Six month charity challenge

I have met and cared for so many people over the years who have touched my life and I strongly believe that the end of a person’s life deserves as much beauty, care, and respect as the beginning.

I have a young family and each morning I wake up feeling blessed that I am fit and healthy. I see so many people fighting for that extra time with their loved ones, that’s why I treasure life even more. No one knows what is round the corner.

My children love to get involved too, I think its really important to teach them that charities like ours wouldn’t be able to run if we didn’t fundraise and what a difference our community can make by getting involved.

So that’s why I set myself a challenge one day a month for six months to give a bit back to the Hospice and make a little bit of a difference.

My friends Laura, Liz and Jenny have joined me on this challenge. Jenny is Charity Champion at Morrison’s and she has been awesome, she has organised fundraising days at Morrison’s Parkgate. We have carried out bucket sales and bun sales at my children’s school, we completed a 5hr Spinathon that I roped some more of my great friends into.

Our latest challenge was running the Sheffield Half Marathon in memory of all the people I have cared for and finally our last challenge is a Dirty Rat Race which is a 13.1 mile run through and over 150 obstacles, it’s the toughest obstacle course in the UK. My friends are really wishing they hadn’t agreed to join me on this one.

My aim is to raise a £1,000 in total with the funds being split between our lovely Sun Beams Children Bereavement Support and the ward.