Challenge Archie by holding a life-saving event 

To save you wading through the website to find the whys and the wherefores of the Challenge, the summary of the reasons for my Challenge and how to challenge me are below.

This Page is split into sections with the hyperlinks below taking you directly to the information you need: 

  1. Why Archie is Asking You to Challenge Him to Play Golf And Make Music.
  1. The Life-saving Event Concept.
  1. How Many Lives Does Archie Hope to Save With His Challenge?
  1. Do I Have To Have A Life-saving Event Every Month?
  1. Can I Form A Life-saving Group With Just a Group Of Friends Rather Than in a Club or Large Group of People?
  1. Do I Have to Organise a Life-saving Event At All?  Can’t I just sponsor you?
  1. In Summary.
  1. Depositing Life-saving Monies Raised to the Challenge.
  1. Setting Up a Standing Order for Individual Sponsors.
  1. Accountability.

 

Why Archie is Asking You to Challenge Him to Play Golf And Make Music. 

 I have been left brain damaged by my terminal brain tumour, its treatment and each and every one of the more severe epileptic seizures. With continuing medical appointments with specialists ranging from Oncology, Neurology, Endocrinology, Epilepsy specialists and Neuropsychology, and after the many scans and tests required for evidence including an EEG, it was confirmed that, contrary to popular belief, I do have a brain, but also confirmed that there is a lot of unusual electrical activity around it, and in particular around the areas of damage deep into the central part of the brain and the right temporal lobe. As s result I can confirm that I remain clear of the brain tumour, but remain under supervision, as the expectation very much remains that my tumour will return, that I will, one day die, because of this brain tumour.  As a result I continue to follow my balanced daily lifestyle in the hope of preventing my brain tumour from returning yet still battle with epilepsy and the medication for it,  with SMART syndrome and a number of neurological dysfunctions. The net results of these conditions are as follows: 

Whenever I try to turn my mind to something for any length of time, like a conversation, or listening to the radio, or writing an email on the computer for any longer than twenty minutes, the fog drifts in like the haar off the North Sea. I feel cast adrift at sea with my brain gently moving in the swell of the sea, the computer starts to bob on the ocean swell while the image on the screen starts to move independently of the computer or, if a conversation is the cause, the room will start to move while the talking head moves independently within it, making me feel horribly dizzy, and if I don’t stop trying to work or talk through it, my sight inevitably starts to close in, my speech starts to fail, I stop being able to swallow, my motor function down my left side starts to fail and my hearing starts to fade. A SMART attack is triggered, making me look and sound much like a stroke victim. Allie has carried me, sometimes literally, through too many of these SMART attacks which leave me like a man who has had far too much to drink, unable to speak, to walk, and sometimes even to stand. Allie has had to undress me and remove my contact lenses and tuck me into bed after force feeding large amounts of diluted Aspirin into me to thin the blood further, to try to bring me down from the SMART attack more times than I would like. The SMART attacks come in rashes of two or three after sometimes many weeks without one, but always knock me off my feet for a day or so afterwards. 

I also have frequent bouts of chronic fatigue brought on by my condition, my medication and just over doing it. It can see me plummeting into sleep so very quickly and with little warning, from sitting to sleeping in the blink of an eye. During such bouts of fatigue I start to lose control of my motor function and struggle to coordinate my limbs leading to clumsy staccato movements across a floor before descending rapidly into slumber.

Ice-pick headaches drive hard into my brain randomly and without warning, often forcing me to my knees or to a chair, or to slump over a table or my desk so very quickly.  

Random and hard-hitting bouts of twitching that can shake the whole core of my body viciously, contort the body into horribly bizarre and very painful shapes, or see me slamming my limbs into walls or furniture without warning. They have seen me throw a programme across a theatre, food across the kitchen, a medical tool tray across the dentist’s clinic or other items across a room. They come hard and with little or no notice. 

Bouts of intense pain in my chest, limbs or face, a form of neuralgia triggered merely by the brain. No test has found any other reason for such pain.   

