WE'RE UP AND RUNNING AGAIN!

Dear Friends

As you can imagine the last seven weeks have been very tough both mentally and emotionally and doing Ali’s blog proved to be just too much. As it was such a marvellous vehicle for everyone and new friendships were made and many old ones renewed, we felt we must keep it going as a valuable way of keeping in touch with you all. So here we are!

We have been working hard behind the scenes, though, and as you can see the money’s rolling in: www.justgiving.com/alirainback which is such a wonderful tribute to Ali. Thank you for being so generous in your giving and let’s exceed our target and ‘keep on keeping on’ for such a worthy cause.

We intend to create a Charity to enable us to get some serious corporate sponsorship and help with publicity, which we will let you know about as soon as it's set up. We want to use ‘Ali was a STAR’ as our theme and will need a logo incorporating a star and which epitomises Ali and all he meant, so any ideas would be most welcome. Are there any graphic designers out there who’d be willing to help design tee-shirts, posters etc?

We have many events in the pipeline and will publish details in due course but in the meantime please note:

Ski for a STAR: Courchevel 10th April 2009

Kimpton to Courchevel Cycle Challenge: 6-13th June 2009

Watch this space for further information and send any suggestions to: dianarainback@aol.com but please share your ideas with us on the blog and let us know about anything you’re planning so we can support you.

With Love

Team Rainback

ps We would still love any photos and memories of Ali that you may have and thank those of you who so kindly sent them-they mean a great deal to us.