This year is our biggest campaign yet!  We have set a huge target of £16,000 to raise for The Fire Fighters Charity and our Kilimanjaro challenge. 

 To help us reach this target we have organised the following events:-

 1.  Karen & Jenny’s Pub Quiz at The British Legion, Newtown St Boswells at 19:30 this Saturday!  £5 per Person and we are looking for teams of 4.  Can you beat the BBA in a pub quiz?

2.  Also this Saturday we will be in Peebles from 10am until 4pm collecting on the High Street.  Please come and see us!

3.  BBA Chef Rob’s 3 Course Meal at St Marys School in Melrose on Saturday 18^th of May.  PLACES STILL AVAILABLE!

4.  Sunday the 26^th of May.  It’s the Return of the BBA’s R.P.Adam Sponsored Pantomime Horse Race at Kelso Races!  RUN IN OUR HORSES AND YOU COULD WIN £100!

5.  THE BBA’s Own Lee & Rob will also be running The Edinburgh Marathon on the same day!  GOOD LUCK LADS!!!

6.  On Saturday the 1^st Of June the BBA will be holding a Sponsored Day Running on a Treadmill in Sainsburys in Kelso!

7.  On Saturday the 8^th of June it’s the BBA Ceilidh at Lilliesleaf village hall.  TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE!

8. On Saturday the 8th of June come and train with the BBA and our Trainer!  Morning Trek with Challenges and afternoon Boot camp!

9.  On Saturday the 6^th of July the BBA will be holding a Sponsored Day Running on a Treadmill in Sainsburys Hawick!

10.  On Saturday the 13^th of July the BBA will be holding a Sponsored Day Running on a Treadmill in Morrison’s Hawick!

11.  On Friday the 26^th of July it’s the BBA Charity Casino Night with Edinburgh Fun Casino at the Volunteer Hall in Galashiels!  Great Prizes available!  TICKETS £10!

12.  On Saturday the 27^th Of July the BBA return to Jedburgh Castle Jail for a special one of Sponsored Paranormal Investigation with Esoteric Paranormal from 10pm until 5am!  Tickets £30!

13.  The BBA are organising a charity Abseil to take place in August at the Scottish Borders Council HQ Flag Tower, in Newtown St Boswells.  MORE DETAILS COMING SOON!

14.  On Saturday the 17^th Of August the BBA will be holding a Sponsored Day Running on a Treadmill in FULL PPE GEAR at Ocean Terminal in Edinburgh!

15.  On Saturday the 24^th Of July the BBA will be holding one of our popular Golf Competitions at Monksford Hose, Newtown St Boswells.  Texas  Scramble Golf Comp, £25 per Person. PLACES NOW AVAILABLE!

 TO BOOK ANY OF OUR EVENTS PLEASE EMAIL lee@bordersbarmyarmy.com OR CLICK THE CONTACT US BUTTON ABOVE.

 Want to win £100? 

Sponsor the BBA for our Kilimanjaro challenge any time between now and the 25^th of October and you will be entered into a draw to win £100!

Please visit http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/bordersbarmyarmy to sponsor us.

On Saturday the weather was on our side as we spent the day washing cars at Adam Purves Shell Garage, Wilderhagh Galashiels.

 Firstly we would like to say a huge thank you to Adam Purves for allowing us to be part of their event.  They launched a new VPower Plus fuel on the day and allowed us to hold a charity car wash in aid of The Fire Fighters Charity at their event.

 We would also like to thank The Scottish Fire Service – East and Galashiels Blue watch for coming along and supporting us on the day.  Halfords and Car Parts4U for donating EVERYTHING we needed to wash the cars on the day and to everyone who came along and let us wash their cars in exchange for donations.  We are very grateful! 

 We made a fantastic £318.65 on the day.   THANK YOU!!!!

 Next up we will be Street Collecting in Hawick on the 4^th of May followed by Peebles on the 11^th. 