 I am constantly distracted by epileptic auras that bubble through me daily, overwhelming all my senses and leaving me confused and breathless, before shortly recovering. My cheeks are almost constantly fuzzing and my left ear, the only one that can hear properly has a popping like the changing of air pressure popping that pops in and out of my ear randomly through the day. So I live each day with these mild distractions on top of the harder hitting dysfunctions and attacks. 

I can find myself in random places doing random things during the day and wake having no idea why my hand is in the peanut butter tub or my head in the fridge for example. No idea what I am doing, where or why.

I can find myself having to strip off in the midst of yet another hot flush. 

My brain will randomly trip and send me tumbling sideways into whatever I manage to catch or fall into. 

I get horribly confused with the simple things like up and down, left and right, front and back, speed and distance and, dangerously, red means go and green means stop. Thank goodness we now live in North Berwick with slow moving traffic because three times I have stepped out into moving traffic and all three times with my high vis tabard and Cocoa, my assistance dog in her tabard, the traffic stopped and waved me through. I have been warned that I will probably never get my driving licence back. I have been certified as unemployable by both the NHS and MoD unless, as my neuropsychologist concluded after a battery of tests, whoever employed me did so along with a PA and chaise longue with an expectation that I would use it three times a day.  

 And yes, after twelve months of chemo ingested through my stomach, I remain horribly windy 😔

With all these symptoms combined, which I have lovingly nicknamed my ‘twobbles’ after twitches, wobbles and bobbles,  I can, at times, feel like a nonagenarian with a mild case of Alzheimer’s going through the menopause. 

I was never expected to survive so no rehabilitation plan was every put in place. However Help for Heroes sent a team to assess me and see how they might help me rehabilitate. They concluded that learning to play Golf and learning to play a musical instrument were the best tonics for my particular maladies. They then set in motion, through Battleback Golf, membership of the Glen Golf Club which is just a fifteen minute walk from my door, provision of golf clubs and essential golf clothing plus a golf lesson a month from the professional golfer at the Haddington Golf Club which I can easily get to by bus.  I picked the most complicated musical instrument I could think of for maximum brain rehabilitation benefit, the pipe organ, and as a result St Baldred’s, my church in North Berwick, have lent me a key to get access to the organ at any time and my amazing wife, Allie, found a chapel organ being given away by a lady in Aberlour. Allie arranged the collection and the servicing. I now have a two manual full pedal, electrical chapel organ in a spare room of our house. Whenever Allie leaves the house for a run, walk or shop I love to turn the volume up and see if I can’t sound like an organ in a cathedral. Thank goodness for double glazing to protect our neighbours 😊 I can confirm that I find both golf and the organ particularly difficult to master and perhaps may never master either of them, but certainly, I thoroughly enjoy trying, and am starting to see the neurological benefits of hard work on the golf course and on the organ. In fact I find both Golf and Music strangely cathartic and can now sustain myself happily for eighteen holes around a golf course. I am learning to play some lovely organ tunes. 

With the immensely patient help and support of Allie, I have finally learned to bring balance into my life to ensure that I can sustain myself for a day’s work.  I live life in twenty-minute segments. By using a timer set to twenty minutes I work for twenty minutes before taking a very short walk of less than a mile breathing deeply, then another twenty minutes work before a short brisk, deep-breathing walk of between a mile to two miles, however long I need to clear the fog. Then another twenty minutes work then a twenty-minute siesta before repeating the work, very short walk, work, short walk, work, siesta sequence. By following this sequence I have managed to bring a significant amount of balance into each day in order to reduce the frequency and severity of my twobbles while remaining productive. Despite the frustration at getting so little achieved in each and every day, certainly, not nearly as much as I used to be able to do prior to diagnosis ten years ago. By maintaining a balance in each day, I do have good days and in fact have wonderful days in which I manage to achieve small victories, like completing a task or getting out on the golf course and practicing the organ and living a day without twobbles. 

