<p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;amp; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;amp;amp; color: #1c1c1c; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ok, this is my challenge of the year to raise much needed funds for Hope House Children&rsquo;s Hospice... AND I NEED YOUR HELP!!!!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On May 18</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I start a 200 mile walk spanning the whole length of Wales. I will be starting this mammoth trek in beautiful Conwy on the north coast and finish 10 days later on the beaches of Barry Island in the south.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: white;">Walking seems easy, I mean we all do it every day, but to walk 20 miles non-stop and further more do that for 10 straight days is going to be a HUGE challenge for me. It will be the support of you all and your donations that will keep me going, together with knowing that ALL the money raised will go direct to Hope House and all the children and families they support...</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: white;">Hope House Children's Hospices is an amazing charity and is based in Oswestry with their sister hospice 'Ty Gobaith' in Conwy and they cover the whole of North and Mid Wales, Shropshire and Cheshire. They&nbsp;offer respite and palliative care to&nbsp;terminally ill children and young people as well as supporting their families too.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;amp; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;amp;amp; color: #1c1c1c; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In addition to this Hope House offer bereavement and counselling support not only to the families who use the hospice but to anyone in the wider community who has lost a child more often than not in a traumatic circumstance.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;amp; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;amp;amp; color: #1c1c1c; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; background-color: white;">Its takes &pound;4 million a year to run their vital services and keep their two hospices open.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;amp; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;amp;amp; color: #1c1c1c; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: white;">Please support me and the truly amazing work that Hope House does by making a donation, no matter how small by:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: white;">1. Clicking the donate button above, or</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: white;">2. Texting WALK48&pound; + your amount (e.g WALK48&pound;5) TO 70070, or</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: white;">3. See me in person!!!&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: white;">Thank you very much!! :-)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.4pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Paul</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>