Our 2023 Charity Challenge is here… As a team, our goal is to walk a total of 11,072 miles over the course of this year! This is the equivalent of walking the coastline of mainland Britain. We’ve all downloaded an app to help us track our walks and we each need to do the equivalent of a mile per day to hit our target.
But, the miles aren’t our only target, we’re also hoping to raise £11,072 in donations too. That is, a pound for each mile walked.
All of our fundraising is going towards a local charity which supports children with cancer, Alfie’s Wish. When employees were asked to nominate a charity to support, this was by far the most popular!
Alfie was an amazing little boy who was diagnosed with an Ependymoma brain tumour when he was just 8 months old. This is a life-threatening brain tumour and following diagnosis he underwent lots of different gruelling treatments.
Sadly, after years of fighting, Alfie lost his battle with cancer at only 5 years old.
His parents James & Charlotte set up Alfie’s Wish in his legacy to help support other children with cancer. The charity supports children (aged 0-16 years) in the UK with cancer by sending them on family days out to make memories together at a UK destination.
For Alfie’s family, having these special memories to look back on always helps to make them smile when they’re feeling sad. So, they want to help other families make these valuable memories too. Your generous donations will help Alfie’s Wish fund these special days out.
So far, our walking challenge is going well and our donations for Alfie’s Wish have started rolling in too. Each month we are holding group walks to help boost the total. Our January walk is a 5 and a half mile route here in Southampton…
If you’d like to donate towards our challenge (and help us reach our fundraising target), we’ve set up a JustGiving page, we’d really appreciate your support!
