Running 300km to Fight Addiction – Paris to Haywards Heath for Turning Point

Jordan Stokeley is raising money for Turning Point

Running 300km to Fight Addiction – Paris to Haywards Heath for Turning Point · 1 September 2025

We’re a leading national social enterprise, delivering health and social care support in substance use, mental health, sexual health and learning disability. With over 60 years’ experience, we support people with a range of complex challenges to lead a healthy, happier life.

Story

We’re running over 300km from Paris to Haywards Heath.

Three of us. Six days. 50km a day.

No hotels. No support crew. No shortcuts.

We’re carrying all our gear and sleeping in tents each night — a fully self-supported mission to raise awareness for addiction and support the life-saving work Turning Point does across the UK.

This is about more than the miles.

We’re doing this to reflect the emotional weight people struggling with addiction carry every single day. That silent burden. That shame. That isolation.

Addiction affects people from all walks of life. It doesn’t discriminate. But neither does hope — and that’s what Turning Point offers: real support, real recovery, and a chance to rebuild.

If our journey helps even one person feel seen, or strong enough to ask for help, then every blister, every sleepless night, every brutal kilometre will have been worth it.

Please support us if you can — and let’s break the silence around addiction.

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Thank you.

Donation summary

Total
£398.53
+ £92.50 Gift Aid
Online
£398.53
Offline
£0.00

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