All things considered, I have a wonderful life, with a wonderful wife, in a wonderful place , yet I want to be more than just alive. I will never be the man I once was but that doesn’t mean that there is nothing I can do, that I will give up. I want to be useful once more, so strive, through learning to play golf and learning to play the pipe organ to become neurologically strong enough to become useful again.

Having recently discovered that £80 will purchase all the emergency shelter, bedding, clothing, rations, clean water, hygiene packs and medical packs needed to save a life through the Disasters Emergency Committee, I have stumbled upon the way in which I can become truly useful again. I want the blessing of life to be a blessing that I can pass onto hudreds of thousands of people who need help at the most desperate times of their lives, when houses crumble, when towns and villages are seemingly wiped from the face of the earth, when society fails, at times of disaster. Disaster that, as climate change starts to bite harder, is starting to happen more frequently and more widely than one could even imagine. Resouce wars and climate change related natural disasters are becoming like a plague across the planet plunging millions of people into crisis. 

My hope and prayer is that every life saved will be like a drop of light that sends a ripple of peace, joy, love of thy neighbour and a desire to turn back the clock on climate change across the world. That if I can convince enough people to hold a life-saving event to raise £80 to save a life as often as they can, ideally once a month, I could raise £9,000,000 a month saving 112,500 people a month so sending an unstoppable Tsunami of peace, joy, love of thy neighbour, and a desire to turn the clock back on climate change across the world.

Having intonated that I will never be the man that I once was – perhaps, just perhaps, with your help, with the help of the media, with the help of sporting, musical, theatrical, and  television royalty spreading the word, inspiring and encouraging the setting up of life-saving events across the nation, then Europe and the wider world, I will be able to become a better man than I ever was. I will be able to save lives, hundreds of thousands of lives and become truly useful, again. 

 

The Life-saving Event Concept

I have been fundraising solely for the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) since the 02nd March 2018. At the time of writing, in those five years, the Challenge has managed to raise just shy of £23,000 for the DEC. and while I waited for my website volunteer to perform an upgrade to the website , I decided to find out how much it cost to save a life, and therefore, how many lives I had potentially saved so far. For the reason of differing circumstances in each and every occasion, the DEC was unable to provide a figure. So I Googled it and, after extensive research, discovered that the mean figure from across the humanitarian charities in the UK, Europe and the USA was £21,000 to save a life, once the office running, wage, pension, insurance and logistical costs et al had all been taken into account. 

Clearly I was disappointed to discover that after four years of hard work, I had only saved one life. But then it dawned on me that, having raised £23,100 at the time of discovery, I had covered all the initial costs, so therefore, surely every penny raised over that £21,000 had the potential to help save more lives, but I still had the critical question outstanding… How much more will it cost to save a life now that I have covered all the logistical and manpower costs? So, after another extensive search, this time through the DEC’s website, I discovered that to provide enough emergency shelter, bedding and clothing, clean water, rations, hygiene packs and medical packs to sustain a family for a month was, at the time of writing, £319.92. 

Then I had the problem of how large a family was. In Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Western Europe, the family sizes are all different, but in order to make sense of these figures I decided to go for the lower mean figure of 4 people in a family. This meant that it would cost £79.98 to potentially save a life and, to make the maths easier for me, I rounded it up to £80. Suddenly I had a figure that appeared to be much more achievable in order to potentially save a life. A figure which meant that I had, by that point, potentially saved 288 lives through the DEC. Those I spoke to when presented with these figures also felt £80 a much more understandable and achievable figure. A target figure that people felt that they could get their head around and that felt within reaching distance with a little effort. A figure that would encourage them to try to fundraise as they felt that they could achieve £80 in order to potentially save a life through the DEC.  

 So, I came up with an idea. Through my efforts to play Golf and make Music, as a brain-damaged veteran battling with epilepsy, SMART syndrome and a number of neurological dysfunctions each and every day, striving to play Golf at the highest level I possibly can, and striving to make Music as well as I possibly can in order to retrain and strewngthen my brain to become useful again, I hope to inspire and encourage as many people as possible to challenge me to keep battling back to becoming useful again, by holding life-saving events designed to raise £80 to save a life.  

