Whizz-Kidz Neon Nightwalk

On Friday I am going to London with a few of my colleagues to complete the Whizz-Kidz Neon nightwalk, a 10 mile walk past all of the famous landmarks through the night to raise money for our company's corporate partner. 

Here's us from last year :)

Whizz-Kidz provide disabled children with electric wheelchairs and other mobility equipment to ensure that they can live as close to normal lives as possible. It gives kids the chance to be kids, what is better than that? They also run ambassador and wheelchair clubs where wheelchair users can get together to have fun. Whizz-Kidz also actively campaign for adequate wheelchair access to public buildings, and this is really important because who says disabled children shouldn't have the same rights to access as everyone else??????

Whizz-Kidz help children by making their lives easier, improving their confidence, accessibility and life skills. This is truly an amazing charity. We invited an ambassador along to our annual conference in January and he reduced grown men to tears. He was an inspiration.

I'm looking forward to the walk so much more this year for so many reasons:

1) we had to rush home last year as we had a coach booked and we didn't actually get to finish the walk and celebrate. We had to abandon walk at The Mall to cab it to the train station, only for our bus to be an hour delayed and we could have completed the walk after all!

2) because we had to rush last year we didn't particularly get to take in the sights as we were literally zooming by. We also didn't get a chance to go into any pubs;)

3) my fitness levels are through the roof compared to last year after 8 months of running (yes I can't believe I have kept it up for this long either)

4) any opportunity to raise ££££ for Whizz-Kidz is good by me

5) this is likely to be our last year supporting Whizz-Kidz as we give our colleagues a vote every 2 years. To date we have raised about £32,000 for this amazing charity and for a company with only 270 employees this is a pretty impressive amount. We really want to go out on a high and £35k would be the icing on the cake. 

I am truly sad to be moving away from this charity soon, and I hope to continue fundraising for them in the future. Over the last 2 years we have done countless branch golf days, skydives, raffles, casino nights, sports days, half marathons, you name it we have done it. We even got all of our management Board to 'go back to the floor' and work in branches for the day, making tea, sweeping floors and more. And trust me there's nothing better than seeing your old MD sweeping the floor ;)

Dans x