Cavell Nurses' Trust are here for UK Nurses, Midwives and HCAs, both working and retired, supporting them through times of personal hardship, be it illness, domestic abuse, disability, working poverty or old age. Put simply, we are ‘Here for Nurses’.

Nurses can work exhausting shifts of up to 12 hours, that’s why we will kayak for 12 hours straight. The physical strain that we will experience is nothing like the mental strain our nurses deal with every day, often facing life or death situations, but we will try our best...

Both Cam and I are new to kayaking, we have given ourselves 12 weeks to get ready for this 12 hour  challenge so a big thank you is in order to The Sharks for helping us get some techniques to be able to survive this ordeal.

http://www.thesharks.org.uk

Please  visit their page if you are interested in trying kayaking for only £6 a session with no joining fee or subscriptions.

We’ve worked out that we will burn about 6000 Calories to complete our challenge, that's nearly 3 days worth of food.

Some of the workers that this charity helps have a salary of only £18K, not much for helping people to stay alive!!!!

If you own a kayak or a canoe and have a river licence, please feel free to come join us. We will start at 8AM. More details will be given closer to the time, or if you just wish to donate some money to this worthy cause then please hit the donate link below.

Many thanks Kurt and Cameron 😀

Also here are some facts about nurses;

1. On average 312 nurses per trust are assaulted at work each year

2. In England, there are 200 reported physical assaults on NHS staff everyday.

3. Many nurses suffer domestic abuse - 1/7 of nurses, midwives and HCA's has experienced domestic abuse in the last year.

4. Nurses walk an average 5k on 12 hour shift.

5. Only 3/5 nurses work in hospitals.

6. Nurses make up over half of medical students.

7. Nurses often forget about self care

8. Many nurses suffer from anxiety from the pressures of their job role - The nursing profession rated their anxiety 4.93 out of 10. The general public rated theirs at just 2.93.

9. Nurses, midwives and HCA's are nearly twice as likely to be unable to afford the basic necessities many of us take for granted.