Cate and Susi's LIFE walk: 100km Thames Path Challenge

Susi and Cate are fundraising for two charities that have supported us and people close to us recently:

St Luke's Hospice in Sheffield who supported Susi's family when Dave was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Being told he had only days or weeks to live Dave was determined to spend as much of it as he could with his family and friends. St Luke's provided emotional, practical, nursing and medical support to him, Susi and their teenage children. This helped him spend an amazing 6 months making memories and at the very end, helped the hospital-phobic Wilki to die in dignity in his own home.

After diagnosis Dave created a bucket list with a difference, by asking family and friends to do things he couldn't. One of the things on his list was to walk 100km. We have decided (foolishly perhaps) this meant in one day so we plan to complete the Thames Path Challenge in 24 hours or less.

Our other charity is:

Little Hearts Matter who have supported our colleague Claire Bennett, her husband Tom and baby Florence, from the point at their 20 week scan that showed Flo has Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. This has meant that in Flo's first 6 months she has had two major heart surgeries and has only made it home for a five days in that time although we're hoping that will soon change and this little family can finally be together. HLHS is a lifelong condition, the surgery will not "cure" Flo's heart but, with the support of Little Hearts Matter and her fabulous parents, she's looking forward to getting home soon.