First lockdown meant too much food and drink and not enough exercise. Well not this time!

Lets try to reverse the curse and raise some money the Stars Appeal at the same time!

So each member of the team will cover 5K per day on foot, could be walk, jog, run, skip, hop... you get the idea. And will do so for the duration of Lockdown.

We get exercise, Stars Appeal gets some great support and UK COVID Lockdown 2.0 isn't quite so bad!

Why Have We Chosen The Star Appeal

In 2018 our founders Elin and Richard became the proud parents of Twin boys Noah and Hugo and like most twin pregnancies they arrived slightly early at 34 weeks.

The early arrival and the delivery together brought some issues which lead to the boys being placed in the neonatal intensive care unit for two weeks, the early arrival not only means that not only are you not quite prepared at home, your not quite prepared mentally for the fundamental change whats just happened.

The arrival in this case was not quite the screaming baby then handed to the waiting parents as you see in films but silence, Elin in an operating theatre, Richard outside in a grey corridor and two boys wheeled out in silence in incubator boxes and doctors and nurses rushing them to intensive care.

The experience within the NICU was one of the most stressful but also one of the most eye opening, the care and dedication the doctors and nurses in particular give is indescribable.

As anyone can imagine the need and basic human instinct to want to be near your newborn child is overwhelming and without the help of the stars appeal this simply wouldn't have been possible to the extent we were able to. The Stars appeal built and continue fund a dedicated area for families and parents attached next to the NICU whereby you have in many ways your own apartment where you can sleep for a few hours, have a shower and make some food. Without the support of The Stars Appeal the whole experience would have been completely different and would have had a detrimental effect on both mother, father and babies. We will be eternally grateful for the support of both the NICU and The Stars Appeal for their assistance and hope in some way we can assist them to continue to make a difference to the lives of the children and families they serve.

So lets do this, combined a challenge to cover over 600km for 4 people over 30 days all for 1 great cause!