These life-saving events could be anything: free lunches, teas, or dinners in which people pay a contribution whether through a raffle or an entrance fee or guided voluntary donations towards collectively raising £80 to save a life.  Golf Clubs could hold a life-saving day in which non-members can come to play the course for free in return for a suggested donation towards saving a life, or a golf match amongst the golf club members, or a life-saving fun match against the partners and children of the golfing members with a buffet lunch and toasts to the winner of the match and the life saved. Or a life-saving day in which non-members can pay half of the normal green fee to play a round with all proceeds going to save a life through the Challenge. Or the Golf Pro could give half-price lessons for a day with all proceeds going towards saving a life. Ideas such as these could perhaps bring golf to a wider audience. The life-saving options for golf clubs are endless, relatively easy to deliver and each event will save at least one life, possibly more. 

Musical and theatrical venues could put on life-saving shows in which ticket prices are half price with a suggested donation being made by the ticket purchaser, towards saving a life at the time of purchase, This could potentially bring live theatre and music to a wider audience. Where suggested donations towards saving a life are not forthcoming, perhaps any proceeds from the post-show collection could go towards saving a life.  The life-saving options for musical and theatrical venues are endless, realatively easy to deliver and each event will save at least one life, possibly more.

Schools could have a dress-down life-saving Friday  in which pupils pay a minimal amount for the privilege of coming in to school in fancy dress or  their own clothes rather than uniform, or for an early finish on the Friday after a school assembly in which a group of pupils present to the school on a different crisis in a different country of the world. There will be many ways in which a school can save a life, possibly many lives, while enriching the education and the lives of the pupils. 

Medium to Large businesses could perhaps have a  life-saving day in which all profits from that day’s business go to save as many lives as the profits enable. Or they could hold a families day, bringing together the families and employees of the business for a day’s fun and frolics before a meal together in which they can toast the lives they have saved from their small contribution towards the saving of a life on arrival. The senior management could also take such life-saving opportunities to update employees and their families on the outlook for the future and answer any nagging issues that there might be. The life-saving options for medium to large businesses are endless, realatively easy to deliver, and each event will save at least one life, possibly more.

Smaller businesses and high street shops could possibly have a life-saving discount day in which a discount is offered on all produce to increase footfall, with suggested donations being added by the purchaser at the time of purchase that day going to save a life or more. Again there will be so very many imaginative ways to raise the £80 needed to save a life. 

Sports clubs could run life-saving events. Events such as: 

 Juniors vs Seniors or a blended team against the parents or the veterans and coaches of the club, followed by a meal together to toast the victors and the life or lives saved through the donations given on arrival.  

Or the club could run an open day where all are welcome to come and try the sport in return for a small contribution towards the saving of a life. 

Community centres and places of worship have so many ways to raise money to save a life in the wonderful ways that they do. Every life saved would surely be a wonderful accolade for the community centre and church. They could even keep a ‘lives saved’ tally on the wall of the church or community centre to see the growing fruits of their labour. 

Retirement and care homes could all hold life-saving events in which their residents pay a nominal amount in order to join in with the life-saving event whether an excursion or special meal or party tailored specifically to their audience. Their residents would surely delight in knowing that collectively they have saved a life simply by attending that event. 

Troops of Scouts and Guides are masters of fundraising and bring so much joy to many others when they do it.  The life-saving options for troops of Scouts and Guides are endless, realatively easy to deliver, and each event will save at least one life, possibly more.

There could even be lifesaving street parties and housing estate parties. £80 is not a lot to raise and the number of ways that £80 can be raised easily by groups of people are numerous. With the Challenge being run entirely for free through the generosity of volunteers, I guarantee that every single penny of every £80 raised will go to the Disasters Emergency Committee to provide all the emergency equipment, food and water needed to save a life.  

Until we achieve world peace and reverse climate change the DEC will need masses of money each and every month with which to save lives around the world. 

