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Rochester Santa Fun Run fundraises for charity
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24/12/2024
The annual Christmas fun run raises money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Daisy Page reports.
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Santas have filled the streets of Rochester as the Thomas Avings School hosts its annual
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festive fundraiser. Students put on their best red bobble hats and walk or run to raise
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money for Macmillan Cancer Support.
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We raised thousands of pounds over 12 years for Macmillan Cancer Support. We've been
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supporting them now for 12 years and we feel like we need to carry on supporting them to
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carry on their brilliant work. We've had 85 students run this today and they've done
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such an amazing job. Like I said earlier, this is a charity that's really close to
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our heart, Macmillan, and a lot of our families have been supported by that.
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The Santas behind me are walking and running through Rochester to raise awareness for the
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charity that supports people living with cancer and their loved ones.
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And their work doesn't stop there. They provide a vast range of information and campaign to
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influence decision makers on cancer-related policies.
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The Santa Fun Run supports the work that they do, and each student taking part is helping
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to make a difference one step at a time.
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Students get so much out of this. It's one of the biggest events that we do at Thomas
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Aveline for Resolute House and it really connects with some of them because a lot of their maybe
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parents or grandparents have had help from the charity Macmillan and they really love
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to support it and they get really excited about it as well.
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After filling the streets with Christmas spirit and sprinting to the finish line, how
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do the students feel?
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Tired.
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Very tired.
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We walked.
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Did a bit of both really.
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We walked mostly.
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But what does it really mean to the students to support the chosen charity?
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It's important because there's people suffering out there that this money will help to go
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towards because it will help them and it's easier for us just to go out running where
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it's not easy for them to get better with a click of the fingers so the money helps
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them get better.
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Doing something that you like whilst doing something to help others as well so that's
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really nice.
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It's good. Cancer affects so many people. If you can raise as much money as possible
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just to help that little bit more it's really good.
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It's very good and I think it's like because we're raising money for charity so it's very
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heartwarming.
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Well it's just, it helps. It's really important that we should be supporting into these things
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and I think we should do a bunch more.
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What will you be doing to share Christmas cheer this season?
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Cheering!
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Daisy Page for KMTV.
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