The Rotary Club of Winslow has pledged to raise £32,000 towards the Puzzle Centre's new Outreach Project. The Puzzle Centre is a specialist nursery based near Winslow providing a unique facility for pre-school aged children with autism.

Puzzle wants to establish an Outreach Service to extend the reach and impact of their early intervention model to children and families at home or at school, working with children up to 11 years of age.

I am going to trek to the most iconic base camp of all, at the foot of the greatest mountain in the world, Mount Everest (8848m). This is one of the world's classic treks of 84 miles to the base camp and back, starting on April 2nd for 16 days and it gives me 2 days camping at altitude over 18,000 feet.

Your sponsorship is greatly appreciated by me and will go to a very worthwhile project.