mizen-malin.org
About Us
mizen-malin.org was set up by two people, one who could cycle well, the other could not. The one that could cycle thought of going from Mizen Head to Malin Head. The one that could not cycle said that he would follow in a car to help etc. There are now a few other people to cycle, to help on the journey and to collect money before and during the event.
Doing the cycle ride was the initial aim, but why do it for nothing when money could be collected for charity. The money collected will be used for Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Irish Cancer Society after a bit of thought on our part.
Our aims are to hopefully do the following
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We are a non-profit organisation |
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We hope to make this an annual event, promote a cycle ride for charity from Mizen to Malin or vice versa. |
| Assist / promote events not organised by us from Mizen to Malin and vice versa and in the local areas on the Web Site. |
| Maximize all the money going to charity, all work to date has been on a voluntary basis, and we want to keep it that way. We hope you find Marie Curie Cancer Care and Irish Cancer Society worthy of your donations. |
| We will be as open as possible regarding the money collected if you cycle and collect for us, each charity gives receipts and acknowledgements for the donated money. |
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Try and have a bit of fun on the way. |
| Entry to cycle and raise money is open to anyone who is capable. |
| Donations may be made directly into the following bank accounts to be forwarded to the respective charities. |
Bank account for donations to Marie Curie Cancer Care -
Mizen-Malin (STG£) Ulster Bank, 22 Bridge Street, Banbridge, Co Down, N Ireland Sort 99-03-30 Account No 50706005
Marie Curie Cancer Care can claim back 28% of the value of any donation from the UK government sent to us provided
1) The cheque is made payable to Marie Curie Cancer Care, the person is a UK tax payer, and complete name and address is provided.
2) Pay money into the Ulster Bank account, the person is a UK tax payer, and complete name and address is forwarded to us, and also stating amount and date of payment.
Bank account for donations to Irish Cancer Society -
Mizen Malin Organisation (Euros) Permanent tsb, 60 Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk, Co Louth, Ireland Sort 99-06-14 Account No 71999659
Every year we hope to do a lot more, collect greater amounts of money, and have more people to both participate and assist along the way. So if you can cycle at an average of around 14mph for a hundred miles, for 4 days in a row and want to take part please let us know. If you wish to assist and help out in any form please contact us, use the links above or below.
A short bit about cancer - You may have experience of dealing with cancer or you may know someone with cancer but there are over 200 types of cancer, the types of cancer vary but what they all have in common is where cell growth gets out of control and does not regenerate in the normal manner. The cell growth of cancers we normally here of, tends to be rapid and may spread to other parts of the body. Its the tumours/"bad cell growth" which leads to all the subsequent problems. In UK and Ireland roughly 1 in 3 will get cancer and 1 in 4 die from it. Not trying to be too morbid, but take a room of 12 people, on average 4 will get cancer and 3 will die from it. Cancer effects all age groups and countries around the world, in Northern Ireland alone (population 1.6 million) on average over 20 people a day are informed that they have cancer.
The cycle we do (planned to 2008, so far) is to raise awareness of the cancer charities and what they do, we would appeal to you to donate money anytime you can to them, helping the charities to find cures for cancer and care for those they cannot cure.
