Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

As you probably all know, Nacoa mean everything to me, the support they have given to me since finding them, the friends I've made, and I'm ready for a new challenge to help children feel less alone! 

I will be walking 1 million steps between 1st Oct 2019 and 1st Jan 2020, and am so pleased to say I'm doing this with a team of 10 other ladies around the country, so we hope to do 10 million steps for this amazing charity supporting children of alcoholics! 

My dad has battled with alcohol his whole life and still fights everyday but I’m doing well, thanks to Nacoa, and their amazing support to all Children of alcoholics. I can live my life in the present, and I hope to help children and adults affected so that they can too. 

Coa’s have no-one to turn to, and although 1 in 5 children are affected, they all do it alone, as it remains an unspoken secret, very often until the parent dies, it did for me......

Nacoa (The National Association for Children of Alcoholics) is a Bristol based charity founded in 1990 to provide help and support for everyone affected by a parent’s drinking. They believe that every child has the right to a happy childhood and to live a creative and meaningful life but when drink is the family secret they are more likely to experience family violence, neglect and other problems in their own homes.

There is no lower or upper age limit to be affected by your parent's drinking and sometimes the problems only become apparent in adulthood. You can be affected regardless of whether you are still living with them, whether they are still drinking or even if they are still alive or not.

You can be a child of an alcoholic at 1 or 101. Whatever your age, it doesn't change the fact that your parent, step-parent or carer is, or has been, dependent on alcohol, along with the problems this brings.

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