.Critically-Rt .Challenge Archie by Forming A Life-saving Social Group
To save you wading through the website to find the whys and the wherefores of the Challenge, the summary of the reasons for my Challenge and how to challenge me are below.
This Page is split into sections with the hyperlinks below taking you directly to the information you need:
Why Archie is Asking You to Challenge Him to Play Golf And Make Music.
With continuing medical appointments with specialists ranging from Oncology, Neurology, Endocrinology, Epilepsy specialists and Neuropsychology, and after the many scans and tests required for evidence including an EEG, it was confirmed that, contrary to popular belief, I do have a brain, but also confirmed that there is a lot of unusual electrical activity around it and in particular around the areas of damage deep into the central part of the brain and right temporal lobe. The net result is that I can confirm that I remain clear of the brain tumour but remain under supervision as the expectation very much remains that my tumour will return. That I still battle with epilepsy and the medication for it. I still battle with SMART syndrome and a number of neurological dysfunctions. The net results of these conditions are as follows:
Whenever I try to turn my mind to something for any length of time, like a conversation, or listening to the radio, or writing an email on the computer for any longer than twenty minutes, the fog drifts in like the haar off the North Sea. I feel cast adrift at sea with my brain gently moving in the swell of the sea, the computer starts to bob on the ocean swell while the image on the screen starts to move independently of the computer or, if a conversation is the cause, the room will start to move while the talking head moves independently within it, making me feel horribly dizzy, and if I don’t stop trying to work or talk through it, my sight inevitably starts to close in, my speech starts to fail, I stop being able to swallow, my motor function down my left side starts to fail and my hearing starts to fade. A SMART attack is triggered, making me look and sound much like a stroke victim. Allie has carried me sometimes literally through too many of these SMART attacks which leave me like a man who has had far too much to drink, unable to speak, to walk, and sometimes even to stand. Allie has had to undress me and remove my contact lenses and tuck me into bed after force feeding large amounts of diluted Aspirin into me to thin the blood further and try to bring me down from the SMART attack more times than I would like. The SMART attacks come in rashes of two or three after sometimes many weeks without one, but always knock me off my feet for a day or so afterwards.
I also have frequent bouts of chronic fatigue brought on by my condition, my medication and just over doing it. It can see me plummeting into sleep so very quickly and with little warning from sitting to sleeping in a blink of an eye. During such bouts I lose control of my motor function and struggle to coordinate my limbs leading to clumsy staccato movements across a floor.
Ice-pick headaches drive hard into my brain randomly and without warning, often forcing me to my knees or to a chair, or to slump over a table or my desk so very quickly.
Random and hard-hitting bouts of twitching that can shake the whole core of my body viciously, contort the body or see me slamming my limbs into walls or furniture without warning. They have seen me throw a programme across a theatre, food across the kitchen, a medical tool tray across the dentist’s clinic or other items across a room. They come hard and with little or no notice.
Bouts of intense pain in my chest, limbs or face, a form of neuralgia triggered merely by the brain. No test has found any other reason for such pain.
I am constantly distracted by epileptic auras that bubble through me daily, overwhelming all my senses and leaving me confused and breathless, before shortly recovering. My cheeks are almost constantly fuzzing and my left ear, the only one that can hear properly has a popping like the changing of air pressure popping that pops in and out of my ear randomly through the day. So I live each day with these mild distractions on top of the harder hitting dysfunctions and attacks.
I can find myself in random places doing random things during the day and wake having no idea why my hand is in the peanut butter tub or my head in the fridge for example. No idea what I am doing, where or why. I can find myself having to strip off in the midst of yet another hot flush.
My brain will randomly trip and send me tumbling sideways into whatever I manage to catch or fall into.
I get horribly confused with the simple things like up and down, left and right, front and back, speed and distance and, dangerously, red means go and green means stop. Thank goodness we now live in North Berwick with slow moving traffic because three times I have stepped out into moving traffic and all three times with my high vis tabard and Cocoa, my assistance dog in her tabard, the traffic stopped and waved me through. I will probably never get my driving licence back for good reason and remain very much unemployable unless, as my neuropsychologist concluded after a battery of tests, whoever employed me did so along with a PA and chaise longue with an expectation that I would use it three times a day.
