In preparation for my 13^th birthday where I will reach the age of bar mitzvah, I have decided to take on 13 challenges/good deeds.  This is the second one. (Probably I will do 2 more that are sponsored). With 5 Scout friends, I am going to take on the Chiltern 20 hike.  A tough 20km orienteering walk in the Chiltern Hills organised by Greater London North Scout County, to see what our physical ability is and to raise money for Allergy UK.

I am anaphylactic to peanuts and fish which means that if I eat either of them I could die. Allergy UK do amazing work offering advice, information and support to families like mine. They also help educate and support healthcare professionals and caterers, offer allergy awareness training and resource packs for schools and much more. They run a great service that informs its members of food that has been labelled incorrectly to ensure that people like me don’t eat the wrong thing. 

Allergy UK saved my life because in April Nestle accidentally packed peanut KitKat Bites in the regular KitKat bite packet. On that day allergy UK sent my mum an email saying ‘Nestle has recalled a batch of its milk chocolate KitKat Bites due to fears of a potentially deadly allergy contamination after they were incorrectly packed with peanut butter chocolates’. That very next day my grandpa bought some KitKat bites so he could give me and my brother some in the afternoon. But when I saw the chocolate I told him that there could be peanuts in the packet and so I told him to check the batch number, he read the batch number and it was one of the contaminated batches so he threw it in the bin.