I’m moving 31 Miles for Nature to raise £150 for Greenpeace - can you sponsor me?
Our favourite places in nature are under threat from climate change, habitat loss and pollution. We need to act now to save them. That's why I've decided to move 31 Miles for Nature this October and raise £150 for Greenpeace.
With a fifty year history of defending nature, Greenpeace's mission is to create a greener, healthier, and more peaceful planet. Any donation you make could help power their campaigns to keep our oceans healthy, our forests standing, and fossil fuels in the ground.
Greenpeace never accepts money from companies or governments, so they depend on supporters, like us, to fund all of their campaigns.
Please sponsor me today and help me reach my £150 goal. Thank you!
My Activity Tracking
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My target 31 miles
My Achievements
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Raised First £10
Reached 100% of Fundraising Goal
Increased Fundraising Target
Reached 100% of Fitness Goal (31 Miles)
My Updates
Finally a cycle!
Sunday 26th Oct
It's a while since I've done any kind of distance on a bicycle - so, a real sense of achievement.
I've completed and surpassed my 31 mile challenge for October!
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Between the rain showers
Monday 20th Oct
But the rain cleared, my work was done, there was still daylight, so off I went. It's so easy in our village with so many alternative footpaths to take.
And of course, getting out there in the fresh air, amongst the trees, along the river and fields, does us so much good.
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Amongst the birds!
Wednesday 15th Oct
We dodged the showers and had some welcome sunshine, as well as seeing a rainbow with one foot in the marshes.
A beautiful day out.
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Back to water
Tuesday 14th Oct
Swimming in all that water reminded me of how it's been a bit of a theme these last couple of days.
Sunday night, my eco group, Sustainable Shepreth, and the Haslingfield and Harlton Eco group put on a film show and discussion - the Ants and the Grasshopper.
The main character, Anita, lives in a village in Malawi, where many months of the year they have barely any rainfall, and they scoop what little there is from dips in the sandy river bed. They somehow keep their crops alive so that they can live off these. Then, when the rain finally comes, the river is a great tumbling roar of red water.
Then, last night, I gave a talk about finding agency to deal with climate and nature change; encouraging people to think about what's important and possible for them, and what they could do in a way that gives them joy and keeps them well. One member of the audience said it's all about water: capturing it, re-using it, thinking about how we use it.
Swimming in that vast 25 metre pool of clear water, and having a hot shower afterwards, felt like a luxury, an indulgence, set against these two.
I hope the money I raise through my sponsored swimming, and walking, and cycling if I manage it, gets put to good use in the context of all of this.
(The picture I chose for this post is of the lavender at the Leisure Centre, wet from the fine and limited rain, that we have had today.)
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Big wide fields!
Sunday 12th Oct
It was good to see the wide open fields, and also that some of them had been planted with a similar mix of colourful crops that we've seen in our village. I believe this is part of a stewardship scheme to enhance biodiversity. The birds were obviously loving it!
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Another of my favourite places!
Thursday 9th Oct
Fond memories of seeing the avenue festooned in the Fantastical Forest draperies earlier in the year, courtesy of Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination.
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I swam a mile!
Tuesday 7th Oct
Lovely to be back in the water for a morning swim after missing a week due to a second cold in one month!
The Royston Leisure centre is getting an overhaul of its heating system to switch to renewable energy. They are doing a bit of expansion as well. It's really impressive how they are managing to keep the facilities mostly open during all of this.
Anyway, I feel invigorated and ready for the day.
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Maintaining the Shepreth Church Yard
Monday 6th Oct
We're also slowly creating a border of plants to also support the biodiversity there.
With today being a glorious sunny day and an unexpected spare hour or so, it was irresistible to go and join a friend there and do a bit of tidying up after the (relatively mild here) effects of Storm Amy!
(I just recorded my walk there and back, and not all the to-ing and fro-ing with my raking and gathering!)
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Woodland blessings
Monday 6th Oct
Jon and I went walking through one of the many pockets of woodland that we are blessed with in Shepreth. Looking for Y-shaped twigs and miscellaneous natural items for Robin's October projects and workshop.
I still felt physically weary from yesterday's working party by the river Shep, but much refreshed mentally!
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Nothing quite like a working party with Friends of the River Shep!
Saturday 4th Oct
We cleared lots of brambles (not the most fun bit!) and other over-hanging matter so as to give the river and her living beings more light.
I measured my steps and distance through a lot of the work, but not all of it. So I will have done more than the 2.28 miles added to my dashboard.
Feeling tired in a good way!
(The photo is of the mill stream, which flows into the river in Angle Lane where we were working.)
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Wildlife welcome in Byron's Square
Friday 3rd Oct
Why I'm walking for Nature
Saturday 13th Sep
Greenpeace has been one of the communities that I've been able to do this work through. I am supported and inspired by all the people within it and all that they are doing to create positive change.
Raising money through doing more of this seems like a great way to support Greenpeace's work.
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Thank you to my Sponsors
£31.80
Lesley Walls
£30
Michelle Cale
£15.90
Steven Swain
Good luck!
£15.90
Liz Neville
Good Luck with your journey - great cause.
£15.90
Elisabeth Spain
£10
Well done