And yes, after twelve months of chemo ingested through my stomach, I remain horribly windy ☹
With all these symptoms combined I can, at times, feel like a nonagenarian with a mild case of Alzheimer’s going through the menopause.
BUT – through Golf and Music I AM getting stronger. In fact I find both Golf and Music strangely cathartic and can now sustain myself happily for eighteen holes around a golf course. I am learning to play some lovely organ tunes and I have finally learned to bring balance into my life to ensure that I can sustain myself for a day’s work.
I live life in twenty-minute segments. By using a timer set to twenty minutes I work for twenty minutes before taking a five-minute break in the garden breathing deeply, then another twenty minutes work before a short brisk, deep-breathing walk of between half a mile to two miles with Cocoa, however long I need to clear the fog. Then another twenty minutes work then a twenty-minute siesta before repeating the work, break, work, walk, work, break, work, siesta sequence. By following this sequence I have managed to bring a significant amount of balance into each day in order to reduce the severity of my symptoms and remain productive, despite the frustration at getting so little achieved in each and every day, certainly, not nearly as much as I used to be able to do prior to diagnosis ten years ago. I do have good days and in fact have wonderful days in which I manage to achieve small victories, get out on the golf course and practice the organ and live a day without a fog or twobble.
I find golf and learning to play the pipe organ remarkably restorative and while both are extremely tiring, I am yet to suffer any form of a wobble on a golf course or at the organ, other than the mild epileptic auras, face fuzziness and popping ears that plague me daily.
Having said that I will never be the man that I once was – perhaps, just perhaps, with your help, I will be able to become a better man than I ever was. I will be able to save lives, many lives and become truly useful again.
The Life-saving Social Group Concept
I have been fundraising solely for the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) since the 02nd March 2018. At the time of writing, in those five years, the Challenge has managed to raise just shy of £23,000 for the DEC. and while I waited for my website volunteer to perform an upgrade to the website , I decided to find out how much it cost to save a life, and therefore, how many lives I had potentially saved so far. For the reason of differing circumstances in each and every occasion, the DEC was unable to provide a figure. So I Googled it and, after extensive research, discovered that the mean figure from across the humanitarian charities in the UK, Europe and the USA was £21,000 to save a life, once the office running, wage, pension, insurance and logistical costs et al had all been taken into account.
Clearly I was disappointed to discover that after four years of hard work, I had only saved one life. But then it dawned on me that, having raised £23,100 at the time of discovery, I had covered all the initial costs, so therefore, surely every penny raised over that £21,000 had the potential to help save more lives, but I still had the critical question outstanding… How much more will it cost to save a life now that I have covered all the logistical and manpower costs? So, after another extensive search, this time through the DEC’s website, I discovered that to provide enough emergency shelter, warm bedding and clothing, clean water, rations, hygiene packs and medical packs to sustain a family for a month was, at the time of writing, £319.92.
Then I had the problem of how large a family was. In Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Western Europe, the family sizes are all different, but in order to make sense of these figures I decided to go for the lower mean figure of 4 people in a family. This meant that it would cost £79.98 to potentially save a life and, to make the maths easier for me, I rounded it up to £80. Suddenly I had a figure that appeared to be much more achievable in order to potentially save a life. A figure which meant that I had, by that point, potentially saved 288 lives through the DEC. Those I spoke to when presented with these figures also felt £80 a much more understandable and achievable figure. A target figure that people felt that they could get their head around and that felt within reaching distance with a little effort. A figure that would encourage them to try to fundraise as they felt that they could achieve £80 in order to potentially save a life through the DEC.
