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This Lent I'll be running. First 1km on the 17th February, then 2km on the 18th, then 3km increasing by 1km each day ending my challenge by running 46km on the 3rd April. I'll be covering a total distance of 1081km (671.7023 miles in old money), anyone who knows me at all knows I am not built to run...
This year the charity I will be supporting is the Severn Hospice. The charitable trust runs three separate hospices as well as providing care at home. I was inspired to raise money for them following the death of a wonderful woman I wish I'd had the pleasure to know better. I met Catherine Ennis while teaching her husband, John, the bassoon. She always took the time to find out what I’d been up to, listening to or conducting and how I was; she was always kind and encouraging. Catherine was a wonderful organist. I only heard her play live twice - once at St Lawrence Jewry and a recital at Westminster Cathedral in 2018. Both experiences were moving and inspirational. She spent her last weeks in the Shrewsbury hospice where John tells me she was kindly and lovingly cared for.
Severn Hospice is with families from the moment they're referred to its care for as long as they need it, and it does this every day, all day for anyone in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Mid Wales who needs that help.It does this for them for free, but it is not without cost and it can't happen without you.For every £1 you donate, they will spend 86p directly on care - and use the remaining 14p to make another £1.Last year, all those individual donations helped us provide £9.88 million of caring services.
Please give as generously as you are able to.