Update and thank you!

Thank you so much to everyone who has donated! I am very grateful for how generous you have all been, and now feel that running around a very cold windy lake on Christmas Eve was worth it - and the painful legs are now the smallest part of that memory. It really helped me to keep going, thinking of how much money I had raised.

Thanks in particular to Campbell Lutyens, who have matched the donations through their Charity Committee, contributing £2752 to my fundraising efforts. Very grateful, thank you!

A message and an update from The Juniper Trust

For your page ... I’m also really pleased to share exactly where the money is going. £3,000 of the funds raised will support the first phase of a new planting site in Bhussinga, at 2,500m on the slopes of Pikey Peak in the lower Khumbu region of Everest. This phase will see 5,000 trees planted — including 1,000 pine, 1,000 peach, 1,000 apricot, 500 walnut and 1,500 bamboo.

The fruit and nut trees will generate long-term income for families, while pine and bamboo stabilise slopes, restore soils, enhance biodiversity and capture carbon. Designed as a mixed-species, high-altitude agroforestry system, the 5,000 trees combine income generation with durable, long-term carbon storage and greater ecosystem resilience — strengthening both livelihoods and the landscape.

The remaining £3,000 will be invested in health and education projects, supporting the schools that the Juniper Trust rebuilt after the earthquake. These are very poor rural schools, and the needs are basic but important. £2,000 will provide 10 computers to improve digital access for students, and £1,000 will fund health improvements, including upgrades to plumbing, toilets and washing facilities.

This £6,000 donation will make a real and lasting difference — supporting both the new tree planting project and the children in these communities. If you’d like to follow the progress of these projects, you can visit the Nepal Evergreen and Juniper Trust websites.

Thank you once again for helping both our planet and the children of Nepal.