The Free Musketeers

Nick Merry is raising money for Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People

Participants: Melissa Cooper, Laura Kaye

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DMU Escape and Evade · 16 March 2012

As the East Midlands’ only hospice for children and young people, we brighten the short lives of babies, children and young people who come to Rainbows. We want them to have fun and make special memories. We are also here to support their loved ones through the most difficult times of their lives.

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Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

On Friday 16th March at 10am, Myself and my team left Leicester with nothing more then a bottle of water and a small pack of buiscuits, our challenge, to get as far away from Leicester as possible whilst undergoing challenges in various cities before returning back to Leicester all withing 36 hours. Heres how we got on. 

From Leicester, we managed to get on a National Express coach to Nottingham, then from their the coach people at Nottigham got us on a coach to Manchester, then a very late train to Liverpool, where we spent the night walking the streets in the rain, finally finding a hotel run by the MOST amazing people, who let us stay in their lobby with free hot drinks and cooked us a pizza! the nicest people ive ever met, thank you so much!

So, from there at 5.30 in the morning with minimal sleep, we headed back for the train station, where we managed to reach Birmingham, then onto Coventry, Northampton and finally London town all on trains. 

We did all this, whilst completing our range of challenges in the cities. So many stories and so many amazing people, but I have to give mention too one in particular.

Outside Birmingham train station, we got chatting to a homeless man selling the Big Issue. As we had to leave to get a train, he stopped us and pulled out a big handfull of change, pretty much everything he had. He took out a few pound coins, before dropping the rest of the handful into our bucket. THE MOST heart warming thing I have EVER whitnessed in my life. So amazing. 

So please dig deep and donate now, every little helps and it would be so amazing if you could help out! Thanks guys! 

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£200.00
+ £13.13 Gift Aid
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