Jenny Halse
Team Lighting's Percy Pud 10k 2021 page
Fundraising for Action Medical Research
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We the family and friends of Elijah "Lightning" Halse are running the Percy Pud 10k again to raise money for children’s charity Action Medical Research, specifically the Elijah Halse tribute fund. This is the eighth year we have run the Percy Pud in Elijah's memory. Elijah's parents Jenny and James have been working with Action Medical Research on many fundraising projects but it's lovely to be back here where we started, especially after the 2020 event was cancelled.
We are linking this page to the Elijah's Star boys who set off to Row the Atlantic on Dec 12th - all money goes to Action Medical Research as usual. We are part of the land crew.
"Lightning" was born at 25 weeks and 3 days in March 2013. He lived in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Jessops Hospital
Sheffield. Despite making good initial progress, Elijah died aged 37 days having contracted NEC (necrotising enterocolitis). You can read more about him here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/elijahhalse
Elijah is buried at Wisewood Cemetery in the beautiful Loxley Valley
only a short distance from the start of the Percy Pud. It's a fitting
race to run for him. We run to remember that he lived. As the years go
by, the pain of losing him changes but never goes away. Through fund raising for Action Medical Research we hope to make a difference in the care for babies like Elijah in the future.
As we've got to know more about the amazing research Action Medical Research funds, we feel privileged to be able to support the charity in Elijah's memory.
Action Medical Research is the leading UK-wide charity saving and changing children’s lives through medical research. For 65 years we’ve helped pioneer ways to prevent disease and develop treatments benefiting millions of people. Our research has helped to beat polio in the UK, develop ultrasound, fight meningitis and prevent stillbirths. But we urgently need to develop more new treatments and cures for sick babies and children and we can’t do it without you.Join our fight for little lives.
