Rick's 2020 Mount Kilimanjaro Challenge for The Mental Health Foundation
Welcome to my big challenge!
Hello!
I am Rick Leach,
a presently quite unfit 58-year old Grandad, full time Civil Servant and part
time writer and Arts Editor for the Getintothis music site.
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I’ve decided to undertake a quite frankly
nerve-jangling attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro - all 19,341 feet of it - to
support and raise funds for the Mental Health Foundation charity.
It’s a massive yet worthwhile undertaking and
one that will see me having to become fitter and healthier and radically
changing my lifestyle beforehand - you may have seen some celebrities recently
climbing it as part of Comic Relief.
Mental
health affects so many of us and in so many ways and is something I feel passionately
about.
We all
need to raise awareness, break the stigma surrounding mental health and bring
about change and this is my small way to do something about it.
My attempt
is happening in October 2020 so I do have a bit of time however to get
prepared. I’ll be looking to raise a minimum in sponsorship of £4600 for the Mental Health Foundation and I’m asking
for your assistance to help me achieve that goal.
Every
little would help in reaching that first goal along the way towards a very
worthy cause and I’d be very grateful if you would consider making a
contribution.
I’ll also
be looking to set up a vast, varied and fun range of events to raise the main
sponsorship fund and please, if you have any ideas for anything that we can do,
however big or small in getting towards the main total, then please do let me
know!
This is my
first posting on my new blog so you can follow my progress and see how it’s all
going.
I’ve set
up this Virgin Money Giving page here where you can make a donation
and see how close I am in getting to the point of no return!
Thank you so much!
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About The Mental Health Foundation:
The Mental Health
Foundation is the UK’s charity for everyone’s mental health and are
celebrating their 70th anniversary in 2019. They put prevention is at
the heart of all that they do. By finding and addressing the sources of
mental health problems, their work enables people and communities to
thrive with good mental health.
They conduct
vital research to find the sources of mental ill-health, to develop
advice for better mental health based on the best available evidence and
ultimately prevent mental health problems from occurring.
They produce
authoritative reports and launch evidence-driven campaigns, which are
presented to policy-makers and key influencers, encouraging them to
fight stigma and bring about change.
They want to create a movement for
change and do this by giving a voice to as many people as possible,
including through engaging the population in Mental Health Awareness
Week which they host each year.
They innovate
through designing programmes and new solutions to prevent mental health
problems from occurring, transform the lives of those experiencing
distress, and improve everyone’s mental health across communities.
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