My employer, Lloyds Banking Group, is encouraging all employees to get involved in the Captain Sir Tom Moore Challenge in association with Captain Sir Tom’s family and their charity.

The Northfield Loop are the two streets that form a loop and enclose my house and garden. By walking The Loop I am walking “around” my garden just as Captain Sir Tom did.

The total journey is 36.5 miles. You can see a map in my photos.

Colleagues at work are supporting me with donations to Lloyds’ partner charity Mental Health Uk, and I have chosen to also raise funds for Blesma,  The Limbless Veterans, as a charity whose work my husband and I know to be amazing.

Lloyds Banking Group will match all donations up to £500

Blesma, The Limbless Veterans, is dedicated to assisting serving and ex-Service men and women who have suffered life-changing limb loss or the loss of use of a limb, an eye or loss of sight. We support these men and women in their communities throughout the UK and overseas. We work tirelessly for our Members when the conflicts that have affected their lives are no longer a focal point in the nation’s media. Since 1932, we have been the only national Service charity that supports limbless veterans for the duration of their lives. Our Members range from the youngest amputee veterans to those who fought in WWII, some having lived with limb loss for more than half a century. Modern medicine transforms the physical injury, but it is a complicated process to treat the emotional trauma and related lifelong health problems.Blesma provides a network where Members not only enjoy support from our professional Welfare Team, but where they have the opportunity to engage with others who have similar injuries and backgrounds to themselves, building an important fellowship with each other to overcome everyday battles.