We are Eva (aged 3.5) and Zac (aged nearly 2) and our Auntie was Boo Armstrong, who died of cancer, aged 37, in October 2012.

Last year we set out to raise £500 for Boo's favourite charity, Women+Health, but finished with £1,077.56! You can see last year's page, with loads of touching messages, here: https://www.justgiving.com/Eva-and-Zac-for-Boo 

We're trying to raise even more this year and this is why (in W+H's words): "The Government’s austerity drive has led to a 27% cut in funding for community, social and support services across the UK, with women's services being cut by 31%. Last year’s Blue Plaques Walk raised an incredible £8000 which was a big chunk of our funding for the year. Every penny you contributed made a real difference to women in need of practical support: we kept the centre open 5 days/week, allowing us to deliver 2,500 complementary medicine sessions and 2,000+ counselling sessions to over 500 local women. We've worked with carers and survivors of domestic abuse and rape, and provided home visits to housebound women. We’ve provided health information road-shows to a much larger audience, alongside our regular crèche, free GP advisory sessions and many volunteering opportunities for women wanting to learn new skills and turn their lives around. We may not have the expensive marketing campaigns or the reach of the big national charities, but we make a real difference at grassroots level to local women becoming healthier and better informed, and feeling stronger and more able to support their families and communities." 

Our Auntie Boo was a brilliant campaigner: she fought passionately for animals (she was vegan all her adult life), gay people (she was the youngest ever Chair of Lesbian and Gay Switchboard when she was 19), women (she was director of Women+Health for ten years), the environment (she helped her sister Franny, our mum, make widely-seen films about climate change, McDonald's, animal rights and big dams) and healthcare (her last big project was to found Get Well UK, which aimed to make complementary therapies available free to everyone, regardless of whether they are rich or poor). 

Her death is an incalculable loss to us personally, to everyone who loved her, and to all the people who would have benefitted from her campaigning work. 
We are joining a team from Boo's favourite charity, Women and Health, to walk round all the Blue Plaques which honour women in Camden who have achieved amazing things. It is a 6.3 mile walk, so we'll walk as far as we can, and then have a ride in our pushchair. 

After the walk, at 3pm, there will be a ceremony to unveil Boo's very own blue plaque at Women+Health. Everyone is welcome to come along. 

Please sponsor us to raise money for Women and Health in memory of Boo.