Dominique Swirles and Kelly Ulatowski have agreed to run the 2008 London Marathon for The FSI and The FSI are crazy enough to set them a second challenge at the same time. It goes something like this…

Kelly and Dominique have each been given a purple paperclip. They have 70 days (until the 30th March 2008) to trade their paperclips for bigger and better items. After the deadline has passed the much bigger and brilliant items are then put on to eBay to auction (or the most suitable auctioning house) to raise funds towards our marathon targets - combined they are over £30,000!

How it works.

Dominique currently has  'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini - author of The Kiterunner - hardback book

Kelly currently has three options:

a Box of Fortnum and Mason Chocolates
a Bottle of Amor Perfume from Cacharel
or a BNIB Foo Fighters Live in London Hyde Park Skin and Bones DVD

Don't forget it's nearly Mothers' Day!


Do you have anything you would like to trade for any of our items? Keep up to date with the goings on, and get involved in the swap, by joining 'The FSI Marathon Trade Up' group on Facebook. If you're not on Facebook, create a page to join in! Then if you have a proposal for a swap simply post your proposal addressed to your chosen runner on the discussion board or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   and we will get in touch with you if we are interested in a trade. The item that offers the biggest step up from the current item will be agreed for a trade. Think big, think bold, think money can’t buy and help us raise funds to support The FSI.

All trades will be subject to handover agreements made between The FSI and traders.

Check out our Marathon page for more information: http://www.thefsi.org/london-marathon-2008.html