Catlin End-to-End Opens Online Registration

The Catlin End-to-End Event has launched online registration and online pledging through its website. It has also begun distributing brightly coloured brochures, which include maps for the island-wide course and pledge sheets for participants and supporters.

In-person registration for this year’s event will take place April 28 to May 2 from 9 am to 5 pm at Washington Mall 3, on 18 Church Street. Participants must also visit this location before the event to collect their T-shirts and goodie bags.

“We are urging everyone in the community to register for our 27th annual event — or to pledge their support for it,” says Anne Mello, Chair of the End-to-End Charitable Trust, which organizes the event.

“Our outstanding organizing team is ready to deliver the best event day ever with lots of new features for 2014. This year we welcome Paddleboarding as a new activity, and we are offering an earlier 7am start for the End to End walkers to help them get going earlier and beat the heat and a new 3 mile/5k Fun cycle from Somerset.

Mrs. Mello added that the Catlin End-to-End is much more than just a fitness challenge and fun day out for the more than 2,700 participants who take part. The pledges they collect, and the online pledges made by generous individuals, are crucial to the charities supported by the event.

“We continue to be aware of the many challenges our local community faces,” says Mrs. Mello. “The charities this event supports are on the front lines of helping those in our community who need it most.”

All pledge monies raised – about $250,000 in most years – go directly to a variety of charities, which change from year to year.

Funds raised by this year’s Catlin End-to-End will support to 10 local charities, with an emphasis on youth, families and seniors.

The Catlin End-to-End is sponsored by Catlin Bermuda, CellOne and the Royal Gazette, and a number of other generous corporate sponsors.

End-to-End 2014 Charities Supported

Adult Education School
Supporting scholarships for young adults between the ages of 16 and 25 who are learning outside the mainstream school system, who demonstrate financial need and who otherwise would not be able to access its literacy programmes and its GED programme.

Bermuda School of Music
Supporting the Every Kid Can! programme at Victor Scott Primary School: a music education initiative to teach every student to play the violin. The programme supports students’ self-esteem and confidence, and enriches reading and comprehension skills.

Centre Against Abuse
Supporting the Centre’s Safe House, the only facility on the island, which offers shelter, safety and counselling for women and children who are the victims of domestic abuse.

The Family Centre
Supporting the Youth Development Zone, a pilot partnership with the Bermuda Police Service, Department of Youth and Sport, and the Economic Empowerment Zone office to strengthen services for young people in the North Hamilton area, a neighbourhood with a heavy gang presence and an at-risk youth population.

Friends of Hospice
Supporting weekly Day Hospice program at Agape House, which offers a variety of free services – including art therapy, pet therapy, massage therapy, meditation, and personalized meals – to hospice outpatients.

Meals on Wheels
Supporting home delivery of nourishing meal four days a week to approximately 200 persons who are house-bound, are unable to properly care for themselves, and lack adequate support from family or caregivers.

Multiple Sclerosis Society
Supporting a programme to raise awareness of and to assist with payment for new and existing medications for those suffering from MS in Bermuda.

Open Airways
Supporting the cost of a new “Azmobile,” a van used by Open Airways for travel to its Island-wide school Asthma Education Program, and to carry equipment necessary for optimal asthma care. [15,000]

St. John’s Ambulance
Supporting the general operations of this organization, which provides medical and emergency transport at community and sporting events, and backup transport and personnel service to the hospital.

Westmeath Residential and Nursing Care Home
Supporting the purchase of additional security cameras to enhance the well-being of 63 seniors living in the facility, many of whom suffer from dementia.

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