Ridgeway Walk Completed!

Congratulations to our Ridgeway Walkers! All 3 teams successfully completed their challenge on Sunday morning after a marathon length trek along the ancient Ridgeway. Chicks and the Beanstalk from Wakefield House crossed the finish line after ten hours, with the other two teams taking eleven and eleven and half hours respectively.

We'll feature their travellers' tales as soon as they've recovered sufficiently from their trek to tell us all about it. In the meantime, here are some photos of Borehamwood's The Good the Bad, The Ugly and Mark (first 4 photos), then two of  Chicks and the Beanstalk.

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Jumping For Ava

We have an update from Newcastle House about Martin Cooke's fundraiser day held at the end of March for his niece Ava Bainbridge.You may have seen her story on The One Show recently.

Ava contracted meningococcal  septicaemia (a form of meningitis) at the age of 13 months and the family were advised it would be 50:50 she would survive. She did,  however, she lost 75% of one foot and 50% of another.

So Martin arranged for a fun family day at The Springwell Inn at Wrekenton, near Gateshead complete with a bouncy castle, raffles and bungee jumping! Despite the horribly dark and cold day, around 50 people attended, including 15 bungee jumpers. So far Martin has raised £2,000 to help buy some special prosthetic feet for Ava.

The short slideshow below shows Ava and also gives a flavour of what happened on the day...

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