 PSK Volunteers This part of the website is for the many volunteers of Peterborough Soup Kitchen. Its main aim is to communicate with YOU. Previously we have used the notice board at the soup kitchen, which meant that you got your news once per month.    Some of our volunteers serving food, all year round, on the van and preparing food in the kitchen We wish to ackowledge your tireless work as a volunteer, keep you informed of the fundraising needs of the charity, fundraising and PR events, training and how the soup kitchen is managed. We also wish to make being a PSK volunteer a more sociable experience, beyond your own team. The 'Friends of the soup kitchen' newsletter for volunteers and the public will be issued four times per year and available to download from the website.  The notice board will allow you to keep updated with anyPSK items. We encourage you to use the notice board as often as you want to. We need your thoughts, comments and ideas please. If you wish to add any items to the notice board that are relevant to PSK please contact Carlos Dominguez on fundraising@peterboroughsoupkitchen.org ____________________________________________________
 Notice BoardBroken arm didn’t stop ‘Local Hero’ Rod MacDonald raising £1200 for Peterborough Soup Kitchen in London Marathon Rod McDonald, a local long distance runner, ran this year’s London Marathon despite being injured during training - to help make life better for the city's homeless after a chance meeting with volunteers from the local soup kitchen. Rod McDonald, a local long distance runner, ran this year’s London Marathon despite being injured during training - to help make life better for the city's homeless after a chance meeting with volunteers from the local soup kitchen. Rod McDonald, 52 from Peterborough - who works locally for HMRC - set himself an ambitious target to raise £1,000 in 4 months for Peterborough Soup Kitchen. All the money raised would go towards replacing the charity’s hard-working van, used to serve food six days a week in the city centre. But during the first week of March he slipped on an icy pavement and suffered an accident whilst training on his bike, badly fracturing a radial bone in his left arm. Seven weeks before the start of the London Marathon he was laid up, unable to, drive, cycle or run with his arm in a sling.  Rod
with his cheque and Ian Davies,
the new PSK Chairman Rod said: “I was devastated by the injury, but not for myself - I was committed to raising the money for the Soup Kitchen. I felt very conscious of letting lots of people down. Nothing was going to stop me though. I was even prepared to walk around the 26 mile London Marathon course if I had to!”Rod said: “I was devastated by the injury, but not for myself - I was committed to raising the money for the Soup Kitchen. I felt very conscious of letting lots of people down. Nothing was going to stop me though. I was even prepared to walk around the 26 mile London Marathon course if I had to!” In the end Rod ‘s arm healed enough for him to re-start his training, but he was still wracked with pain. Nevertheless he did the race knowing that he’d lost weeks of valuable preparation time which could not be made up, and during the race itself his lack of training started to tell at about 14 miles, at the Isle of Dogs. He said: “My mantra became ‘get round the Dogs!’ which I repeated to myself for over 8 miles. By the time I got to the Thames Embankment (22 miles) I tried taking on board some energy gels, which I just grabbed, but found that I was too weak to open with my fingers or teeth. I stopped and a policeman opened them for me. “I then struggled on to mile 23 when my legs went into spasm and I knew I couldn’t run much further, but I did manage to stagger to the end, in a total blur of agony. Elatedly, I slowly crossed the line in 4 hours and 11 minutes.” Rod came across the Peterborough Soup Kitchen van and volunteers in Long Causeway on the 20th January, this year, when they were fundraising. He was so impressed when talking to them about the work they do for the homeless of Peterborough that he pledged to run the Marathon to raise money for the charity. Rod added: “Their genuine enthusiasm for what they do for homeless people was infectious. I decided there and then to help them raise money by getting sponsorship for the soup kitchen and running the London Marathon. “ Rod managed to raise an outstanding £1,200 He had also spent a freezing cold evening in February with volunteers at the soup kitchen serving food to the city’s homeless, adding: “I found the experience moving and humbling and now appreciate the work of the charity much more.” Ian Davies, the new Chairman of PSK added: “We can’t thank Rod enough. It’s not every day that someone runs a marathon for you and does so whilst having trained so hard and in such pain! He is an inspiration to us all and is playing an important part towards a much needed replacement van." If you’ve been inspired by Rod to do something to raise funds for PSK please contact Carlos Dominguez on 01733 380037 or fundraising@peterboroughsoupkitchen.org |  |   _______________________
Last Month We Fed 885 People Serving more than: 442 Cups of Tea 1,770 Cups of Coffee 2,655 Sandwiches 1,770 Cups of Soup _______________________ Fundraising Our New Van  Currently: £8,376 _______________________ Sleep Rough 2010  Click for More Information _______________________ |
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Duty Dates 2010
This is the PSK volunteer rota for 2010. Click the image below for a PDF version of the rota which you can view or print.
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