Southern Motor Contracts Limited

Mark's 30 Day Challenge

Fundraising for The Rowans Hospice
£5,371
raised of £2,500 target
30 Day Challenge , 1 November 2021
The Rowans Hospice

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RCN 299731
We provide palliative and end of life care to people with a life-limiting illness

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The company Managing Director, Mark Baumfield has decided to partake in a 30 day challenge throughout the month of November. Each day in November Mark will embark on a new challenge, which will consist of a variety of fitness, eating and painful challenges! He is planning on pushing himself to his limits whether its physically or mentally each day and with this in mind is looking to raise as much money as he can for an incredible local charity, The Rowans Hospice.

The Rowans Hospice is a local charity providing specialist hospice care and support to patients with life-limiting illnesses, their families and carers. They provide free care to those that need it through the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire region. The charity holds a place close to the heart of the staff here and we hope with
all of your kind support we can raise as much money as possible to support them. Any donations are hugely welcome, especially in a very tough time for everyone with the events going on in the world.

1st November – Be a target – Mark is going to
stand in a pair of shorts whilst staff throw any food/drink of their choice at him. He will be subject to only a cold hose for washing facilities after!

2nd November – Ghost Chilli!!! – It does what it says on the tin, Mark is going to eat a Ghost Chilli!!

3rd November – Office Apprentice – All the jobs every puts to the bottom of the pile.. whether its filing, cleaning the toilet or whatever is asked of him. If a member of staff needs some work doing, Mark
will do it!

4th November – Press ups – 300 pressups in 90 minutes, it was going to be 120 mins, but Mark wanted to push it!

5th November – Raw eggs – Attempt to drink a pint of raw eggs.

6th November – Roly poly time – Mark will roly poly all the way round the outside of a full sized football pitch

7th November – Home yes day – Marks daughter has always wanted a yes day, so here it is… although he is making the exception of saying yes to buying her a horse!!

8th November – Get the legs ready – Mark will have a full leg wax!

9th November – Burpees – 300 burpees in 120 minutes.

10th November – Ladies day – Mark will dress like a lady for the day, make up included..

11th November – Hungry? – Mark will completely fast for 24 hours, no food or drink!

12th November – Work yes day – Foolishly, Mark won’t be able to say No for the day at work! (Customers, do not be concerned, work duties will not be compromised!!)

13th November – Bare Foot – 24 hours with no shoes or socks.

14th November – Hula Hoop – an exercise hula hoop for 25 minutes, Mark has a distinct lack of rhythm!!

15th November – Car Walk – Mark is going to pull a car (plus one small driver) for 250 metres

16th November – Volunteer – Volunteer for a charity for a day, helping where he can.

17th November – Long ride – On a static bike in the office, Mark will ride from 9.00am – 5.00pm only with a 5 minute break each hour and 20 minutes for a sandwich at 1.00pm!

18th November – Stilton – A whole block of stilton will be consumed without a break, only water and a bucket to accompany.

19th November - Time to waltz – A friend has challenged Mark to ride the Waltzers 5 times in a row. Baring in mind he can’t ride the tea cups without wanting to throw up!

20th November – Long run – Without any training, Mark is going to attempt a 20k (12.5 mile) run..

21st November – Ice bath – probably a welcomed, 10 minute ice bath!

22nd November – Bushtucker Trial – time to eat some locusts and mealworms!

23rd November – Silence – No speaking for 24 hours… yeh right!! Still available via email for the day.

24th November - Cake time – Baking is not a skill Mark has honed, but he is going to Mark the staff a cake for Monday!

25th November – Show his love – Stand in the middle of Trafalgar Square on Liannes (wife) birthday and have a banner displaying his love for her for 30 minutes.

26th November – Staff Cars – clean all the staff cars

27th November – Walkathon – 12 hour walk

28th November – Swim in the sea – 1km swim in the sea.

29th November – Clean customers cars – for a donation to charity, Mark will hoover, wipe and wash your car!

30th November – Relief – Mark will donate £100.00 to the charity for everyone to look after him after a tough month!

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About the charity

The Rowans Hospice

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RCN 299731
Rowans Hospice provides end of life care across South East Hampshire. We help improve quality of life for the patient around the clock. We receive a very small level of Government support and almost all of the money required to provide our services needs to be raised through voluntary giving.

Donation summary

Total raised
£5,370.38
+ £872.00 Gift Aid
Online donations
£5,370.38
Offline donations
£0.00

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