charity

  • Why I Support The Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust

    This week is National Marine week for the Wildlife Trusts in the UK. So I thought I’d take this opportunity to talk about a charity I’ve been supporting for some time – The Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust. How I became a member. I joined the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust in 2007 during my college years and have been a member ever since. I was in our local Homebase (DIY store) when I…

  • Post Race Thoughts From My First Monster Race

    “If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. If you can’t crawl, find someone to carry you”. – Malcolm Reynolds in Firefly. In July I signed up for the Winter Monster Race in Wiltshire with some of my colleagues, where we raised money for a local children’s charity: Cirencester Opportunity Group who support children with physical and learning disabilities (you can sponsor us here, if you want to).…

  • Post race thoughts from my first 5km Race4Life 

    I did it! I completed my 5km for Cancer Research UK’s Race4Life! 😀 … I was feeling very nervous this morning and spent my day at work dreading it. It felt like all those exams I had in school and when I took my driving test. I was so nervous, I thought about if it rained, if I slipped, if I fell on my bum. Thankfully only the rain part…

  • Cancer Research UK’s Race4Life | My First 5K

    I’ve been increasing my exercise recently by running routes around my home town. I’ve been running little over a month now and went from being barely able to run 1km to now running 4km without stopping. 🙂  I signed up for Cancer Research UK’s Race4Life on 8th June and my aim is to run 5km in 45 minutes and I’m track to meet that target having run 4km in 33…