8th Annual Mr. Ted’s Relay

8th Annual Mr. Ted’s Relay

What is Mr. Ted’s Relay

Each year Mr. Ted and Ms. Snow like to see who can complete the most miles in a day. The problem is they are both teddy bears, Libby’s teddy bears, so need your help to complete those miles! You can help by carrying them as you walk, or run around Davidsonville Park.

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. All proceeds will go towards Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation’s “The Million Mile” fundraiser to support the Johns Hopkins Brain & Eye Tumor Laboratory, the lab that’s working with Libby’s cells to find new therapies for DIPG and childhood cancer.

The best bit about this event is how the registration fee so easily becomes so much more for Johns Hopkins! Johns Hopkins Brain & Eye Tumor Lab have a teams for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Million Mile event. We collect the registration fees for Mr. Ted’s relay and wait until right time of the month when ALSF Million Mile event has a matching partner. We then funnel the registration fees in to the John Hopkins team and they are matched. So that is $15 becoming $30. At the end of the September, Johns Hopkins then applies to ALSF for a grant in the form of all the money donated to their Million Miles team. And what do ALSF do? Match what the team raised and gives that as a grant. Think about that a few hundred times over and you can easily see how Johns Hopkins have received grants of over $60,000 each year from us running this event!

How it works

The 8 hour event is split into ‘slots’. Individuals, groups or team sign up for a slot, arrive at that time and continue to help one (or both) of the bears to keep moving.

If you would like to register a team then please contact fiona@laceemupforlibby.org to set the team up. Once set up your team members should be able to register by selecting the team from the drop down list. Otherwise just choose your time slot and be part of the solution as we raise money to support research into Childhood Cancer

Registration will be opening soon!