Ashley Mason

My epic River Thames Path walk. 266 miles from Source to Sea

Fundraising for Oxford Transplant Foundation
£3,031
raised of £2,550 target
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Thames Path - From Source to Sea, 20 September 2020

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Hello! You may have followed my Thames Path journey over the last 2 and a bit weeks.

In September 2020 I walked 266 miles in 17 days. From the Source of the Thames near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, to the North Sea at the Isle of Grain, in Kent.

I passed through 9 counties, met countless wonderful people & gained a ridiculous amount of painful blisters for my troubles. By the end my feet were red raw & burning with every footstep. It was a ridiculous bloody-mindedness that kept me going for the last 4 days.

I kept being asked if this was a charity thing. Initially no, it was just a challenge I’d always wanted to do. But as I’ve now completed it - I can’t really not plug something close to my heart, can I?

The Oxford Transplant Foundation is my chosen charity,  They run the Transplant Centre at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford - a wonderful centre of research & support for patients & donors. 

My wife was a live-donor recipient of a kidney last year, and I am in awe of what they do there and what they have done & continue to do for her & other patients.

The Oxford Transplant Foundation’s mission is to further the science and practice of transplantation by... 

  • Building and equipping clinical and research facilities
  • Providing ongoing funding for these facilities
  • Funding education, training and research posts connected with the facilities
  • Providing information for patients, donors, relatives, carers and others with an interest in transplantation
So you’ll see it is a highly worthwhile cause to stick something across to. Don’t you reckon?

So please, if you have got ANY enjoyment whatsoever out of following my adventures these past 17 days, it would be lovely if you can donate what you can afford. 

Ideally £100 each would be nice. 👍
But no pressure, you tight arses! 🥴😉

Thanks for keeping me going with your messages of support throughout! Genuinely helped a lot.

Oh and make sure you are opted in onto the organ donor register. You may just save someone’s life! 👍🍺🥾🌊

Love,
Ash

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About the charity

The Oxford Transplant Foundation is an independent charity established to raise funds for the sole benefit of the Oxford Transplant Centre. The Foundation raises funds that are used to enhance the Centre's facilities and to promote research in transplantation. It is devoted to the dissemination of information about the latest medical developments and their implications for improving patient care. The Foundation provides opportunities for stakeholders of the Oxford Transplant Centre -- from patients, doctors, through to carers and scientists -- to work together in continuing to build the Centre's reputation as a world leader in transplantation.

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