Ian and Alexander Mortimore
Ian and Alexander Mortimore
By Green Hill Arts
One of our Patrons and local Historian, Ian Mortimer picked up on our call out for help to raise a five figure sum, to keep us, our projects and outreach work going having been unsuccessful with a recent Arts Council (ACE) grant application.
Not content to simply offer words of support he has decided, alongside his son Alexander, to RUN a MARATHON!!
Ian’s words -
“Recently it was brought to my attention that our local arts organisation here in Moretonhampstead, Green Hill Arts is desperately in need of money. So it seemed like a good idea to try and raise some cash for them by doing a sponsored run. So on 7 November, Alexander and I are going to run the Exeter Marathon for this great cause.
Please would you consider sponsoring us? We will totally understand if this is a bad time to ask, and you’re out of cash, or saving up for Christmas. But if there’s any chance you could help us to help Green Hill Arts, we would be very grateful. However small a sum you can spare, please do donate it. If you can stretch to £1 per mile, please do – it’s less painful than running a mile. Maybe you can afford £2 per mile? Just think, after running 18 or 19 miles, you’d probably happily part with that much just to be able to stop. Of course, if you have oodles of money in the bank, please hand over loads of it – as much as you possibly can. Gringotts doesn’t need it. Green Hill Arts is a much better cause.
We haven’t set a target amount to raise on our justgiving.com page - https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/ianmortimer – because if we were to reach it, there would be a risk of complacency. Green Hill Arts urgently needs to raise a five-figure sum and if we were to fall short, that wouldn’t exactly be uplifting. Since Alexander hasn’t run a marathon before, and I have only run two, we’re going to need all the encouragement we can get. These things always seem like wonderful ideas when you first dream them up – and after about ten miles, the gloss starts to peel off the ‘wonderfulness’. “
PLEASE donate what you can to them both for taking on this challenge – we, and they, would be hugely grateful. Please spread the word!