More newsworthy information two weeks prior to departure!

Another article, this time in The Wealden Ad! Thank you VERY much to the lovely Lisa at the magazine who has kindly popped my trip and climb mentioning those AMAZING sponsors of mine in the 'News of the Weald' section. Check it out!

That's pretty coooool!

Something even cooler?

I wrote to Staplehurst Carnival and Fete Committee requesting/wondering-if-I-could-get some funding for the voluntary parts of my trip and the Kilimanjaro climb. They have been EXTREMELY generous and donated £200 towards the trip! Just incredible!!

Thank you so, SO much, I really cannot express enough gratitude.

Lastly, after raising just under £100 for the NSPCC raffle I drew the lucky winners out of a hat last Friday! All the winners have been contacted and received their prizes. Congrats to Stuart, the winner of the 2 free powerkite lessons donated generously by The Kitesurf Centre at Camber Sands, who sounded extremely pleased with his luck!
Enjoy!

Keep watching this space, the adventure is only 2 weeks away!

In the news!

Who would've thought that a small village (if you can call Knoxbridge that) girl like myself would be in the news? Definitely not me! But I am and that's AWESOME!

That's me in the Maidstone KM (feel free to ignore the photo and remember I am actually 22 not super wrinkly). I'm not sure they've really got the gist of why I'm going to Malawi quite right BUT it's amazing I'm even in the paper and they mentioned my climb for the NSPCC (check out that fetching t-shirt!). 

I've also been told an article will be in the Wealden Ad under "News of the Weald" section on 27th September so look out for that! AND I've been offered funding and an article in the Village Mag in Staplehurst; INCREDIBLE!  A massive, MASSIVE thank you to Nick L at the KM, Lisa at the Wealden Ad and Elaine Downton in Staplehurst for helping me out.

I leave for Blantyre on October 13th, only a month away, so keep on this blog for updates nearer the time!

BIG LOVE going to everyone whose helped me out thus far in my travels (and that's a lot; you are all absolute stars and I could not have done it without you.