A Brokenshire Challenge (ABC)
Husband and wife team swimming the Straits in aid of charity
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The latest fundraising event which will be raising funds for Clubhouse Gibraltar as well as 2 other charities, comes from Matthew and Chloe Brokenshire, a husband and wife team, who are swimming the Straits of Gibraltar between the 8th and 14th April 2017 (depending on the weather conditions). They describe it as ABC – A Brokenshire Challenge.
Their aim is to raise funds money for 3 great charities: Combat Stress, STEP UK (Chloe's charity in Iraq) and Clubhouse Gibraltar (a Mental health charity in Gibraltar).

Why Gibraltar?

“Gibraltar has always held a fascination to us! Perhaps it is the fact that neither my wife nor I had visited before? Perhaps it was the deep routed connection to the Royal Marine family? Perhaps it was the fact that my Base was called ‘FOB Gibraltar’ on my
first tour of duty in Afghanistan? Whatever the reasons, this year we have been able
to prioritise a visit and complete a challenge at the same time! Chloe (my wife) and I are keen swimmers and each have completed some challenges in the past including the English Channel (me) and a Fowey to Plymouth family relay. This time we have set our hearts on swimming together across the Straits of Gibraltar. We hope to raise some money for the extremely worthwhile charities of Combat Stress, ClubHouse Gibraltar and STEP UK. The first two charities focus on mental health issues which are pertinent to me after my time spent in the Royal Marines and the last charity works with vulnerable children in North Iraq where we lived for a year and is close to both our hearts.
Swimming the 16-20km across the Straits together will pose a number of challenges….and we hope we are still speaking civilly by the time we reach Africa!! We hope to get it cracked in 6 hours but it does depend a lot on the weather and how our training goes over the next few weeks : ). I think we could be the first husband and wife team swimming across the straits.”

Matthew and Chloe Brokenshire

For more information please contact Chloe at: ukadmin@step-uk.org

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