That means that I would ask the catatlyst/organiser in that particular group or organisation holding a life-saving event to arrange such an event as often as they sensible and reasonably can. Ideally once a month for each and every month that I can keep playing golf and the pipe organ at the highest level I possibly can. 

In return for that named group’s commitment to saving a life every single month, I commit to writing a thank you letter to the catalyst of that group to confirm receipt of the life-saving donation and commit to come to take part in their match, event or activity and to talk to that group at some point in their lifesaving event, if they wanted me to, whenever I possibly can. Equally every named lifesaving group would secure an entry onto the lifesaving roll of honour here on this website.  

So, in summmary, I have been left brain damaged by the brain tumour, the treatment and each and every one of my more severe epileptic seizures.  I have been written off by both the NHS and the MoD as permanently unemployable. In addition I am battling to prevent my brain tumour from returning as predicted. I have life which is a wonderful thing yet, I want to be more than just alive, I want to be useful  so strive through learning to play Golf and the pipe organ to get strong enough to become useful, employable again.

Having discovered that £80 will provide everything needed to give the gift of live to somebody caught in a disaster, I have stumbled upon the way in which I can become truly useful again. I want the blessing of life to be a blessing that I can pass onto hundreds of thousands of people who need help at the most desperate times of their lives, when houses crumble, when towns and villages are seemingly wiped from the face of the earth, when society fails, at times of disaster.

 How Many Lives Does Archie Hope To Save With His Challenge?

 With the right media support, how many life-saving events could I conceivably inspire to delivery was a question in the forefront of my mind.  I turned once again to Dr Google and was delighted with the following figures: 

 As my Challenge is hinged around Golf and Music, I would start first at Golf clubs: 

 If every one of the 1,888 golf clubs in the UK held a life-saving event, they could collectively raise £151,040 potentially saving 1,888 lives. 

Then to the performing arts: 

 If every one of the 7,000 performing arts venues in the UK held a life-saving event, they could collectively raise £560,000 potentially saving 7,000 lives. 

 Then, as my Challenge will continue for as long as I can keep my brain tumour at bay and keep playing golf, making music, and attending life-saving events, I considered the NHS: 

 If every one of the 1,229 hospitals in the UK held a life-saving event, they could collectively raise £98,320 potentially saving an additional 1,229 lives on top of the thousands they save, in their hospitals, each and every day. 

 Then, as I have a wonderful back story that could inspire any child to strive harder, be kinder, to achieve …… I considered the schools: 

If every one of the 32,163 schools in the UK held a life-saving event, they could collectively raise £2,573,040 potentially saving 32,163 lives. 

Then, as my brain tumour was triggered by two blunt force traumas to the right temporal lobe, both of which concussed me while playing sport in the Army, I considered the sports clubs: 

If every one of the 9,584 sports clubs in the UK created a life-saving social group, they could collectively raise £766,720 potentially saving 9,584 lives. 

If those who need a social group to combat isolation and loneliness the most, If the 17,100 retirement and care homes in the UK, held a life-saving event each, they could collectively raise £1,368,000 potentially saving 17,100 lives. 

Then, as my son had just started studying business at Dundee University, I considered business. 

If every one of the 43,600 medium to large businesses in the UK held a life-saving event, they could collectively raise £3,488,000 potentially saving 43,600 lives. 

Therefore, If I can, get this life-saving ball rolling, the Challenge could raise at least £9,005,120 so potentially saving at least 112,564 lives through the most excellent work of the Disasters Emergency Committee. My target is to be raising, at least £9,005,120 to potentially save at least 112,564 every single month for as long as I can keep my brain tumour at bay, keep playing golf , playing the pipe organ, and attending life-saving events. 

Then of course you have all the Ships of the Royal Navy, Companies of the Infantry, Squadrons of the Cavalry and Royal Logistics Corps, Batteries of the Royal Artillery, Squadrons of the Royal Air Force, branches of the Royal British Legion, sub-units of the Salvation Army and Freemasons as well as all the Scout troops and guide troops and rotary groups and cycling groups and walking groups and social groups and places of worship and villages, towns and cities of the UK. The list of possible life-saving event locations and fundraising methods is endless and could be enormously fun and rewarding for all concerned. 

