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Hi All,

We wanted to share a story that has struck a chord with us here at Springfree Trampoline.

We are supporting a fundraiser tomorrow for a young boy with degenerative Muscular Dystrophy named Tanner. We share this in hope others may be able to help – by getting involved or even sharing the story.

ABOUT TANNER

Tanner’s story is best told by his Aunt… please read Tanner’s story here: http://herbadmother.com/tanner/

A cure for Tanner’s muscular dystrophy will not be found in his life time, so tomorrow’s fundraiser is to help renovate the basement in Tanner’s home so he can spend the time he has left with family.

As Tanner’s condition worsens his needs will become more complex – something his single mom won’t be able to deal with, and could result in him being relocated to a specialist home.

Tanner’s aunt is trying to raise $25,000 to convert Tanner’s basement into a space that will allow him and his mom to fulfill this wish to stay at home.

ABOUT THE FUNDRAISER

We recently heard through our friend and social marketing expert Scott Stratten (@unmarketing) about his Fundraiser in support of Tanner. The “Tweetathon” (Scott will be broadcasting the fundraiser from Twitter), runs tomorrow Wednesday August 4th, will run for 12 hours until 9pm EST.

For every $10 donated you can have one entry into a prize raffle to win a huge range of prizes.  One of those prizes is a Springfree Trampoline from us.

Don’t worry, you don’t have to be on Twitter to get involved, you can find all the information right here: http://bit.ly/Tweetathon

WHY WE’RE TALKING ABOUT IT

When we first read Tanner’s story we were amazed. We wanted to help straight away, no questions asked.

We enjoy making kids and their parents smile through our products. That’s why we wanted to get involved tomorrow in helping raise this money for Tanner and his family.

We want to help raise enough money to put a smile on a brave boy’s face – and hope by sharing we can make that happen.

You generally don’t see too much of me, as I much prefer to be behind the camera but what better reason to jump in celebration of our recent Australian Business Award win for Product Innovation.

The Article titled – Double Bouncing the Competition was in today’s Sunshine Coast Daily.

If not, you can watch it here – http://www.tvcentral.com.au/2010/07/26/junior-masterchef-australia-promo/

I’m not sure if it’s clever editing or what, but those kids get cook better than me! Now when I burn the chicken breast or make one very bland stir-fry I have to deal with, “Kids can cook better than you!”

How do they get so good so young?

According www.kids-cooking-activities.com, teaching kids to cook will help instill skills to last them a lifetime. Cooking can help boost their self esteem, create family time, build team skills and help kid’s appreciate to eat what they make.

When did you start teaching your kids to cook and what’s your favourite thing to cook together?

I’m so excited, and definitely can’t hide it. We have a song. The Trampoline Song.

This excites me because I’m on a tough mission to make the safe trampoline cool, and yes, that’s a Springfree™ Trampoline.

A little bit of background, we’ve been chatting with a couple of super guys from South Africa, called the Brother’s Streep.

Introducing the Brother's Streep

Basically they’re comedy song writers – they wrote a hilarious song about Anna Paquin and even got to sing it to her on the BBC on The Graham Norton show. Definately worth a look!

I loved it so much, I gave them a call. We eventually ended up chatting about trampolines (safe Springfree™ ones of course), and Dylan, Simon and the rest of the boys wrote a trampoline song. We totally loved it, and decided to help them out by supporting their trip to the Edinburgh comedy festival. (They have just arrived in London, and we’ll of course show performing pictures).

We loved the trampoline song, but we were even more excited when the boys did a special Springfree version just for us! We should have it soon… but in the meantime we’re going to keep being excited that there’s an actual song, about  jumping on trampolines!

The guys will be performing The Trampoline Song as part of their set over the next couple of weeks – AND will have a Springfree™ Trampoline on stage when they’re singing it! Yeah!!

Go, jump on your trampoline!

Hi, this is Richard – one of the newest staff members here at Springfree™ Trampoline in Toronto. I’m also new to Canada, having moved here at the end of 2009 from England.

We have a very international team here at the office with staff from all over the world working together to make the Springfree™ Trampoline as great as it is and I’m sure they or anyone who has left home will tell you every now and again the dreaded homesickness is bound to strike. It can often be the smallest thing that sets you off and in my case there is only one cure….FOOD!

Yesterday was one such day and my mind immediately wandered to thoughts of grilled chicken from my favourite restaurant back home and in particularly their delicious Peri-Peri sauce I would smother all over my plate. It never failed to disappoint.

I knew it was sold at my local supermarket so after I finished up at the office I headed off on a mission to stock up. It wasn’t long before I stood in front my beloved bottles of sauce on the shelf. Without hesitation I grabbed 2 and placed them in the basket with the rest of my groceries. As I rode the bus back to my apartment I was lost in a daydream of the little taste of home that awaited me.

What I didn’t expect to be waiting for me was the funniest coincidence I’ve experienced in a long time. Sitting outside my building was a car, not just any car but a car with this registration plate:

I just had to snap that picture on my phone. I was smiling all the way up on the elevator and better still, I didn’t feel homesick anymore.

As for my meal that night, it would be safe to say my plate was a little “2 SAUCY”.