This walk is to raise the £155 to get to the £1,000 mark after a year of fundraising. Last year I raised £475 in a Twitter musical marathon and £370 in a sponsored walk along the Thames, making £845 in total.

It's been a rewarding process, but of course the world situation means that the problems tackled by the charity are continuing to get worse. An Oxfam report this July revealed that around 11 people a minute are dying from malnutrition and hunger, compared to the 7 people per minute who are dying from Covid. 

I am continuing to raise money for Sanku - Project Healthy Children, because it has devised a brilliant technology to help as many children and mothers in developing countries as possible. If you provide the right nutrients early in life, you can prevent death from easily curable diseases, blindness, intellectual impairment and maternal death during childbirth. The 'dosifier' - invented by Sanku's CEO Felix Brooks-Church - is a device that can be fitted to a small village mill to add essential vitamins to flour. It has won a 'Time' best invention of the year award, while Brooks-Church himself has won a Rolex Award for Enterprise as well as substantial backing from Mackenzie Scott in recognition of what he has achieving.

Thank you again to those of you who have already been generous and supportive - it's made a big difference. Happy New Year.