In October, Lorna Sim and LASplanning proudly took on the Maggie’s Edinburgh ‘10,000 Steps a Day’ Challenge for Maggie’s Centres, in memory of Lorna’s Mum.
The goal was to reach the very respectable fundraising target of £200.
…after a lot of hard work by Lorna and her family, not only did they successfully achieve their 10,000 steps a day, they also smashed their fundraising target. At the time of writing this, Lorna has raised over £5,300 – fantastic.
I suppose we should also mention that Lorna took an incredible 354,987 steps throughout October – every blister was worth it!
Of course Lorna and LASplanning is very grateful to the support they received from our network.
About Maggie’s
Maggie’s offers the best possible support for free to anyone with cancer. Anyone can visit a centre or join the online community. They help people take back control when cancer turns life upside down, by helping to provide professional support for anything from treatment side effects to money worries. Family and friends can visit Maggie’s too.
Maggie’s story: A mother of two children sits with her husband as the consultant tells her that her cancer can’t be cured. They are moved to a strip-lit, windowless corridor of the hospital to process this devastating news. This was Maggie Keswick-Jencks at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh in 1993. She and her husband Charles discussed the need for somewhere ‘better’ to go, outside of the clinical environment, but still nearby. The very first Maggie’s opened in Edinburgh in 1996 and there are now 23 centres in the UK and three overseas.
You can find out more about Maggie’s Edinburgh here.
