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I am attempting the Serpentine One Mile Swim challenge later this month to raise money for Horatio's Garden - a national charity that creates and nurtures beautiful gardens in NHS spinal injury centres to support everyone affected by spinal injury

The charity is named after Horatio Chapple, a 17 year old killed by a Polar Bear while on expedition to Svalbard. Although I didn't know him personally, a few friends did. His ambition had been to become a doctor and while volunteering at Salisbury spinal centre, he recognised that there was no 'outside world' available to spinal injury patients. 

Borne out of this original idea, his mother set up the charity in his legacy.

Any donation would be hugely appreciated and while I don't expect to be particularly fast, I am simply hoping to finish the distance, not swallow too much water and avoid the swans!

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