Team Bertie: Like father, like son
We’ve been blown away this week by the newest members of Team Bertie: Nick McCoy, David Taylor and Luke Moorcroft who will be taking on the West Lancashire Summer Triathlon this August in aid of Bertie’s Buccaneers. They’ll be running, cycling and swimming around the glorious Edge Hill University campus to raise funds to find a cure for children like […]
Continue readingWin Free tickets to the JustSo! Festival 2016 #HighSeas
Update: the winner will be announced shortly. Just waiting to hear back from our judges. xx Update!!! This competition has now closed. The entries have been sent to the Seas of Mirth and we will announce the winner very soon 🙂 Bertie’s Buccaneers are fighting to fund a cure for Ullrich muscular dystrophy. Our wonderful […]
Continue readingThree little monkeys
We’re regular festival goers and have been camping at the JustSo! Festival for years now. [We’re giving away a free family day ticket for 2016 in our competition click here!] We’ve met lots of great bands there including: Thingumabob and the Thingumajigs, the Seas of Mirth and Electric Swing Circus. Recently Rob from the Thingumajigs […]
Continue readingHow your donation helps
When you donate to Bertie’s Buccaneers Family Fund for Muscular Dystrophy UK your kindness goes directly into a research fund for Ullrich CMD. In the future we also hope to raise enough to support assistive technology to make life easier for disabled children. Here are some examples given by MDUK of what your contribution helps […]
Continue readingLongest zipwire in Europe – yes please!
Update: They did it! What an amazing way to launch Team Bertie. Thank you, Amanda, Stuart, Jack and Millie. xx Bertie’s Auntie Amanda surprised herself when she decided that flinging herself down the longest zipwire in Europe (and the fastest in the World) was a great idea for getting Team Bertie off […]
Continue readingOlympic Park here we come!
Bertie won a ballot place in the ‘open ballot for Parallel London. We can’t wait for this fantastic, inclusive, push/run event in London this September. Bertie will be spinning his wheels around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in order to raise money for Bertie’s Buccaneers Family Fund (for Muscular Dystrophy UK). He has raised a […]
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