Thank you for taking time to visit my Age UK Essex - Himalayan trek JustGiving page.

I have been a pro-active Befriending and Active life volunteer for
Age UK Essex during the last 5 years. This has allowed me to make huge and profound differences in the lives of so many people we support.

At Age UK Essex we work hard to engage with older people and respond to their needs. Our support services reach out to those who need help and enable them to enjoy later life. Some of the services we offer are:

• Advocacy teams help people to make informed choices, explore options, make decisions and articulate their needs and wishes.

• Our Information and Advice service makes asking for help easy. Our expert team of advisors are fully trained to offer help and advice on a huge range of issues including welfare benefits and housing..

• Dementia Connections is a free, county-wide service being delivered by the Alzheimer’s Society and Age UK Essex.

• Home Help team delivers a range of services from housework to shopping.

• Our Befriending Service is provided to people over the age of 60 who are living with the effects of loneliness or social isolation.

• The Age UK Essex Sitting/Companion Service provides essential respite for carers, enabling them to have some valuable time for themselves

Whilst this has been a tremendous honour, I would like to step up and further support Age UK Essex with financing these services. With your kind and generous donations, we can continue providing essential services that the most vulnerable members of our society need and deserve.

This is a spectacular and treacherous  trek for a valuable charity and I aim to reach summit of Poon Hill at 3,210m – a range of majestic highest peaks in the areas of Annapurna South and Nilgiri South.

Please donate generously and together we can achieve my target of raising minimum of £3,000.00