Leicestershire Action for Mental Health Project Celebration Event
Lamp's 5k Trip to the Moon Celebration Event - 20th July
Fundraising for Leicestershire Action for Mental Health Project (Lamp)
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Lamp (Leicestershire Action for Mental Health Project) launched its major Lamp 5k fundraising campaign for 2022 between 9-15 May 2022, as part of Mental Health Awareness Week.
With the Trip to the Moon challenge, Lamp encouraged people to take part in a 5k physical activity such as walking, running, cycling, skating or swimming, to collectively reach 384,400km, the distance from the Earth to the moon, and raise £1 for each km covered. Whilst also promoting the benefits of physical exercise on your mental health.
During the week we had a number of supporters running, walking, cycling and swimming to help us achieve our target adding their miles via our Strava 5k Club, Wellgiving site and donating £1 for every KM on our JustGiving Page. We are truly grateful for all those who got involved and helped us raise awareness and funds for Lamp.
During Mental Health Awareness week we achieved over 70,000KM, and although didn't reach our 'out of this world' target, we continued to promote our challenge in aid of mental health with the aim to getting to the moon by the 20th July.
The 20th July marks the anniversary of the first ever moon landing, Apollo 11, so it seems apt to tie in our campaign and target with this day.
We can proudly say we have achieved our target and in celebration we'd love to invite you to our Lamp 5k Moon Landing Event on 20th July at the National Space Centre (5:30pm - 8pm)
To help us achieve our fundraising target by 20th July, on top of our distance target, we're asking for a £20 donation for adults or £2 for Children to attend which includes entry to the space centre, educational talks around the moon landing, family fun stalls and activities and refreshments including food stalls. Families and children are welcome.
To register your attendance for the event, either donate via JustGiving and include how many will be attending in the comments, or email kirstendavies@lampdirect.org.uk to let us know you're attending!
We will look forward to celebrating with you :) Thank you for your all your support
