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As a charity, we travel in vans 403.6 miles a week across three teams of practitioners. We visit our clients with additional and complex needs once a week, over a period of six months or in some cases five years or more. This commitment gives us all the chance to build relationships as we find out about each other.

Most weekly sessions are shared between a few people who live together. We aim to find out how people express themselves and then work alongside each person to help them develop that self-expression in order to have a greater influence on their own lives and the people around them. This can be a long and subtle process and we aim to make it an enjoyable as well as an empowering one. The main approach we use is Intensive Interaction, a highly effective approach of which much has been written.

I will swim, run and cycle 403.6 miles, accruing the distance as quickly as I can fit it in while being the father to a six year old boy. Many of the people we visit have a sensory impairment, so I will travel a part of both swimming and running while blindfolded, guided by a friend or colleague. I will do several miles of the cycling one handed. I have set the distance of each activity in proportion to an Olympic Triathlon. This will mean swimming 12 miles, cycling 313 miles, and running 78 miles. I'll attempt to complete the triathlon sequentially, i.e I won't include the distance I am cycling during the period I am swimming. However, if it's simply taking too long to swim 12 miles, I might be forced to break that rule. I intend to complete the challenge in under six months, and hopefully will smash that deadline.

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