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our chosen CRX charity - then please visit our Just Giving fundraising web-page by clicking the logo below.

EVERY penny donated will go directly to Mind. We will not be using any donations to fund the trip.

Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales. They work to create a better life for everyone with experience of mental illness by:

• advancing the views, needs and ambitions of people with mental health problems
• challenging discrimination and promoting inclusion
• influencing policy through campaigning and education
• inspiring the development of quality services which reflect expressed need and diversity
• achieving equal rights through campaigning and education.

In all their work they promote their values: informed, determined, diversity, integrity and partnership. Mental health problems can affect anyone, rich or poor, young or old, shattering the lives of those affected and the lives of the people close to them. One in four of us will experience a mental health problem at some point in our lives. Each year more than 250,000 people are admitted to psychiatric hospitals and over 4,000 people take their own lives.

Hi Folk

My name is Hannah (aka Spotty Banana) and I am one half of Team Rovers Return.

I also have Bi-Polar Disorder or, as it is more commonly known, Manic Depression.

Manic depressives are a creative bunch - sufferers include Winston Churchill, Spike Milligan, Isaac Newton, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Abraham Lincoln, Buzz Aldrin, Plato, Tim Burton.....

Manic Depression is a disease with no cure but it's main symptoms (violent mood swings being the most commonly known) can be managed with medication, regular sleep, a healthy diet and an avoidance of stress....

By taking part in the (very tiring and stressful) CRX banger rally I am putting my health at risk, but I am prepared to do so raise awarenessof these issues.

Please support our efforts in CRX by contributing to Mind so that they can fund research into new treatments and provide support for sufferers and their carers. I am very lucky. After years of suffering I was eventually correctly diagnosed. Now I have a support network of my family, friends, GP, Community Psychiatric Nurse and the local Psychiatric Team and the prescribed suitable medication. Because I have learnt to understand my illness I am usually able to cope with it. Now I want to break down the taboos that surround mental illness and help others understand.

Please help me help Mind help us....

Our Just Giving page is an online charity page where folk can donate money (and, if you are a UK tax payer, give the tax to MIND through Gift Aid) - Please help us raise as much money as possible.

Thanks very much

Hannah