So, with a nation that appears to be increasingly isolated at the individual level across all the generational groups, I came up with an idea. Through my efforts to play Golf and make Music, as a brain-damaged veteran battling with epilepsy, SMART syndrome and a number of neurological dysfunctions each and every day, striving to play Golf at the highest level I possibly can, and striving to make Music with the best in the business, I hope to inspire the nation to challenge me to keep battling back to becoming useful again, by forming life-saving social groups, who could get together for a monthly special event, in order to raise £80 a month to save a life a month through the Challenge.
These social events could be just that: free lunches, teas, or dinners in which people pay a contribution whether through a raffle or an entrance fee or guided voluntary donations towards collectively raising £80 to save a life.
Golf Clubs could hold a monthly life-saving golf match amongst the golf club members, or a life-saving fun match against the partners and children of the golfing members with a buffet lunch and toasts to the winner of the match and the life saved. Or a life-saving day in which non-members can pay half of the normal green fee to play a round with all proceeds going to save a life through the Challenge. Or the Golf Pro could give half-price lessons for a day with all proceeds going towards saving a life. Ideas such as these could perhaps bring golf to a wider audience. The options for golf clubs are endless and relatively easy to deliver and each event will save at least one life, possibly more.
Musical and theatrical venues could put on life-saving shows in which ticket prices are half price with all proceeds going towards saving a life, possibly more, while bringing live theatre and music to a wider audience. Where margins are too tight for such an event perhaps any proceeds from the post-show collection could go towards saving a life.
Schools could have a dress-down life-saving Friday once a month in which pupils pay a minimal amount for the privilege of coming in to school in their own clothes rather than uniform, or for an early finish on the Friday after a school assembly in which senior pupils present to the school on a different crisis in a different country of the world each month. There will be many ways a school can save a life, possibly many lives, each and every month while enriching the education and the lives of the pupils.
Large businesses could perhaps have a monthly life-saving day in which all profits from that day’s business go to save as many lives as the profits enable. Or they could hold a families day, bringing together the families and employees of the business for a day’s fun and frolics before a meal together in which they can toast the lives they have saved from their small contribution towards the saving of a life on arrival. The senior management could also take such monthly opportunities to update employees and their families on the outlook for the future and answer any nagging issues that there might be.
Smaller businesses and high street shops could possibly have a life-saving discount day in which a discount is offered on all produce to increase footfall, with all profits from that day going to save a life or more. Again there will be so very many imaginative ways to raise the £80 needed to save a life.
Sports clubs could run monthly life-saving events. Events such as:
Juniors vs Seniors or a blended team against the parents or the veterans and coaches of the club, followed by a meal together to toast the victors and the life or lives saved through the donations given on arrival.
Or the club could run an open day where all are welcome to come and try the sport in return for a small contribution towards the saving of a life.
Community centres and places of worship have so many ways to raise money to save a life in the wonderful ways that they do, and to do so monthly would surely be a wonderful accolade for the community centre and church. They could even keep a ‘lives saved’ tally on the wall of the church or community centre to see the growing fruits of their labour.
Retirement and care homes could all hold life-saving events in which their residents pay a nominal amount in order to join in with the life-saving event whether an excursion or special meal or party tailored specifically to their audience. Their residents would surely delight in knowing that collectively they have saved a life that month.
Troops of Scouts and Guides could perform charitable works or odd jobs for large housing estates or stately homes or conservation projects or retirement homes in return for recompense to the value of £80 thus saving a life with a days work.
There could even be life-saving street parties and housing estate parties. £80 is not a lot to raise and the number of ways that £80 can be raised easily and every single month by groups of people are numerous. With the Challenge being run entirely for free through the generosity of volunteers, I guarantee that every single penny of every £80 raised will go to the Disasters Emergency Committee to save a life.
Until we achieve world peace and reverse climate change the DEC will need masses of money each and every month with which to save lives around the world.
That means that I would ask the catatlyst/organiser in that particular group or organisation to arrange such an event once a month for each and every month that I can keep playing golf and the pipe organ at the highest level I possibly can.
