Glenariff
Have been working all weekend, all day yesterday and up until lunchtime today. Thought I’d take advantage of the weather window and headed up to Glenariff. Absolutely no one there except a single cyclist. I almost asked her was she training for #PedalThePeriphery 2024 launched by NIPANC today. It was stunning. So glad I went. Busy week ahead. Filming in Dromara and mid Antrim on Thursday, up the road on Friday to the Playhouse in Derry and a stop over in Portstewart with the Hummingbirds. Would not have it any other way. #HeadSpace #OutInNature #AwayFromItAll
Here at the Lisburn Music Centre as Ali Brown closes in on securing a prestigious world drumming record for the third time. When verified, he will enter the Guinness Book of World Records once again for drumming past the current record of 134 hours and five minutes. All being well and it is, Ali will smash it at 21.06pm this evening (Friday). But he’s not stopping there. He will continue to drum until Saturday at 1pm giving the next challenger a run for their money at 6.5 days and a total of 150 hours. How he’s managed to do this epic endurance event I will never know. Great support from family and friends and physios who have stepped in to help out. ITV here yesterday, Good Morning Ulster and BBC online here this morning and BBC Newsline back for the second time this week. This has really captured press and public attention raising money and awareness of pancreatic cancer. Ali lost his partner to the disease in 2021. It has taken between six and eight months to train his body and mind to cope with the exhaustion and sleep deprivation. Just wow. To donate follow the link here https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/drumathonlivegwr. Follow the link nipanc.org/symptoms to find out how you can improve your chances of surviving this devastating disease. To watch live follow the link here https://drumathon.live/
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ITV journalist Paul Reilly interviewing Ali Brown for tonight’s Six O’ Clock News. Ali is on course to enter into The Guinness Book of World Records for drumming pretty much non stop for 150 hours. A very lucid interview and still going strong despite being sleep deprived since Sunday morning when he started this epic endurance event. Tomorrow, Friday, July 21st, at approximately 9pm is when he is set to smash the current world record. Incredible and in good form. Nipanc Board Member, Brian Gryzmek who lost his wife, Caroline to pancreatic cancer was also speaking to ITV about the importance of understanding the symptoms of the disease and being persistent in seeking early diagnosis and treatment. nipanc.org/symptoms #TimeMatters
To donate follow the link here https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/drumathonlivegwr
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Great things happen when two epic endurance events come together. Sisters Andrea Harrowerand Cathy Booth, who in June competed #PedalThePeriphery, cycling around NI taking on 480 miles in less than 4& hours, called in to the Lisburn Music Centre to show their support for Ali Brown. A great morale booster for the Lisburn man who has drummed at the time of posting 83 hours out of the 150 he intends to do to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for the third time. Cathy, Andrea and Ali; all former past pupils of Wallace High School lost loved ones to pancreatic cancer and have tested or are testing themselves to the limit to raise funds and awareness for local pancreatic cancer charity; my client Nipanc. A lovely moment to see the incredible pancreatic cancer family network in NI supporting each other again.
To donate follow the link here https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfundingdrumathonlivegwr
To survive, know the symptoms here nipanc.organic/symptoms
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Fantastic coverage on BBC Newsline last night for Ali Brown’s 150, 6.5 day attempt to drum his way back into The Guinness World Book of Records for the third time. He is doing this epic endurance event in memory of his late partner Sharon Deegan who died of pancreatic cancer. In her memory, Ali is raising funds and awareness for my client Nipanc. 270 people die of pancreatic cancer each year in NI. The best way of surviving the disease is to familiarise yourself with its symptoms and be persistent in seeking early diagnosis and treatment. Nipanc.org/symptoms. To donate please follow the link here https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/drumathonlivegwr. For symptoms nipanc.org/symptoms
In my job, I often come across the best of people. Selfless. For the last five months, I’ve worked on promoting #PedalThePeriphery campaign in which two sisters Andrea Harrower and Cathy Booth took on 480 miles cycling round the whole of NI in less than 48 hours. They raised over £100k and counting for my client Nipanc. I raised £2k of it by doing the Fermanagh Stairway to Heaven walk with my good friend Jacqui Thornton. The local pancreatic cancer charity is to put the funds towards research into early screening and diagnosis.
