Tim Stimpson a name synonymous with the pinnacle of achievement in World Rugby returned recently from a trek to the North Pol were he and a group of adventerers had trekked all to raise money for the Wooden Spoon foundation, a most worthy of rugby causes of which our own Willie John McBride is as synonymous as with the British and Irish Lions.<\/p>\n
It has been a hugh honour to catch up with Tim and Ollie Phillips who was there also as they endeavour to raise awareness of the goals of the foundation.<\/p>\n
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Tim….<\/p>\n
Who’s idea was this?<\/p>\n
What got you involved?<\/p>\n
What was the training like?<\/p>\n
Can anything prepare you for the conditions?<\/p>\n
What was the game of rugby like?<\/p>\n
How can people help?<\/p>\n
Our fundraising target is \u00a3300,000 and we still need people to donate, if they could go online and support the challenge.<\/p>\n
Anything people can donate to this is much appreciated! Details below<\/p>\n
So please give to this cause and follow the trek on the following links<\/p>\n
Tweet: Support @charityspoon #ArcticChallenge 2015! Upload your bobble hat selfie http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Dsam10 Tim Stimpson a name synonymous with the pinnacle of achievement in World Rugby returned recently from a trek to the North Pol were he and a group of adventerers had trekked all to raise money for the Wooden Spoon foundation, a most worthy of rugby causes of which our own Willie John McBride is as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12748],"tags":[14055,4962,13584,16252,5928,16682],"class_list":["post-89396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2","tag-arctic","tag-interview","tag-pole","tag-stimpson","tag-tim","tag-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89398,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89396\/revisions\/89398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJust Giving Page: mydonate.bt.com\/fundraisers\/oliverphillips1<\/a>
\nwww.arcticrugbychallenge.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"