On 30th and 31st March 2013, Glen and I will be kayaking 125miles, non-stop from Devizes to Westminster in the DW Canoe race.  This race is the longest non-stop kayak race in the world and is also know as being the common man's Everest!  This will take us between 24 and 30 hours to complete, and we'll be paddling most of the Thames in the dark.

Keep up to date with our training, preparations and other info at our blog:

http://zerotodwraceheroes.wordpress.com/

Our reason for doing all this? To raise money for the “Sands” (stillborn and neonatal death) charity.

Last January I experienced first hand the amazing work this charity does when my wife and I lost our little boy, Farley James Giffin. Without the work they have done hand in hand with the fantastic maternity unit at Frimley Park Hospital, I really don’t know how we’d have got through it. They provide training, resources and advice to hospitals so they can support grieving parents, but above all they are working to reduce the number of stillborn and neonatal deaths, which staggeringly are 10 times more common than cot-death. In the UK on an average day 17 babies are stillborn or die shortly after birth. Over the last 3 decades the number of cot-deaths have fallen by around 70%, something that Sands are striving to emulate with their research in to stillbirths and neonatal deaths. They really could make a difference.