Thanks for visiting our Just Giving page. Jon, Charlie and Stu kayaked across The English Channel on 1st September 2012!

 

We're really pleased to have beat our stretch target of £10,000, which made the effort and training worthwhile, and is a significant amount - much more than we hoped to achieve. There's still time to sponsor us and help make our 27 mile kayak worth it!

 

So, what did we do this for?

 

Three years ago, Stu's little boy was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, a disease that we had barely heard of. Having seen what little awareness there is for this terrible disease, we felt compelled to help raise the profile for this well deserving charity.

 

Read our blog to get the full picture of how we achieved this - it's a full record of our 12 months of training, our TV and radio appearences and the fun we had undertaking this mamouth task.

 

Action Duchenne.

 

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a heartbreaking disease. Children begin to see their muscles waste away and families struggle to cope with the diagnosis and day to day management of this condition. Young men die early in late teens or are left wheelchair bound and unable to move unaided. The hope for families lies in new treatments that can slow or stop DMD in its tracks.

 

Action Duchenne is the only national Charity that exclusively funds research for a cure and promotes campaigns for better medical care for Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy.

 

To raise awareness, and some well needed funds for the charity, the three of us paddled kayaks, loaned to us by our very generous friends at Venture Kayaks, across the channel from England to France, in September 2012.

 

To achieve this we received a lot of help from family, friends and a great deal of generosity.

 

Thanks for having the time to read this, and thank you for any donation you are able to make.