21/07/2021
Hey everyone,
Apologies for the out of the blue post. For those that started following the challenge back in 2019, you’ll know that due to COVID restrictions in early 2020 and Sam having to shield, we postponed this challenge.
Unfortunately Oli lost his battle with this awful disease in August last year. We are thankful that through everyone’s generosity, we were able to donate £1,300 to the family fund, prior to Oli you adding away. Thank you everyone that supported us!
The pressing issue is that we still have the challenge to complete. With this in mind we have now set a date of 21st August this year, a month today!
Unfortunately due to work commitments and a home move Cara has had to drop out, however one of our paddle buddies Hannah from East of England Paddlesports has stepped into Cara’s place.
In an effort to keep things more local we have changed the route details slightly, now starting in Bishops Stortford at 2pm on Saturday 21st August and aiming to be finished in Paddington basin for 2pm on the 22nd. We will still be paddling continuously for 24 hours.
We have a new Justgiving page set up where we have split the charities being supported between MND Association my chosen charity in memory of Oli and Mid and North East Essex Mind which is Hannah’s chosen charity.
For those wishing to support either cause you can here: https://www.justgiving.com/team/SUPCHALLENGE24EOEP
However if nothing else, we appreciate all your words of encouragement and support to get this challenge done!
We will be setting up a live tracking app, so you can track our progress as we go. We’ll update details nearer to the time.
Anyways for now thank you all for the support, we’ll keep you updated over the coming weeks
Nick, Sam and Hannah (SUPChallenge24)