You can sponsor the BBA at http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/bordersbarmyarmy

LEE COMPLETED THE CHALLENGE IN AID OF THE FIRE FIGHTERS CHARITY IN AN IMPRESSIVE 1 HOUR 49 MINUTES!  THANKS TO ALL WHO SPONSORED THE LADS FOR THIS CHALLENGE!!!!

The BBA;s Very own Lee Myers and Brian Gibson will be taking on the Edinburgh Rock N Roll Half Marathon this Sunday!

Lee runs as part of this years campaign for the Fire Fighters Charity that will see us also take on the Edinburgh Marathon and climb Kilimanjaro!

Brian is running for The MMRF and is his second challenge of the Year for this charity having completed the race up the Empire State Building in New York in Feburary.  Brian is also climbing Kilimanjaro with Team BBA and you can find out more about his chosen charity here.

http://www.themmrf.org/

To sponsor either Lee or Brian you can donate via Paypal and the link at the top of the page.

We will let you know how they get on this Sunday!

GOOD LUCK LADS!!!!

THE NEW DATE FOR KELSO RACES IS SUNDAY THE 26TH OF MAY!

We are delighted to team up with Kelso Races  for the fourth time and announce the Borders Barmy Army National Pantomime Horse Race 2013. The race is being held to raise funds for the BGH Macmillan Cancer Centre and The Fire Fighters Charity. This event is part of our BBA Year Of Madness Campaign that will see us take on a number of challenges including The Edinburgh Marathon, a free fall parachute jump and climb Mount Kilimanjaro!

We are also delighted to annonce the race is being sponsored by R.P. Adam for the 3rd time in a row!

This is a very exciting and unique way, not only to support charity, but also to support your local community as we are an official Macmillan committee and we guarantee that Macmillan’s share of this campaign will stay in the Scottish Borders as we have done for the last two years.

This Pantomime Horse race will be taking place on Sunday the 26h May 2013and will be Bigger and Better than the year before!

As with last year, we are offering a cash prize for the winning Horses, the Saddle Cloths will be professionally printed by Reiver Embroidery showing sponsors names and logos. We have recruited an official photographer to capture all of the action and the prize giving ceremony! This will be a novel and great way to advertise your business and donate to renowned and deserved charities!

We would like to offer you an excellent advertising and fun opportunity:-

Horse Sponsor Package:-

1. Cash Prizes now on offer of 1st Place £100, 2nd Place £60, 3rd Place £40 Plus SPECIAL PRIZE for last place! This will be presented to the winning horses during our official winning ceremony.

2. Professional Printed Saddle Cloth with Sponsor Name and Logo.

3. PA announcement of your horse, business name and a Paragraph of your choice explaining your business in front of 6000 spectators!

4. A good chance of TV appearance (Courtesy of Sky’s At the races! Some of the action was picked up both the last three years!). See below for YouTube video of our inaugural race 2009and 2011.

5. All Horse Sponsors will receive their logo and business description in the race card next to their entry.

6. Free entry to Kelso Races for the two Runners in your horse.

Sponsors are asked to provide two adventurous people to run in their horse. The winners of our big race will have their photo taken with our official race sponsor showing the winning horse logo. This photo will be sent to the local press, who always print it, after our big day! Don’t forget your company logo may be show on Sky’s At the races if the camera picks up the action like they have done in the past.

7. We would prefer you to provide the 2 runners but we can supply runners if you require.

8. Each horse race sponsor will receive unlimited half price entry tickets (£10) to the members enclosure, so you can bring as many supporters as you like to cheer your horse on and enjoy a day out at Kelso Races.

9. Kelso Races are providing the exclusive use of the “No nonsense bar” for The Borders Barmy Army, Horse Sponsors and all their supporters to enjoy the days racing in style. It would make a great “works day out” or a family/friends day.

All available for £120 per pantomime horse!

Finally We now have 6 limited edition animals available including a Hippo, Camel, Cow, Zebra, Elephant and Black Stallion all available on a first come first served basis for £140 each.