In return for that named group’s commitment to saving a life every single month, I commit to writing a thank you letter to the catalyst of that group to confirm receipt of the monthly donations and commit to come to take part in their match, event or activity and to talk to that group at some point in their life-saving campaign, if they wanted me to, when I possibly can around my golfing, musical, medical and familial commitments. Equally every named life-saving group would secure an entry onto the life-saving roll of honour on the Challenge website.
To encourage and reward the continued effort that will have to be made by each catalyst/organiser, I will be seeking ways in which to say thank you beyond my initial thank you letter for those who save twelve lives, and I will be seeking further ideas for continued reward for those who save twenty-four lives, thirty-six lives and so on through monies raised for the Challenge – saving lives through their dogged determination and hard work.
How Many Lives Does Archie Hope To Save With His Challenge?
With the right media support, how many life-saving social groups could I conceivably inspire to formation was a question in the forefront of my mind. I turned once again to Dr Google and was delighted with the following figures:
As my Challenge is hinged around Golf and Music, I would start first at golf clubs:
If every one of the 1,888 golf clubs in the UK created a life-saving social group, they could collectively raise £151,040 potentially saving 1,888 lives a month
Then to the performing arts:
If every one of the 7,000 performing arts venues in the UK created a life-saving social group, they could collectively raise £560,000 potentially saving 7,000 lives a month.
Then, as my Challenge will continue for as long as I can keep my brain tumour at bay and keep playing golf and making music, I considered the NHS:
If every one of the 1,229 hospitals in the UK created a life-saving social group, they could collectively raise £98,320 potentially saving an additional 1,229 a month on top of the thousands they save each and every day.
Then, as I have a wonderful back story that could inspire any child to strive harder, be kinder, to achieve…. I considered the schools:
If every one of the 32,163 schools in the UK created a life-saving social group, they could collectively raise £2,573,040 potentially saving 32,163 lives a month.
Then, as my brain tumour was triggered by two blunt force traumas to the right temporal lobe, both of which concussed me while playing sport in the Army, I considered the sports clubs:
If every one of the 9,584 sports clubs in the UK created a life-saving social group, they could collectively raise £766,720 potentially saving 9,584 lives a month.
If those who need a social group to combat isolation and loneliness the most, the 17,100 retirement and care homes in the UK created a life-saving social group each, they could collectively raise £1,368,000 potentially saving 17,100 lives a month.
Then, as my son had just started studying business at Dundee University, I considered business.
If every one of the 43,600 medium to large businesses in the UK created a life-saving social group, to have an early finish Friday once a month after a social gathering and central briefing or training morning, or a monthly fun families day – the options are endless – they could collectively raise £3,488,000 potentially saving 43,600 lives a month.
Therefore, if I could, through my own hard works secure an invitation to play on the professional golf circuit, escorted by my assistance dog, Cocoa, who frankly is already turning out to be the star of the show, in the full glare of the global sporting media, and through my own hard works secure an invitation to play or sing with the best in the musical industry to add their delicious flavours to my Challenge in the way that only they can. If the nations media could see this as the exciting life-saving good news story that it is and get behind it. If I get this right and can, with the help of the DEC, inspire through my website, social media, golf and music, the nation to form life-saving social groups…
The Challenge could raise at least £9,005,120 every single month so potentially saving at least 112,564 lives every month through the most excellent work of the Disasters Emergency Committee for as long as I can keep my brain tumour at bay and keep playing golf and the pipe organ at the highest level I possibly can.
Then of course you have all the Ships of the Royal Navy, Companies of the Infantry, Squadrons of the Cavalry and Royal Logistics Corps, Batteries of the Royal Artillery, Squadrons of the Royal Air Force, branches of the Royal British Legion, sub-units of the Salvation Army and Freemasons as well as all the Scout troops and Guide troops and Rotary groups and cycling groups and walking groups and social groups and churches and places of worship and villages, towns and cities of the world. The list of possible life-saving social group locations and fundraising methods is endless and could be enormously fun and rewarding for all concerned.
