FOR the past few years Sidcup Rotary Club has organised a Challenge, and raised substantial sums for Lifestraws in 2006 and Demelza in 2007.
This year it was decided that the Challenge should support the Kings College Hospital Paediatric Liver Unit’s Starfish appeal, following a talk to the club by Wendy Johnson, whose son Joshua had been treated in the Unit.
The event, generously sponsored by Howe Maxted Group, Insurance Brokers and Financial Advisers took place on 20th September 2008.
The Challenge was to walk a 16 mile route round Bewl Water near Tunbridge Wells in Kent.
There was a 9 mile route for the less challenged. Blessed by a wonderful sunny day, thirty two walkers duly set off from the Bull Inn, Three Leg Cross at 8.30am.
Wendy and Joshua walked the nine mile course, Joshua’s participation being living evidence of the work of the appeal supported by the Challenge. Everyone completed the course, although some managed to get slightly lost, and may have walked further than planned.
At the finish all were rewarded with a drink and meal at the Bull Inn provided by Howe Maxted Group.
A number of members of Sidcup Rotary Club who could not walk on 20th September, including President Roy Barlow, met the Challenge on other days thus extending the fundraising efforts.
On Tuesday 17th March 2009 Sidcup Rotary Club’s Vice President Brenda Hitchcock and other members of the Sidcup Rotary Cub and representatives of Howe Maxted Group were treated to a tour of the new Rays of Sunshine ward before presentation of a cheque for the £5000 raised by the Challenge by Joshua Johnson to Professor Anil Dhawan.
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