Awards

Neil Pratley

From Suffolk gained the Bronze award.

 

Champion profile:

Neil is 39 and married with two children aged 13 and 9 years old. He works as a Business Professional in Technology, and in an Outsourcing Professional Services Company. he lives with his family in Suffolk.

Neil completed the 3 Peaks Challenge earlier this year. The trek involves climbing the highest mountains of Scotland, England and Wales inside of 24 hours.

He decided to raise funds for the MS Society due to his father, who died when Neil was a child, having had MS. Neil wants to help find a cure so that other families do not feel the loss that he did.

Neil has 4 fundraising tips he finds are successful

• Use email to create mass awareness of your event
• Send reminders because people always forget!
• Promote your event through family and friends who will in turn promote it through their family and friends
• Keep records of all pledges, especially verbal commitments