And why stop at the UK boundary? My Challenge has so far received a small number of donations from Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Holland and Belgium. If I manage to get onto the professional golfing circuit, and see the musical greats compose brilliant music in support of the Challenge, I see no reason why I could not be encouraging the formation of life-saving social groups around the world. After all my Challenge appears to be a perfect vehicle for the DP World Tour’s Golf For Good campaign. https://www.europeantour.com/golf-for-good/
I am hoping to get local newspapers and regional news programmes to take a reporter and cameraman to each of the life-saving social group events as they develop in their many guises around the counties, spreading the concept, ink spot by ink spot, around the UK, then into Europe and beyond. Clearly this will involve a lot of hard work, a lot of travelling and tons and tons of good will from thousands of people to make this happen but, if I can get things moving and secure column inches in the weekend supplements of national newspapers and magazines and magazine programmes on radio and television, I see no reason why the Challenge cannot be potentially saving many thousands of lives each and every month through the DEC.
So please form a life-saving social group. Keep it simple and fun and deeply enriching. Help me to become useful once more.
Do I Have To Have A Life-saving Event Every Month?
No, absolutely not, this is merely an aspiration of mine in order to save as many lives as possible in the time that I have. You could have a life-saving event:
Monthly saving twelve lives a year
Every Two Months saving six lives a year
Every Three Months saving four lives a year
Every Four Months saving three lives a year
Every Six Months saving two lives a year
Or just Annually. It is entirely up to you. Even if you only hold an event annually, you are still saving a life each and every year for which I would be extremely grateful.
Can I Form A Life-saving Social Group With Just a Group Of Friends Rather Than in a Club or Large Group of People?
Yes of course you can. Please do. A suggested method of doing so is as follows: You could arrange to meet up with as many family and friends as you can manage for coffee. Provide the standing order forms (found here) and while you’re having coffee you can help each other fill them out together. After coffee go to your own banks and hand them in to the teller then meet back together for lunch to celebrate the process of starting to save a life. Using the formula below : you can see how many lives you could save by the number of friends you convince to join you:
| Friends in your group | Monthly Amount | Months To Save A Life | Monthly Amount | Months To Save A Life |
| 1 | £2 | 20 months | £5 | 8 months |
| 2 | £2 | 13 months 9 days | £5 | 5 months 9 days |
| 3 | £2 | 10 months | £5 | 4 months |
| 4 | £2 | 8 months | £5 | 3 months 6 days |
| 5 | £2 | 6 months 18 days | £5 | 2 months 18 days |
| 6 | £2 | 5 months21 days | £5 | 2 months 12 days |
| 7 | £2 | 5 months | £5 | 2 months |
And so the number of life-saving options expands in accordance with your means, and numbers of family and friends and acquaintances you have, and your drive to save lives. Just three friends joining with you to make a donation of £2 per month each would save a life in eight months and if they could donate just £5 a month you could meet together for lunch or something three times a year to celebrate saving a life three times a year. Clearly the more people you can encourage to challenge me, through their sponsorship, to keep battling back to beat my beast of a brain tumour through Golf and Music, to become useful again, the more frequently you can meet for a social event to celebrate the life you have saved and in so doing, enrich your own life too. Clearly, when you meet to celebrate saving a life, Cocoa and I would be delighted to come and join you for the event, if we possibly can, be it lunch or just coffee and cake.
Do I Have to Form a Life-saving Social Group at all? Can’t I just sponsor you?
Yes, you can just sponsor me. You do not have to form a life-saving social group at all. Clearly this is my preferred method for you to raise money to save lives through the Challenge, but I would be equally delighted to receive your sponsorship no matter how small the amount. I guarantee that every single penny raised will go to save lives through the Disasters Emergency Committee.
