On Saturday (9th July) the ‘DNA Dawdlers’, otherwise know as Sarah and Katie, took part in the Rowcroft Hospice Sleep Walk along with 1500 other women and a giant sheep named ‘Barbara’. We have been working with Rowcroft since October last year to produce the Sleep Walk campaign material and website so we were really excited to be part of the big event. The atmosphere on the night was amazing and it was an incredible sight to see so many women dressed in their PJs all determined to have a great time and raise money for such a worthy cause.

The ten mile route took us from Occombe Farm through Cockington and along the harbour to Kents Cavern where we walked through the caves (our favourite part of the walk). From Kents it was back along the harbour before climbing the hill up Headland Park Road, along Sandringham Gardens and Preston Down Road then heading back to Occombe Farm for a much needed bacon sarnie.

The Sleep Walk event has seen sponsorship pledged currently standing at an amazing £130,000 – that’s a whopping £170,000 including Gift Aid! This money will help secure the future of Rowcroft and the end of life care that they to provide. It’s not too late to donate, you can support the DNA Dawdlers here or find out more about Rowcroft and the services and support that they provide by visiting www.rowcrofthospice.org.uk.

A huge “Thank you” to everyone that helped us smash our target, donating for such a worthy cause. At 121% of our target, DNA’s ‘Row Yellow: Rowing for Rowcroft’ charity event raised a fantastic £1146.41 (including gift aid) as the DNA team took turns to row the distance of The Channel and back again! 9.5 hours of sweat and aching bottoms later and the team had reached the magic 60 miles, with the whole event streamed live!

So again, thank you to those who donated – we really appreciate your support and Rowcroft Hospice will use your donations to continue their fantastic work. See the final slo-mo stretch on our YouTube page

Or relive the experience here on UStream and scroll down to the recent videos.

Thank you to everyone who donated to our ‘Go Yellow’ fund raising campaign in aid of Rowcroft Hospice – it’s been a fantastic success!

With your help, DNA raised £876, that’s 125% of our £700 target! As promised, when we reached each donation target, we underwent a forfeit – the last of which was a Banana Skinny-Dip in the sea! You can see that video as well as Jim’s deadly Banana Yellow Smoothie task and Paul’s ‘Banana & Custard’ Gunging below as well as on our DNA Advertising YouTube Channel! Our donation page is still open if you would like to contribute, again a big thank you to all who already have. Until next year…

Check our dedicated ‘Go Yellow‘ blog page to find out what we’ll be getting up to in order to raise money for Rowcroft Hospice…
Make sure you vote and DONATE to make it happen!!!! Please Donate here for a good cause: http://www.justgiving.co.uk/dnagoyellow