Thursday 3 July 2014

Over the last 12 months we have all taken part in and organised several fund raising events. Most of us have never had to do any of this before and initially it sounds easy when you say lets raise some money. However we all quickly found out that it is in fact a difficult thing to do. We came up with loads of ideas for events but then when you look at what it all entails it soon became apparent that it takes a lot of time and planning. We emailed and rang so many places and people to see if they could help us. A lot said they would love to but they were already working with other charities. At times it made you feel like giving up but then we would look at pictures of Carrie and Charlie and realise we had to go on. We also had responses from people who were more than happy to help us. It made us feel so proud that strangers wanted to help Charlie. Over the last year we have met and been in touch with so many amazing generous people, people who have donated things for us to raffle, a garage that agreed to fix our car for free so it could be the support car for our sponsored walk, survival gear for our walkers, free transport and so much more. It still amazes me when I look at what people have given that there are such nice people out there, it restores your faith in mankind.

When it was announced what our first big fund raising event was going to be, A non stop sponsored walk from Leeds to Nottingham, I thought I would just be the support driver. Little did I know that over the weeks my mind would decide that I was going to do the walk. I enjoy walking but the thought of walking 66 miles was hard to imagine. I think what kept us all going and determined that we would do it was the thought of the fight Charlie gave to survive. If he could put up such a fight surely we could walk 66 miles.

We are continuing to arrange fund raising events and are lucky to have had some great people who have agreed to take part in events to raise money for us. Now we have become a known charity in Leeds more people are trying and willing to try and help us.

We really have met some amazing and generous people and we hope to continue to meet more. The more people who know about us and want to help us the sooner we will have Charlies Centre up and running.

Charlie has inspired a lot of people to make a change to bereavement services and im sure he is watching over us all cheering us on.



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