happening but for now it's a great start!

Cheers guys!


If you would like to contribute in some way or know a company that does then please make contact in the comments section below.