Lola's 10 Challenges To Mark 10 Years
Lola Matthews is raising money for Anthony Nolan
In memory of Michael Matthews (my lovely dad)
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September 2024 marks 10 years since we lost my amazing dad. If you’ve experienced this kind of loss, you’ll know it brings a desire to seize every moment and make life count. So, from June 2024 to the end of October 2025, I’m taking on 10 wild and wonderful challenges to raise 10k for Anthony Nolan charity.
Here’s what I’m up to:
1. ✅ 10k Run 🏃♂️(5th August 2024)
2. ✅ Half Marathon (October 13th)
3. ✅ Full Marathon (London 2025)
4. 🏔️ Ten Peaks (4/10) - subject to changes:
- ✅ Scafell Pike (Lake District): Ticked this one off early! (June 15th)
- ✅ Pen Y Fan (Wales)
- ✅ Snowdon (Wales)
- ✅ Waun Fach via Dragons Back (Wales) (28th September 2024)
5. 10 Hours Volunteering for Anthony Nolan!
6. 10 Months No Alcohol
7. Try 10 New Things: Open to suggestions?
8. 10 Acts of Kindness: Pay it forward, one nicety at a time.
✅ 1/10 - Volunteering at The Leasing World Gold Awards, helping to raise 8k for Wings for Life charity
✅ 2/10 - Volunteering at the Cord Club - helping to raise donations for Wings for Life
✅ 3/10 Donated clothes to local charity shop
✅ 4/10 Gifted flowers to my lovely mum 💐
9. 100 Mile Cycle in 2 days
10. ✅ 10 Hour Walk around London - September 22nd
If you want to join, suggest ideas, or just laugh at my expense - You can follow my journey on...
A little about the wonderful work of Anthony Nolan below - these guys provided my dad with his best chance of survival, for which I am eternally grateful. Without emergency support lifesaving transplants could never make it to the patients.
Anthony Nolan’s world-leading stem cell register, groundbreaking cell and gene therapy research and expertise in stem cell transplants means they currently help four patients a day in need of a transplant, giving more people another chance to live. But we know we can, and must, do more. Driven by patients, backed by stem cell donors, powered by science, and with your support, they won’t stop until they’ve uncovered the lifesaving potential of the cells inside us all, and every patient can survive and thrive.
Thank you <3