I'm taking on the Breaking the Barrier stamina challenge for Lifeworks during Learning Disability Awareness Week 2020. Please sponsor me to help support people with learning disabilities to remain active and participating in regular exercise during lockdown and beyond!

ALL the wonderful outdoor sport providers who were going to be helping us deliver Breaking the Barrier 2020; Lex Leisure, Torquay United, Discovery Surf School, the Royal Dart Yacht Club, Roc Active and Dart Sailability have ALL agreed to postpone till 2021 - which is just so very kind of them. 

The young volunteers who joined us last year as Young Sports Enablers have been cut short in their plans for 2020. I want to make sure that ALL the young people we support have something they can get involved with now - the Breaking the Barrier Challenge on the 20 June and something to look forward to  - Breaking the Barrier 2021 - Surfing, sailing and cycling  all involving Young Sports Enablers  -  whats not to love. 

Whilst in Lockdown I have been trying to stay active but has been a bit up and down  - I am an Insulin Dependent Diabetic  - and for the first time since being a newly diagnosed teenager I feel like I'm wearing a really big label right now. The young people I have the good fortune to work with talk about labels too. Exercising for two hours will be a challenge in terms of blood sugar as well as stamina for sure but its giving me a chance to take the label off - THANK YOU.