{"id":276,"date":"2012-07-27T11:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T10:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/campaigns-news-events\/?p=49"},"modified":"2014-04-07T15:03:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:03:10","slug":"marathon-runner-raises-over-3500-for-the-kent-law-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2012\/07\/27\/marathon-runner-raises-over-3500-for-the-kent-law-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon runner raises over \u00a33,500 for the Kent Law Campaign!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Pollard (K98 and Campaigns Manager at the University of Kent) ran the London Marathon on Sunday 22nd April and her fundraising page has now come to a close.\u00a0 In total, Anna raised over \u00a33,500 for the Kent Law Campaign &#8211; we are so proud of her for completing such a gruelling challenge and on behalf of the University we would like to thank her for her efforts.\u00a0 Of the experience Anna said:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Kent Law Campaign is a fantastic project and one which I am fully behind.\u00a0 Set up in 1972, the Kent Law Clinic was the first of its kind in a UK Law School and since then it has helped hundreds of people who need but cannot afford access to legal services. When I received my ballot place for the 2012 Virgin London Marathon I knew I wanted to run to raise money for the Law Campaign.\u00a0 I am not a runner and was met with sniggers when I told family and friends that I had secured a place \u2013 I proved them wrong and completed the race in 05:21:17 and raised over \u00a33,500 for the Campaign!\u00a0 It was an amazing experience and I would urge everybody to take up a personal challenge to raise valuable funds for this worthy cause.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kentlawcampaign\/7446521234\/in\/set-72157643584882293\/player\/\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If, like Anna, you would like to take part in a sponsored event for the Kent Law Campaign please contact <a href=\"mailto:alumni@kent.ac.uk\">alumni@kent.ac.uk<\/a> to discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Pollard (K98 and Campaigns Manager at the University of Kent) ran the London Marathon on Sunday 22nd April and her fundraising page has now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2012\/07\/27\/marathon-runner-raises-over-3500-for-the-kent-law-campaign\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38579,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117889,118121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}