It is, of course, entirely up to you how much you decide to sponsor me for and all I ask is a minimum of £1 per month. As I am asking you to complete a standing order (found here) to sponsor me, I will not receive any of your details as these are given to the bank in confidence, by your bank, and not to me. Therefore I cannot email, call or contact you in any way to ask you to increase your sponsorship. This is my one shot to ask you to challenge me, through your sponsorship, to keep battling back to become useful again, and all I ask in these difficult financial times is £1 per month. If you can afford to sponsor me for more, thus saving lives more quickly, then please do, but please do not feel under any pressure to do so. As a guide I give the possible sponsorship amounts, and the requisite months and years to save a life, below:
| Monthly donation amount | Months to save a life | Years to save a life |
| £1 | 80 months to save a life | 6 years 7 months to save a life |
| £2 | 40 months to save a life | 3 years 3 months to save a life |
| £5 | 16 months to save a life | 1 year 4 months to save a life |
| £10 | 8 months to save a life | 1.5 lives saved per year |
| £20 | 4 months to save a life | 3 lives saved per year |
| £30 | 2 months 18 days to save a life | 4.6 lives saved each year |
| £40 | 2 months to save a life | 6 lives saved each year |
| £50 | 1 month 18 days to save a life | 7.5 lives saved a year |
| £60 | 1 month 9 days to save a life | 9.2 lives saved a year |
| £70 | 1 month 3 days to save a life | 10.9 lives saved a year |
| £80 | 1 month to save a life | 12 lives saved each year |
In Summary
The number of life-saving options are many and the life-saving social group events should be simple to organise, fun to run, and be enriching experiences for all whether introvert or extrovert. You can challenge me to keep battling back to beat my beast of a brain tumour and be inspired, I hope, through my efforts at Golf and Music, to save lives, in accordance with your financial means and numbers of family and friends and acquaintances and club memberships, and the drive to save lives, that you have. The more life-saving social groups you can run, or the more people you can encourage to challenge me to keep battling back, through their sponsorship, the more frequently you can meet for a social to celebrate the life you have saved and in so doing, enrich your own life too. Critically, a life-saving social event should be beneficial to the organiser and the attendee.
Let not age, or gender, or sexual orientation, or ethnicity, or football team, or faith, or nationality be a barrier. Rich or poor, similar or different, new or old friends and acquaintances, with people you have never met before … reach past old disagreements and stretch out our hands across our community and the world, unite to challenge Archie purely to save lives, millions of lives, around the world through the Disasters Emergency Committee. If you are unsure of starting such an enriching experience, I implore you to watch my video of a Father’s advice (found here) in the hope that it will encourage you to reach out far and wide, to break new ground and enrich your life further in the process of saving lives.
Thank you, I look forward to receiving the fruits of your labours to save lives and in the meantime……
Keep safe,
Keep being brilliant
Keep eating the tenderstem
And
Keeeeeeeeeeeeep smiling
Yours aye with love and tons of gratitude
Archie and Cocoa
How To Challenge Archie to Keep Battling Back To Become Useful Again With Your Life Saving Sponsorship
- Depositing Life Saving Monies Raised To The Challenge
Thank you so very much for all the time and effort you have put in to challenging me, to keep battling back through Golf and Music to become useful again, by saving lives with the monies you have raised. The account details you require for the deposit of your life saving monies are as follows:
Payee: Beat the Beast Challenge
Sort Code: 83-24-18
Account Number: 15978839
Address:
Royal Bank of Scotland
Edinburgh Leith Branch
2 Bernard Street
Leith
Edinburgh
EH6 6PU
From Outside The UK
To deposit life saving monies raised from an account outside of the UK the following details will be needed by your bank:
Payee: Beat The Beast Challenge
Sort Code: 83-24-18
Account Number: 15978839
BIC/Swift Code: RBOSGB2L
IBAN: GB38RBOS83241815978839.
Please Don’t Forget To:
Email me on archie@beatthebeastchallenge.co.uk to inform me of your lifesaving deposit. When you do so please also remember to give me the following details:
- let me know your name.
- Are you an individual life saving donor?
- If so, would you mind if I added you first name and town, County and Country of residence to the individual roll of honour on this website?
- I will never reveal the amounts raised on the roll of honour. Even just one life saved makes you truly valuable and specia.
