Ann-Marie Wilson
Ann-Marie & Angie's Marathon Effort!
Fundraising for North London Hospice
Story
Angie Cavallari & I have known each other for 30 years. She was also my companion for the whole #28TooManyWheelchairMarathon in 2018.
Now we've achieved our biggest challenge ever.... a 26 mile walking marathon on 3 October - achieved in 8.5 hours of the allowed 23 hrs & 59 mins for prized London Marathon medals!
As a patient at North London Hospice, I'm doing this in memory of my many hospice friends who have gone before me, whilst I still can.
As a director of a charity myself, I know that 2020 was a really tough year for charities. As such, I wanted to complete a London Marathon on foot which I never thought would be able to do (hence the wheelchair marathon I completed in 2018). I was in training 4 x a week from 21st May over 19 weeks , after 8 months of static bike cycling. 5 stars came & walked with me to help me train; 6 joined us in London on the day, & we love the 130+ who have sponsored Angie & I in our crazy pursuit!
Donating via JustGiving is simple, fast & secure. Your details are safe as they'll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they'll send your money directly to the North London Hospice, so it's the most efficient way to donate - saving time & costs for the charity.
This is what your donation can do for the patients at the hospice:
- £15 will fund a bed in our inpatient unit for one hour, providing specialist and patient-focused care.
- £20 will pay for a TENS machine providing drug free pain relief to a person.
- £40 will pay for nutritious, home-cooked meals for patients and carers at our Health and Wellbeing Centre.
- £50 will pay for a week’s worth of equipment for a hospice nurse to provide practical care to people, wherever they call home.
- £90 will pay for a day’s worth of travel for our community teams visiting patients.
- £125 will sponsor a nurse for a day on our inpatient unit, helping them to support dozens of people.
- £265 will fund our whole inpatient unit for one hour, ensuring we can care for up to 18 people.
- £500 will fund our education service for one day, so we can train others to provide expert end of life care.
- £965 will fund a syringe driver, ensuring our nurses can provide constant pain-relief to a person."
- £5000 will fund the inpatient unit for 24 hours, ensuring care for over 14 people
- £5035 will provide 19 hours of care for 18 patients in the inpatient unit
- It costs £6354 to provide 24 hours of care to the 18 people in the inpatient unit.
- £6619 provides 25 hours of care for 18 people in the in patient unit or 74 days of travel costs for teams to see community based patients.
- £7000 funds the inpatient unit for a staggering 26.5 hours for 18 people.
Thanks so very much :) We will keep you updated, and see the updates, each with photos for each donation.
Ann-Marie & Angie xx