NUBA Fundraising Initiative

Taken from the NUBA website and written by Alan Suttie:

When NUBA was launched our aspiration was to achieve focus and funding for angling throughout Britain. Due solely to my ill health our funding programme has yet to materialise. The following will I hope address this situation head on.
In the spring of 2009 I will be walking from Lands End to John o’ Groats and back and then across Ireland to raise funds for 3 important angling charities. These are
Reels on Wheels (Nick Rowe’s angling initiative for the disabled)
• JetSet Trout in the Classroom UK Limited (the multi award winning educational programme, taking fish and nature into schools)
• AFYD Angling for Youth Development (the rapidly expanding Tayside police initiative aimed at teaching disadvantaged children the joys of angling).
All three of these will be registered charities by the spring of 2009.
I will be accompanied by and sometimes pushing when necessary Nick Rowe the whole 1700 miles of the journey (what a bloody thought) both of us will use this year to prepare and publicise this ludicrous venture as widely as at all possible. This will ensure that we cannot duck our undertaking.
Our aim will be to raise approximately £250,000 over the 4 to 5 months needed for this journey. We aim to cover on average 15 miles a day. This initiative is still in it’s infancy but already it seems doubtful that Nick and I will be alone on any particular day such has been the positive initial response.
Nick and I will be getting together in February of this year to formulate a sensible strategy and in due course we will be posting sponsorship forms on our respective web sites for individual and company donations. Any contribution however small will be most welcome. None of the money raised will go to NUBA, only the charities will benefit.
Anyone wishing to join us along any part of the route will be most welcome and will probably break the ice between Nick and I. We will work to getting television, radio and press coverage at every level along the way. I hope the angling fraternity will get behind us to raise much needed funding for these worthy initiatives. Both Nick and I have realised that to sit back and expect either Government or anyone else to bankroll us is pure fantasy. We have decided to take the bull by the horns and hope this effort will be perceived by the public and business alike as one very much worth supporting. We are both actually quite scared. See website press etc for developing information. Any input and ideas are welcome.