Cotswold Plod - Charity Walk - Action for Medical Research for Children

How hard can a charity walk be? It’s just one foot in front of the other, right? Well, at midnight on Friday 7th June 2013, the team will be tackling a 40 mile walk across the Cotswold Way, and it’s been described by the organisers as “not for the faint hearted or ill prepared”... this may not be as easy as we’d thought for us, office based softies!

Our training to begin with had been going well, our walks in and around Bristol had been relatively easy, and we had been improving on our times. So when it came to trying out the first stage of the Cotswold PLOD for training, we thought we’d be done in no time! However, when reaching the top of the first hill out of breath and wondering why on earth we’d decided to do this, some of us realised that doing 40 miles non-stop would be no easy feat! All of this, of course, is for a very good cause, and our training and fitness has improved (honest!).

Action for Medical Research for Children is a fantastic charity. You’d be surprised to hear how we all may have benefitted from their work at some point. Here are some of their major initiatives:

• Help in funding the first Polio vaccine
• Help fund the development and on-going development of a Meningitis vaccine
• Ultrasound scanning in Pregnancy
• Help fund the development of the Rubella Vaccine
• Developing a brain and heart scanner for babies
• New scanning techniques for Epilepsy
• Help fund the technique for finding faulty genes for rare disease
• Preventing Spina Bifida through Folic Acid research
• THE LIST GOES ON

So if you’d like to contribute to an amazing charity, or you just see the comedy value of a group of office dwellers on a 40 mile trek, please donate what you can: http://www.action.org.uk/sponsor/sandersongd