And why stop at the UK boundary? My Challenge has so far received a small number of donations from Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Holland and Belgium. If I can get this life-saving ball rolling I see no reason why I could not be seeing the holding of life-saving events around the world. After all, with climate change starting to bite harder and harder and with warfare continuing to be common place across the world, the Disasters Emergency Committee needs more life-saving monies than ever before.

 My hope and prayer is that every life saved will be like a drop of light that sends a ripple of peace, joy, love of thy neighbour and a desire to turn back the clock on climate change across the world. That if I can start to save hundreds of thousands of lives, then that drop of light becomes like an unstoppable Tsunami of light swamping the world with peace, joy, love of thy neighbour and a desire to turn back the lock on climate change that is so strong that it cannot be ignored.

So please host a life-saving event. Keep it simple and fun and deeply enriching. Please help me to become useful once more. 

 

Do I Have To Have A Life Saving Event Monthly?

 

No absolutely not, this is merely an aspiration of mine in order to save as many lives as possible in the time that I have. You could have a lifesaving event: 

 

Monthly saving twelve lives a year 

 

Bimonthly saving six lives a year 

 

Trimonthly saving four lives a year 

 

Quadmonthly saving  three lives a year 

 

Sexmonthly saving two lives a year 

 

Or just Annually. It is entirely up to you. Even if you hold an event just annually you are still saving a life each and every year for which I would be extremely grateful. 

 

Can I Form A Life-saving Group With Just a Group Of Friends Rather Than In A Club Or Large Group Of People?

 

Yes of course you can. Please do. A suggested method of doing so is as follows: You could arrange to meet up with as many family and friends as you can manage for coffee. Provide the standing order forms (found here) and while you’re having coffee you can help each other fill them out together. After coffee go to your own banks and hand them in to the teller then meet back together for lunch to celebrate the process of starting to save a life. Using the formula below if you manage to convince: 

 

Friends in your group  Monthly Amount  Months To Save A Life  Monthly Amount  Months To Save A Life 
1  £2  20 months  £5  8 months 
2  £2  13 months 9 days  £5  5 months 9 days 
3  £2  10 months  £5  4 months 
4  £2  8 months  £5  3 months 6 days 
5  £2  6 months 18 days  £5  2 months 18 days 
6  £2  5 months21 days  £5  2 months 12 days 
7  £2  5 months  £5  2 months 

 

And so the number of lifesaving options expands in accordance with your means and numbers of family and friends and acquaintances you have and your drive to save lives. Just three friends joining with you to make a donation of £2 per month each would save a life in eight months and if they could donate just £5 a month you could meet together for lunch or something three times a year to celebrate saving a life three times a year. Clearly the more people you can encourage to challenge me, through their sponsorship, to keep battling back to beat my beast of a brain tumour through Golf, Music, diet and exercise to become useful again, the more frequently you can meet for a social to celebrate the life you have saved and in so doing, enrich your own life too. Clearly, when you meet to celebrate saving a life, Cocoa and I would be delighted to come and join you for the event be it lunch or just coffee and cake, if we possibly can. 

 

Do I Have to Organise a Life-saving Event At All.  Can’t I just sponsor you?

 

Yes, you can just sponsor me. You do not have to organise a life-saving Event at all. Clearly this is my preferred method for you to raise money to save lives through the challenge, but I would be equally delighted to receive your sponsorship no matter how small the amount. I guarantee that every single penny raised will go to save lives through the Disasters Emergency Committee. 

