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Eddie and Dee Ballard told the GSPCA of their daughter's fundraiser to support the charity.
"Aishling heard that the GSPCA were struggling for funding as the Covid-19 crisis was affecting their fundraising.
"She was worried that the GSPCA would not be able to help the animals so she decided to do something about it.
"Inspired by Captain Tom Morris, she came up with the idea of running a return length of her garden for each animal in care at the GSPCA.
"Little did she realise that there were 306 at the time, as they are very busy.
"She even added more return lengths onto this total in order to come to a total distance for her run of 10 Km.
"On the day the weather was perfect and she smashed it.
"We are all very proud of her.
"Her dog Willow even joined in for some of the run.
"At last count she raised over £450 which was amazing.
"A massive thank you to everybody for your support.
Steve Byrne GSPCA Manager said "A huge thank you to Aishling for her Animal Run 306.
"You might want to know why it was called Animal Run 306, well on the day we were communicating we had exactly 306 animals in our care.
"Aishling really smashed her £306 target of £1 towards the care of every animal and is currently on £477.20.
"Aishling completed her challenge on the 23rd May and she even did an extra 28 laps on top of the 306 to make a grand total of 10 kilometres, which is amazing.
"We cannot her enough for her support, her amazing challenge and of course to all that donated and supported her.
"You can still donate to this young ladies page and support the care of the animals at the GSPCA by going to https://giving.gg/donate/event/5895/Aishling-s-animal-run-306."
Here are some of the amazing words of support from the giving.gg page to Aishling –
Declan Rigney said “Well done aisling. We are all so proud of you. Lots of love. Granny Maire Grandad Tom aunty Anne and uncle Deck.”
Gerry Mackle said “Well done Aishling.”
Katherine Tetlow said “Well done Aisling hope you’re not too tired at the end!”
Alissa Kharroubi said “Well done Aishling! Such a good cause to support. So proud of you!”
Michelle Jamison said “Well done Aishling fantastic effort.”
Lynn Ballard said “Well done Aishling.”
For lots of ways of getting involved and supporting the GSPCA please visit - http://www.gspca.org.gg/fundraising
Pictured top: Aishling Ballard running with her dog Willow
