Action Medical Research



PRESS RELEASE

[INSERT DATE] 2019

Teams trek [Cotswold Way/ South Downs Way] overnight in midnight challenge for children’s charity

Walkers who hiked by moonlight to complete the [INSERT NAME] challenge are expected to raise almost/more than [INSERT NUMBER ROUNDED UP/DOWN AS APPROPRIATE] for children’s charity Action Medical Research.

Competitors set out at midnight from [INSERT WHERE] and trekked through the night covering a tough 40-mile route and taking on various challenges to score bonus points along the way.

Teams came from as far away as [INSERT APPROPRIATE EXAMPLE] to take part in the event and included a mix of corporate teams and groups of friends.

The [INSERT NAME] team, from [INSERT LOCATION], beat [INSERT NUMBER] other teams to achieve the highest overall score and take the title of [INSERT NAME] 2016 Champions.

Meanwhile the [INSERT NAME] team, from [INSERT LOCATION], were the fastest team. They completed the event in an incredible time of [INSERT TIME], crossing the finish line at [INSERT TIME].

Event organiser [INSERT NAME], from Action Medical Research, said: “[INSERT AN APPROPRIATE QUOTE TO CONVEY THE SUCCESS OF THE EVENT]”

Action Medical Research is a UK-wide children’s charity which funds desperately needed research to tackle the diseases that devastate the lives of so many of our children. It has been funding medical breakthroughs since it began in 1952 including helping to introduce the first polio vaccines in the UK, developing the use of ultrasound in pregnancy and testing the rubella vaccine.

The charity is currently funding research into areas including premature birth, epilepsy, asthma, scarlet fever, cerebral palsy, brain cancer and some rare and distressing conditions.

For information on Trek the Night in aid of Action Medical Research, please visit .uk/events/trek-the-night

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For more information on Action Medical Research, please contact Peter Denton, Fundraising Communications Officer, on:

T 01403 327412

E pdenton@.uk

W .uk

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Action Medical Research is a leading UK-wide charity saving and changing children’s lives through medical research. For more than 65 years we’ve helped pioneer ways to prevent disease and develop treatments benefiting millions of people. Our research has helped to beat polio in the UK, develop ultrasound in pregnancy, fight meningitis and prevent stillbirths. But we urgently need to develop more new treatments and cures for sick babies and children and we can’t do it without you.

Join our fight for little lives today.

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