 

It is, of course, entirely up to you how much you decide to sponsor me for and all I ask is a minimum of £1 per month. As I am asking you to complete a standing order (found here) to sponsor me, I will not receive any of your details as these are given to the bank in confidence by your bank and not me. Therefore I cannot email, call or contact you in any way to ask you to increase your sponsorship. This is my one shot to ask you to challenge me, through your sponsorship, to keep battling back to become useful again, and all I ask in these difficult financial times is £1 per month. If you can afford to sponsor me for more thus save more lives faster, then please do so, but please do not feel under any pressure to do so. As a guide I give the possible sponsorship amounts, and the requisite months and years to save a life, below: 

 

Monthly donation amount  Months to save a life  Years to save a life 
£1  80 months to save a life  6 years 7 months to save a life 
£2  40 months to save a life  3 years 3 months to save a life 
£5  16 months to save a life  1 year 4 months to save a life 
£10  8 months to save a life  1.5 lives saved per year 
£20  4 months to save a life  3 lives saved per year 
£30  2 months 18 days to save a life  4.6 lives saved each year 
£40  2 months to save a life  6 lives saved each year 
£50  1 month 18 days to save a life  7.5 lives saved a year 
£60  1 month 9 days to save a life  9.2 lives saved a year 
£70  1 month 3 days to save a life  10.9 lives saved a year 
£80  1 month to save a life  12 lives saved each year 

 

 

In Summary

 

The number of life-saving options are many and the life-saving events should be simple to organise, fun to run and be to the mutual benefit of the organiser and the attendee.  You can challenge me to keep battling back to beat my beast of a brain tumour and the damage caused, and be inspired, I hope, through my efforts to retrain and strengthen my brain, to becoming useful again, though diet, exercise, Golf and Music, to save lives, as many lives as you can, in accordance with your financial means and numbers of family and friends and acquaintances and club memberships, and the drive to save lives, that you have. The more life-saving events you can run, or the more people you can encourage to challenge me, through their sponsorship to keep battling back, the more frequently you can meet for a social to celebrate the life you have saved and in so doing, enrich your own life too. 

 Let not age, or gender, or sexual orientation, or ethnicity, or football team, or faith, or nationality be a barrier. Rich or poor, similar or different, new or old friends and acquaintances…… reach past old disagreements and stretch out our hands across our community and the world, unite to challenge Archie purely to save lives, millions of lives, around the world through the Disasters Emergency Committee. For in so doing I am becoming useful once more. If you are unsure of starting such an enriching experience, I implore you to watch my video of a Father’s advice  in the hope that it will encourage you to reach out far and wide, to break new ground and enrich your life further in the process of saving lives. 

 Thank you, I look forward to receiving the fruits of your labours to save lives and in the meantime……
Keep safe,
Keep being brilliant
And
Keeeeeeeeeeeeep smiling
Yours aye with love and tons of gratitude
Archie and Cocoa 

Archie@beathebeastchallenge.co.uk

 

 

How To Challenge Archie to Keep Battling Back To Become Useful Again With Your Life Saving Sponsorship

 

  1. Depositing Life Saving Monies Raised To The Challenge

 

Thank you so very much for all the time and effort you have put in to challenging me, to keep battling back through Golf and Music to become useful again, by saving lives with the monies you have raised. The account details you require for the deposit of your life saving monies are as follows: 

 

Payee: Beat the Beast Challenge 

Sort Code: 83-24-18 

Account Number: 15978839 

Address:
Royal Bank of Scotland
Edinburgh Leith Branch
2 Bernard Street
Leith
Edinburgh
EH6 6PU 

 

From Outside The UK 

To deposit life saving monies raised from an account outside of the UK the following details will be needed by your bank: 

Payee: Beat The Beast Challenge 

Sort Code: 83-24-18 

Account Number: 15978839 

BIC/Swift Code: RBOSGB2L 

IBAN: GB38RBOS83241815978839. 