If you would be interested in taking part in this excellent Advertising opportunity and this extremely unique way to support your local community and donate to charity please contact us on the details below.

The video footage and more information on last year’s race can be found at http://www.bordersbarmyarmy.com/kelso-races-sat-15-oct

We are looking for businesses to sponsor us and help cover the cost of our Kilimanjaro challenge.  Would you like to see your company logo at the top of Kilimanjaro?
http://issuu.com/twin02/docs/bba_sponsorship_opertunity/1

Unfortunately, due to weather conditions, the Kelso Races race meeting for tomorrow (23rd March) including the famous BBA pantomime horse race has been cancelled. Discussions are underway to re-arrange. Watch this space.

Thank you to all our sponsors and supporters for this event.

To ALL our sponsors and EVERYONE who has donated, bought raffle tickets, climbed mountains etc, etc we would like to say a huge

THANK YOU

The Borders Barmy Army would like to announce that we have now crossed the fund raising threshold of

FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS

£50,000

Best regards
All the Borders Barmy Army team
“Aint no stoppin us now”

We will be climbing Kilimanjaro on the 25th of Oct for the Fire Fighters Charity

The BBA year of Madness is well underway!  This year we will be taking part in various challenges for the Rowan Boland Trust, Local Macmillan, The Friends of the BGH and The Fire Fighters Charity including the Edinburgh Marathon, the 4^th Sponsored Pantomime Horse Race at Kelso Races, Tough Mudder Scotland, The Great North Run and will finish with a once in a lifetime challenge!

We are delighted to announce that on Friday the 25^th of October until the 3^rd of November we be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of the Fire Fighters Charity!

Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest walkable mountain in the world.  We have chosen to trek to the world famous summit via the Machame route.  The Machame route will provide us with a tough 37 miles trek over 6 days.  The route will put us through our biggest challenge to date as we climb to 5,895M, battle against up to -20 temperatures and 75mph winds with less than 50% of normal sea level oxygen ALL IN FIRE FIGHTER PPE GEAR!

We have enjoyed a fantastic relationship with the Fire Fighters charity over the last couple of years and are delighted to team up with the Charity and Action Challenge UK to offer people the chance to take part in this once of a lifetime challenge in aid of the Fire Fighters Charity.  We would like to give people the chance to join us for a very competitive price of £250 registration fee and a minimum sponsorship of £3,300.

We are also looking for local businesses to sponsor us by helping to cover the costs of the challenge.  We are offering sponsorship packages which will allow your business to gain exposure whilst helping the local community and donating to charity.  Imagine your logo at the top of world Famous Kilimanjaro! Please get in touch to discuss further by using our contact page.

Anyone interested in joining us in our challenge please email lee@bordersbarmyarmy.com for further details or by using our contact page.

Please visit our partners websites :-

www.firefighterscharity.org.uk

www.kilimanjarochallenge.com

The itinerary of our Trip is :-

DAY 1 DEPARTURE FROM LONDON

DAY 2 ARRIVE MOSHI
Transfer to hotel. Welcome dinner and briefing.

DAY 3 MACHAME CAMP / 3000M / 5-6HR TREK
Transfer to Machame Gate. Register and begin Kilimanjaro climb through rainforest zone to camp.

DAY 4 SHIRA CAMP / 3840M/ 6-7HR TREK
Steep ascent through moorland up to the Shira Plateau.

DAY 5 BARRANCO CAMP / 3950M / 6-7HR TREK
Trek through barron moonlike landscape to Lava Tower for lunch and on to camp.

DAY 6 BARAFU CAMP / 4600M / 6-7HR TREK
We scramble up and over the Barranco Wall, then trek onward to camp.

DAY 7 SUMMIT DAY / BARAFU CAMP/ 5895M / 12-13HR TREK
At midnight we ascend by torch light to the summit. Via Stella point we make our final traverse to the highest point in Africa at 5895m. Descend back to Barafu and on to Millennium Camp.

