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Dear All,

For your information I am trying to raise £10,000 to provide cover for the disabled and special needs supporters at Plainmoor. Unfortunately, whilst they have a decent enough area it is exposed to the elements and therefore get soaked when it rains. It isn't as if they can move anywhere else. With help from the TUST, the club and Robert Owen Communities (ROC) a design is being finalised so that these special supporters can watch the match in the same manner we can when raining etc, in the dry. A builder from the South Hams, Neil Palmer has offered to do the work at cost price. I have opened up a donation page at http://crowdfunding.justgiving.com/sam-balsdon and in order to encourage donations I am hoping to complete the Spitsbergen marathon on June 4th. The most northerly marathon (on land ) in the world. All details of this fund raising effort are on this page. This has just started off and I only need another £9925 to achieve the aim. I consider the disabled and special needs supporters as the best, no supporters make more effort to get to see the Gulls. They should have at least the same degree of comfort we do, if not even better. Thank you. Sam
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As my wife is disabled, this is something quite close to my heart. Closer to pay day, expect to see something coming from me.
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What a fantastic cause!

I will post a link on The Yellow Army page on Facebook this evening to try and boost the funds raised.
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Sorry, Yes I left off the https:// - thanks Rob.
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Ten grand at cost price? My heated, humidity controlled double garage didn't cost that retail. Next time I'm down I'll knock something up for £500. The rest of the cash can go the Players Fund.

Anyway, you say they're not getting a fair deal, I'd say they're getting the traditional Accrington Stanley away experience.

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Great idea...bear in mind about this new stadium. 10000 grand seems a lot also tried get any sponsor ship ...
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ferrarilover wrote:Ten grand at cost price? My heated, humidity controlled double garage didn't cost that retail. Next time I'm down I'll knock something up for £500. The rest of the cash can go the Players Fund.

Anyway, you say they're not getting a fair deal, I'd say they're getting the traditional Accrington Stanley away experience.

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I don't want to gt into any politics but I just want to say the TUST have been very helpful in this, especially Michael Goulbourne. £10,000 is the high end of the cost and if it is not so much then any excess can perhaps be put towards upgrading other aspects of the disabled/special needs facilities eg. a hoist in the toilet etc.
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samuel wrote:Dear All,

For your information I am trying to raise £10,000 to provide cover for the disabled and special needs supporters at Plainmoor. Unfortunately, whilst they have a decent enough area it is exposed to the elements and therefore get soaked when it rains. It isn't as if they can move anywhere else. With help from the TUST, the club and Robert Owen Communities (ROC) a design is being finalised so that these special supporters can watch the match in the same manner we can when raining etc, in the dry. A builder from the South Hams, Neil Palmer has offered to do the work at cost price. I have opened up a donation page at crowdfunding.justgiving.com/sam-balsdon and in order to encourage donations I am hoping to complete the Spitsbergen marathon on June 4th. The most northerly marathon (on land ) in the world. All details of this fund raising effort are on this page. This has just started off and I only need another £9925 to achieve the aim. I consider the disabled and special needs supporters as the best, no supporters make more effort to get to see the Gulls. They should have at least the same degree of comfort we do, if not even better. Thank you. Sam

If you contact Skybluegull, he might still be able to help. He was looking to do something similar until Bill Phillips tried to shift the goalposts on him ;-)
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Having a humidity controlled and heated garages sounds like someone has a cannabis factory going on at home,which would explain alot about said individual
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That behaviour is not tolerated here. I see Dave has dealt accordingly.

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Post by tomogull »

I have dragged this thread up from the depths 'cos I think the fundraising that Samuel is doing via the Spitzbergen Marathon to provide cover for people with physical difficulties is fantastic and also because I have come up with a cunning plan ! As we all know, Saturday's match was the last of the season but why not pretend there's one more match and add the entrance money, or part of it, to Samuel's sponsorship? Good idea, eh? I shall definitely be putting my money where my mouth is !

Note to Samuel - on looking up Google, I see that polar bears can run up to 18.6 miles an hour. So unless you can manage 18.7 miles an hour, it might be rather premature to buy an 'early bird' season ticket for next year if you catch my drift ...... (i'd give you a wink, but I seem to have lost my smiley whatsits)
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