- Are you the Catalyst for a lifesaving social group?
- If so what is the name of your group, what is the key focus of your group normally and what town, county and country are you based in?
- I will then add your group to the lifesaving social group roll of honour on this website.
- I will never reveal the amounts raised on the roll of honour, the media coverage that I or yourself manages to get to your events can do that if you wish them to, but I want the roll of honour to be inclusive to all who give their time and treasure to save as many lives as they can whether one or a hundred or a thousand. Every lifesaving social group will have different freedoms and constraints, so it is not a competition but every life saved makes every lifesaving social group truly worthy of their place on the roll of honour.
I will then reply confirming receipt of your donation and track your donations in order to ensure that you or your lifesaving social group receive recognition when you each the milestones of twelve lives saved, twenty-four lives saved, thirty-six lives saved, forty-eight lives saved and so on.
- Setting Up A Standing Order For Individual Sponsors
Thank you so very much for deciding to challenging me, through your sponsorship, to keep battling back through Golf and Music to become useful again by saving lives with the monies you donate.
Please download and print out the simple standing order form found here. Complete the unshaded boxes of the form and hand it in to your local branch of your bank, or send it to your bank at the address found in your cheque book. You can also fill out a blank standing order form found in your local branch of your bank and hand it in to the teller using the following details:
Payee: Beat the Beast Challenge.
Sort Code: 83-24-18
Account Number: 15978839
At:
Royal Bank of Scotland
Edinburgh Leith Branch
2 Bernard Street
Leith
Edinburgh
EH6 6PU
Payee: Beat the Beast Challenge
Sort Code: 83-24-18
Account Number: 15978839
Address:
Royal Bank of Scotland
Edinburgh Leith Branch
2 Bernard Street
Leith
Edinburgh
EH6 6PU
From Outside The UK
To deposit life saving monies raised from an account outside of the UK the following details will be needed by your bank:
Payee: Beat The Beast Challenge
Sort Code: 83-24-18
Account Number: 15978839
BIC/Swift Code: RBOSGB2L
IBAN: GB38RBOS83241815978839.
Please Don’t Forget To:
Email me on archie@beatthebeastchallenge.co.uk to inform me of your lifesaving deposit. When you do so please also remember to give me the following details:
- let me know your name.
- Are you an individual life saving donor?
- If so, would you mind if I added you first name and town, County and Country of residence to the individual roll of honour on this website?
- I will never reveal the amounts raised on the roll of honour. Even just one life saved makes you truly valuable and specia.
- Are you the Catalyst for a lifesaving social group?
- If so what is the name of your group, what is the key focus of your group normally and what town, county and country are you based in?
- I will then add your group to the lifesaving social group roll of honour on this website.
- I will never reveal the amounts raised on the roll of honour, the media coverage that I or yourself manages to get to your events can do that if you wish them to, but I want the roll of honour to be inclusive to all who give their time and treasure to save as many lives as they can whether one or a hundred or a thousand. Every lifesaving social group will have different freedoms and constraints, so it is not a competition but every life saved makes every lifesaving social group truly worthy of their place on the roll of honour.
I will then reply confirming receipt of your donation and track your donations in order to ensure that you or your lifesaving social group receive recognition when you each the milestones of twelve lives saved, twenty-four lives saved, thirty-six lives saved, forty-eight lives saved and so on.
Assistance
If you wish to contact the Royal Bank of Scotland, you can do so on 0800 148 83
Accountability
All funds raised will be deposited in and held by The Royal Bank of Scotland.
The challenge in numbers boxes on the home page of this website will keep a daily tally of the monies raised. All monies are sent, and accounted for, monthly to save lives through the Disasters Emergency Committee.
All financial reporting will be managed by Webb and Wallace Accountants and published annually on the challenge website.
Above all I promise that every single penny you donate goes to save lives through the DEC. Not a single penny is lost to costs. Thanks to the generosity of volunteers and businesses helping me on this challenge, there are no costs.