We have got up at unearthly hours of the morning to go and do car boots sales, stayed awake for 2 days to complete a 66 mile walk, baked mountains of cupcakes to sell at fairs and put in endless hours of work promoting our cause.
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| Two of our fund raisers who raised £130 running the Leeds 10K |
Everything we do we do with the focus of Charlie in our mind and the thought that no other family should go through what we all went through. We know we can never stop babies and children dying but we can try and stop there being no or little support out there for people to access. If we had had people to talk to and to share our loss with then we might have found the journey through grief a little easier.
Each time we have completed a fund raising event and have added up how much we have raised it always astounds us how generous people can be.
Over the last eight weeks we have been one of the three charities chosen by our local Asda store for their green coin collection. They run a charity scheme that runs over 8 weeks and shoppers are given green tokens. They choose which charity container to put it in and at the end of 8 weeks they are weighed. The charity with the heaviest load wins the cheque for £200. The people of Leeds have done us proud.
This week I got the call to say that our charity was the outright winner of the £200.
I felt like a child at Christmas. I was sat in my car when I got the call and if anyone was watching they would have thought I had gone a little crazy, I was actually doing a victory dance,(embarrassing I know ).
Not only have we now increased our total funds raised we have also raised the profile of our charity so much. There are now so many more people out there who know our name and what we are trying to achieve.
Our dream of opening Charlies-Angel-Centre is getting closer and more real.
The memory of Charlie will live on for many years to come.
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