Participants: Anette Janes, Ben Kirkham, Carl Wright, Catherine Betts, Dean Dodson, Hannah Wainman, Melissa Slack, Michelle Renforth, Naomi Wright, Olaf Hansen, Paula Nichols, Stuart Reynolds , Ali Cox, Kathryn Pledger, Matt Evans, Sebrina Judge, Katie Barratt, Helen Law, Emma Hopkinson, Richard Huthwaite, Susan Baker, Mel Newman

Strava: https://www.strava.com/clubs/935550/

To honour Jim's memory as a collective at Vodafone we raised some money for the Frank Bruno foundation and seeing this pass £1000 really does show what Jim meant to a lot of people. Jim was part of the Mental Health First Aid team at Vodafone and this will have made him super proud!

To further honour him I spoke with Faith (Jim's Mother) about an idea of us doing a fitness challenge that we (Mental Health First Aiders) had been talking about but, we have to do it in true Jim style and try to pull as many people together as possible. Jim wanted people to feel good about exercise and knew the effect it could have on you. He cheered you on whether doing 1 mile or 20 miles.

Then last week Hannah Wainman provided some further inspiration by covering 27.56 miles!!!! So, for the week beginning the 24th May we are going to do a Steps / Miles challenge. You can choose to do this walking, running, biking, swimming or even roller blading, it's your choice. The aim is to try and cover 26.2 miles for the week or 2.62 miles / 5533ish steps a day, in honour that Jim had got into the London Marathon this year.

I asked Faith where she would like any money raised donating to, she gave me details for Sleaford Laffletics, who provide sport and social activities for disabled people in Sleaford and surrounding areas. I've been in touch with Thelma at Lafflectics and she was happy for me to set this page up, we can then organise for the donations to be transferred to them.

Join the Strava team here: https://www.strava.com/clubs/getfitforjimhopkins to help track all our progress next week but, please capture selfies, videos, and messages. It will be great to collate these memories. Please feel free to get involved regardless of whether you're raising money.