 

 

Please Don’t Forget To: 

 

Email me on archie@beatthebeastchallenge.co.uk to inform me of your lifesaving deposit. When you do so please also remember to give me the following details: 

 

  1. let me know your name. 
  1. Are you an individual life saving donor? 
  1. If so, would you mind if I added you first name and town, County and Country of residence to the individual roll of honour on this website? 
  1. I will never reveal the amounts raised on the roll of honour. Even just one life saved makes you truly valuable and special. 
  1. Are you the Catalyst for a life-saving event? 
  1. If so what is the name of your group, what is the key focus of your group normally and what town, county and country are you based in?  
  1. I will then add your group to the lifesaving group roll of honour on this website. 
  1. I will never reveal the amounts raised on the roll of honour, the media coverage that I or yourself manages to get to your events can do that if you wish them to, but I want the roll of honour to be inclusive to all who give their time and treasure to save as many lives as they can whether one or a hundred or a thousand. Every life-saving group will have different freedoms and constraints, so it is not a competition but every life saved makes every life-saving group truly worthy of their place on the roll of honour. 

 I will then reply confirming receipt of your donation and track your donations in order to ensure that you or your life-saving group receives recognition when you reach the milestones of twelve lives saved, twenty-four lives saved, thirty-six lives saved, forty-eight lives saved and so on. 

 

Setting Up A Standing Order For Individual Sponsors

 

Thank you so very much for deciding to challenge me, through your sponsorship, to keep battling back, through Golf, Music and my balanced daily lifestyle to become useful again by saving lives with the monies you donate. 

 

Please download and print out the simple standing order form found here. Complete the unshaded boxes of the form and hand it in to your local branch of your bank, or send it to your bank at the address found in your cheque book. You can also fill out a blank standing order form found in your local branch of your bank and hand it in to the teller using the following details: 

Payee: Beat the Beast Challenge. 

Sort Code: 83-24-18 

Account Number: 15978839 

Address:
Royal Bank of Scotland
Edinburgh Leith Branch
2 Bernard Street
Leith
Edinburgh
EH6 6PU 

 From Outside The UK 

To deposit life saving monies raised from an account outside of the UK the following details will be needed by your bank: 

Payee: Beat The Beast Challenge 

Sort Code: 83-24-18 

Account Number: 15978839 

BIC/Swift Code: RBOSGB2L 

IBAN: GB38RBOS83241815978839. 

 

Please Don’t Forget To: 

 

Email me on archie@beatthebeastchallenge.co.uk to inform me of your lifesaving deposit. When you do so please also remember to give me the following details: 

 

  1. let me know your name. 
  1. Are you an individual life saving donor? 
  1. If so, would you mind if I added you first name and town, County and Country of residence to the individual roll of honour on this website? 
  1. I will never reveal the amounts raised on the roll of honour. Even just one life saved makes you truly valuable and special. 
  1. Are you the Catalyst for a life-saving group? 
  1. If so what is the name of your group, what is the key focus of your group normally and what town, county and country are you based in?  
  1. I will then add your group to the life-saving group roll of honour on this website. 
  1. I will never reveal the amounts raised on the roll of honour, the media coverage that I or yourself manages to get to your events can do that if you wish them to, but I want the roll of honour to be inclusive to all who give their time and treasure to save as many lives as they can whether one or a hundred or a thousand. Every life-saving group will have different freedoms and constraints, so it is not a competition but every life saved makes every lifesaving group truly worthy of their place on the roll of honour. 

 I will then reply confirming receipt of your donation and track your donations in order to ensure that you or your life-saving group receives recognition when you each the milestones of twelve lives saved, twenty-four lives saved, thirty-six lives saved, forty-eight lives saved and so on. 

 

Assistance 

 

If you wish to contact the Royal Bank of Scotland, you can do so on 0345 724 2424

 

Accountability

 

All funds raised will be deposited in and held by The Royal Bank of Scotland. 

The challenge in numbers boxes on the home page of this website will keep a daily tally of the monies raised. All monies are sent, and accounted for, monthly to save lives through the Disasters Emergency Committee. 

All financial reporting will be managed by Webb and Wallace Accountants and published annually on the challenge website. 

Above all I promise that every single penny you donate goes to save lives through the DEC. Not a single penny is lost to costs. Thanks to the generosity of volunteers and businesses helping me on this challenge, there are no costs.