McCanns In School Charity Run

**bb1** Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:18 pm

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Parents of missing Maddie join school's charity runs
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By Emily Winsor

TWO charity runs in Keyworth were attended by around 1,000 people at the weekend in a bid to raise funds for an impoverished Kenyan community.

The Crossdale Drive Primary School 10km Trial and 2km Fun Run was held in and around the village on Sunday with around 500 children and adults taking part in each race.

This was the 14th event of its kind. For the last few years it has raised money for the Friends of Kadzinuni, a Keyworth-based charity which supports a Kenyan community and helps improve education and healthcare there.

The races set off from the primary school and followed an off-road course, finishing at Plumtree Cricket Club.

This year it attracted people from all over the Midlands, including keen runners Kate and Gerry McCann, parents of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared on a family holiday in Portugal in 2007.

The couple had travelled from their home in Rothley, Leicestershire, to take part in the race.

Crossdale head teacher Peter Cresswell said: "It is always a really nice community-orientated event and we always get a good turnout.

"People come from all over to take part and one man, who is 90-years-old now, always takes part.

"The run goes across farmers' land, who kindly let us have access, and it's a nice route.

"I've run the race myself before but didn't do it this year. We had lovely weather on Sunday and there was a really nice atmosphere as usual."

Money raised from the races this year has tipped the £500 mark and will be used to buy solar-powered reading lamps for the Kadzinuni community.

Nic Seller of the Friends of Kadzinuni said: "A few weeks ago, I did an assembly at the school about the lamps and how they will benefit youngsters in the Kenyan community. It rang a lot of bells with the children because the school has recently had solar panels installed on its roof.

"The school played a key role in the beginning, when we first set up the charity, as it donated over 800 reading books to the cause which were shipped out to Kenya.

"That was in 1999 and the school has helped to support the charity ever since."

To find out more about the Friends of Kadzinuni, go to www.kadzinuni.org.uk.

**lily** Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:31 pm

That is so good to read about people doing altruistic deeds especially as those people are Kate and Gerry.

Way to go.

**bb1** Wed Sep 25, 2013 12:57 pm

Ed Milliband is the target of their wrath this morning, because in the course of a speech, he said of Cameron:

When it was Murdoch versus the McCanns, he took the side of Murdoch.

Why the McCann-haters are all shrieking like banshees, I don't know - it's true.

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