Hi everyone!

Meet Alba, she's 8 and since March 2021 has been on a mission to raise awareness for mental health and charities supporting it. If you know anything of Alba you'll know her reasons but for those that don't, she's doing it for her daddy and those just like him. You see from 3 months old Alba was visiting him in psychiatric hospitals whilst he did all he could to get well enough to be home. They did bedtimes via facetime, supervised visits and Christmas in family rooms on the wards of big hospitals. However, that is her hero. And she wants to do all she can to change the way people see and talk about mental health.

She's walked 100s of miles, 100s of 1000s of steps, she's walked from Castleford to Scarborough and so much in such a short amount of time raising so much awareness and money for lots of charities.

This year she wants to complete the England Coast Path! She walked from Redcar down to Spurn Point over a week in September for her 10th fundraiser. When looking at what she could do this year she came across the rest of the English coastal paths and that is where the planning began.

In January she walked from Amble to Redcar. February saw her walk from Amble to Berwick but she contracted scarlet fever before reaching the border or Holy Island so we'll be back to do a day hike shortly. In March she covered Withernsea to Hunstanton over 13 days which she finished just over a week ago.

On the 15th of April she'll be heading off again for 13 days starting in Hunstanton and making her way down to Harwich possibly Clacton-on-Sea.

She'll be rocking her yellow croc wellies, bright odd socks and huge smile. You may spot her running, dancing, singing, making sandcastles and will happily wave and chat to anyone on route.

You can read all about her on the below page and website, give her a follow to follow her journey.

Facebook: Albasadventures

Website: www.albasadventures.co.uk

Alba's stats!

Age 5 she created the Orchard Head Covid-19 rock snake, got funding and it now lives in our local park

💚£3971.75 raised for Samaritans walking the 310,000 steps in March. She walked over 820,000 steps, raised thee most amount of money from everyone who took park. The money raised=794 phone calls.

🖤£1020 raised for Andys Man Club walking 200 miles in May. She walked 243.9 miles!

💛 £155 raised for YoungMinds collecting 100 bags in a week. She collected 101 bags of rubbish!

🧡 £695.75 raised for The CALMzone walking 600,000 steps in a month. She walked 867,362 steps!!

💙£70 raised for MINT - Men In Need Together walking 35 miles in 3 days. She walked 38 miles!

💜 £546.25 raised for IDAS walking 1 million steps in November. She walked 1,026,402 steps!

💛£1,165.25 raised for Place2Be walking 500,000 steps in February 2022. She walked 660,735 steps

💙Castleford-Scarborough for Papyrus. £5,321.18 RAISED

💜80 Miles before she turned 8 for SHOUT. £1117

💙 Redcar-Spurn Point for Rethink mental illness. £4232.75 RAISED

💙 England Coast Path January and February for Leeds Mind. £5,199.20 RAISED

💙 England Coast Path March for Hull and East Yorkshire Mind. £2,960.58 RAISED