DAY 8 MOSHI / 5-6HR TREK
Descend on Mweka trail to the gate. Transfer to hotel and enjoy a celebratory dinner.

DAY 9 FREE DAY/ EVENING FLIGHT

DAY 10 ARRIVE BACK IN LONDON

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE BBA!

2012 has been a phenomenal year for the BBA, our National 3 peaks challenge was hugely successful and between us and our brave participants we have raised a staggering £6,000 for local Macmillan so far!

After the success of the 3 peaks and our previous campaigns we have been approached by many people asking us what are we going to do next?

We really want to do something very different in 2013, we want to push ourselves more than we have ever before all in the name of charity, and we hope this will be the most successful campaign yet.

The next campaign will be the BORDERS BARMY ARMY YEAR OF MADNESS ………………………………

The Borders Barmy year of madness will see us take on not 1, not 2 but a series of challenges throughout 2013 all in Aid of Local Macmillan, The Fire Fighters Charity and various other local charities.

The Madness Includes :-

1) The Innerleithen Deerstalker 2013

2)  Tough Mudder Scotland 2013

3)  The 4th Sponsored Pantomime Horse Race at Kelso Races

4) Edinburgh Marathon

5) The Captain’s Sky Dive Challenge

6) BBA Mount Kilimanjaro challenge – IN KILTS OR FULL FIRE FIGHTER PPE GEAR!

6) And various other events.

More information to follow.

if you want to speak to us about our year of madness, please email us via the contact us button at the top of the page.

Borders Barmy Army Year Of Madness 2013!!!

The BBA completed our fundraising for 2012 by presenting a cheque to Macmillan at the Macmillan Centre at the Borders General Hospital for £5,500 on Friday Night.  This is the total raised from our 3 Peaks challenge that took place in August, and we are delighted to confirm that every penny has gone to LOCAL Macmillan and will help local people!  We would like to say a huge thank you to all 20 of our participants for taking part and for doing such a fantastic job with their sponsorship, Telfords of Newcastleton for being our transport partner and for working with us during this extremely difficult challenge, to Borders Sports & Leisure trust who helped all our participants get to the required fitness for this event and to the Kilt Shop and Reiver Embroidery for their continued support.

2012 has been a year we will never forget!  This year we have supported no less than 6 charities!  We took part in the Star Walk for the Rowan Boland Trust, We abseiled off the BGH for The Friends Of the BGH Charity,  We swam a mile in our kilts for Sports Relief, the BBA ‘s Lee & Steve completed Movember for the 3^rd year in a row, are biggest campaign of the year was our 3 peaks challenge for Macmillan and was the first campaign for the BBA as an official Macmillan Board for the Borders and finally we completed a campaign for the Fire Fighters Charity that saw us complete a sponsored day running on a Treadmill in full Fire Fighter Gear at Ocean Terminal, The Fire Fighter for a day Challenge with Lothian Borders Fire & Rescue service and The Tough Enough Challenge with Lancashire Fire & Rescue service (which the BBA won!) all this lead to us being nominated for an award with the Fire Fighters Charity and attend a ceremony at 10 Downing St.  A truly unforgettable year!

2013 is going to be even bigger as we take on The BBA Year Of Madness! This will see us take on a series of challenges for Local Macmillan, The Fire Fighters Charity, The Rowan Boland Trust, The Friends of the BGH and The Margaret Kerr Unit including The Innerleithan Deer Stalker, Edinburgh Marathon, The Great North Run, The 4^th sponsored Pantomime Horse Race at Kelso Races and will Finnish with a Free Fall Parachute Jump and the BBA climbing Mount Kilimanjaro!  Plus Much more still tobe annonced!

We would like to thank everyone for their continued support and would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and all the very best for 2013!

Best Wishes

Steve, Lee, Liam, Rich, Kev, Paul, Rob, Chris & Mikey.  The Borders Barmy Army.