Now for another epic endurance event. This time from Allister Brown from Lisburn. Such a decent man. Next weekend from July 16th to 22nd, he is attempting to set a new world record by drumming continuously for 150 hours. The current record is 134 hours and five minutes. If he succeeds, he will enter the Guinness Book of World Records for the third time.
Please support him by going to the Lisburn Music Centre when the 45-year-old will test his physical and mental endurance to the limit playing 2,500 songs. He does this to raise money for and awareness about the disease in memory of his late partner Sharon Deegan who died of pancreatic cancer in January 2021, age 49. Please donate here www.just giving.com/crowdfunding/drumathonlivegwr
The purple might just give it away. Another epic fundraising endurance event for my client Nipanc. Watch out for the full story in this Thursday’s Belfast Telegraph. Great as always to work with Speed Motion Films again; the crew that filmed the creation of the #TimeMatters sand art installation at Down Hill Beach. Pics and videos complete and some great new creative ideas discussed for another Portstewart based client The Hummingbird Project who are running an event with a difference in the Autumn. Exciting. Also some ideas for NIPANC’s Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month Campaign in November. Can’t believe I’m already in the planning stages for both. Time is flying.
My working week started with the launch of Nipanc’s NI pancreatic cancer audit at an event in the Atrium of the Mater Hospital. The coverage was fantastic. Yesterday, I was filming with Speed Motion Films at Downhill beach for another major awareness and fundraising campaign for the charity. Today, I’m recording Jelvis, the Belfast busking Elvis impersonator performing Caught In A Trap (Suspicious Minds) at a #ViciousCircle conference run by my client The Hummingbird Project on the rooftop of PwC. The event is to improve the experience of homeless service users in the housing system. Real name, Jordan Devine, the performer has experienced what it’s like not to have a permanent home. Great week. Great clients. Love what I do. #communications #PR #mediarelations
Jelvis, the Belfast busking Elvis impersonator in full flight during a photoshoot at Exchange Place and various other venues around St Anne’s Cathedral. The pictures will be used to promote a conference and report on homelessness coming up in the next two weeks. More on that later. I was supposed to meet Jelvis on the steps of the Cathedral but he decided to shelter from the rain in a park nearby on Talbot Street. We couldn’t find him. Seeing three PSNI officers approaching from that direction, I said: “I’ve lost Elvis.” The reply: “He’s back there alive and well and hiding under that tree.” It was a funny moment. I love what I do and getting to meet some fantastic people along the way. Never, ever a dull moment. Great pics coming from Jonathan Jones Photography
Why is there a video of a 1974 VW Beetle engine being restored on my Carlin Creative business Facebook feed?
I could not be prouder to work on this major public awareness and fundraising campaign for my client Nipanc.
Part of a growing team of people (some affected by pancreatic cancer, others not) who want to do more to prevent the devastation caused by this deadly disease that claims the lives of 270 people locally each year.
Here Master Mechanic, Mark Strutt who lost his brother John (47) to the illness almost three years ago, breathes new life back into the currently unroadworthy vehicle.
The Beetle, owned by Andrea Harrower will support a major endurance #PedalThePeriphery event on June 9 following Andrea and her sister around NI as they attempt to cycle 480 miles in just 48 hours.
The sisters are doing this in memory of Andrea’s husband Paddy who died of pancreatic cancer last summer and Andrea her school friend of 30 years, Natalie Wilson.
The money raised will fund local research. Paddy’s bike is to be mounted on the roof of the VW and will accompany the sisters on the metaphorical journey around NI with them.
It was Paddy, a former PE teacher from Wallace High School, passionate about endurance events, who came up with the #PedalThePeriphery idea to ensure ‘something positive’ would come out of a devastating terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
A few years ago, the VW was almost sold to help the couple out during financial difficulties. Paddy refused telling Andrea “one day you will drive the VW again.’
Little then, did he know.
They say it takes a village to raise a child. In this case it is the kindness of strangers and the support of the wider pancreatic cancer family network across NI doing everything in their power to ensure Andrea and Cathy get to cross the finish line.
I have the privilege of publicising and promoting this epic story every single pedal of the way. Corporate sponsorship opportunities to brand the Bee
