News - 29 August 2008

Team ABDS are well and truly rising to the challenge of this years BUPA Great South Run, training has already begun in earnest with Oxford Street residents bearing witness to the posse of athletes pounding the pavements for charity.

Lavinia Newman, Partner at ABDS comments, "Leukemia Research really is a fantastic cause to be running in aid of and we look forward to raising well needed sponsorship". In all, six members of ABDS are taking part, ranging from accountancy to marketing and there is unique atmosphere as Team ABDS has a variety of age groups and running experience.

The BUPA Great South Run is Europe's premier 10 mile running event, starting at the Blue Reef Aquarium and finishing at the Pyramid Centre on the morning of Sunday 26th October. over 15,000 entrants will be taking part, making the event one of the most successful in THE GREAT RUN calendar.

Team ABDS are running in association with Leukemia Research, an extremely worthy charity which will benefit from the hard work the ABDS competitors are putting in. To sponsor Team ABDS please visit the Team ABDS just giving page at this link.

UPDATE: Our fundraising exploits have been picked up by The Southern Daily Echo (8th September 2008), which ran a print and online feature on ABDS , you can view the online article here.