I thought my 7.00am exercise swims every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at speedysharks.co.uk excellent 10m pool might come in handy to support Framework's Homeless to Home Challenge - part of its winter fundraising effort. 

My target was Five Miles for Framework in the month of November; in the end I managed just short of six miles with a day to go - see the post for 12 December. 

I started fundraising late and with modest expectations however people rallied to the cause with very generous gifts including two or three winter fuel allowance payments. 

As a result we have smashed my most ambitious target of £1,500 and now broken through the £2,000 barrier! Thank you very much to everyone who has contributed so far.

Framework's Challenge has finished - read the posts to see how I reached my goal - but we are fundraising until the end of January so you can still reward my efforts and encourage others to do so. 

Please don't hold back, and give generously in this season of goodwill to help all the homeless people Framework will support this winter and throughout the year.  

You can find out more about the charity's work at frameworkha.org  

With many thanks - and Happy Christmas. 

Chris