Alba has been SO busy since March 2021 taking on lots of fundraisers

for mental health charities.  

In 2023 she has decided to take on the England Coast Path!

She very well may not complete it all in a year but lets see...

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The plan is to walk many multi day hikes tackling many miles a time starting in January walking from Amble to Redcar! Now you'll remember back in September 2022 she walked Redcar to Spurn Point so that section is complete. Then in February we'll be heading back to Amble and walking north to the border to complete another section. For March we'll arrive in Withernsea , you may remember in September Alba walked Redcar to Spurn over a week so now she's walked from the border all the way to Spurn we'll be starting the next section from there. Walking down to Hunstanton then from April Hunstanton to Clacton-on-Sea!

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Although we are following the England Coast Path we'll adapt this where needed for things like accommodation-Alba also wants to use ferries where there are some to connect her rather than walking around rivers.

However we do it, it will be an epic adventure!

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Alba's chosen charity is MIND!

She has chosen the Leeds branch to support for January & February-they're our closest branch and she's so excited to support them.

Now unlike her other fundraisers where she selects one charity a time because this walk will take 12+ months we are sticking with MIND. Choosing different branches to support as we go with the Hull and East Yorkshire the branch Alba will support for the March chunk of the walk. For April she will be supporting Suffolk Mind!

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We are also hoping to visit as many Mind branches as possible along the way! To meet everyone, say hello, get a photo and also spread the word on what Alba is doing. 

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We can't wait to share everything with you!

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Alba's story & why she fundraises

Meet Alba, she's 8 and since March 2021 has been on a mission to raise awareness for mental health and charities supporting it. If you know anything of Alba you'll know her reasons but for those that don't, she's doing it for her daddy and those just like him. You see from 3 months old Alba was visiting him in psychiatric hospitals whilst he did all he could to get well enough to be home. They did bedtimes via facetime, supervised visits and Christmas in family rooms on the wards of big hospitals. However, that is her hero. And she wants to do all she can to change the way people see and talk about mental health.

She's walked 100s of miles, 100s of 1000s of steps, she's walked from Castleford to Scarborough and so much in such a short amount of time raising so much awareness and money for lots of charities.

And now she's planning her 11th. January 21st Alba will arrive in Amble will stay the night ready to start her 100 mile trek the following day! Walking all the way down to Redcar. She's doing it in only 7 days.

As the route is now opened this fundraiser has doubled with her 12th! So in February she'll walk from Amble to the England/Scotland Border.

She'll be rocking her yellow croc wellies, bright odd socks and huge smile. You may spot her running, dancing, singing, making sandcastles and will happily wave and chat to anyone on route.

 

Alba's stats!
Age 5 she created the Orchard Head Covid-19 rock snake, got funding and it now lives in our local park
💚£3971.75 raised for Samaritans walking the 310,000 steps in March. She walked over 820,000 steps, raised thee most amount of money from everyone who took park. The money raised=794 phone calls.
🖤£1020 raised for Andys Man Club walking 200 miles in May. She walked 243.9 miles!
💛 £155 raised for YoungMinds collecting 100 bags in a week. She collected 101 bags of rubbish!
🧡 £695.75 raised for The CALMzone walking 600,000 steps in a month. She walked 867,362 steps!!
💙£70 raised for MINT - Men In Need Together walking 35 miles in 3 days. She walked 38 miles!
💜 £546.25 raised for IDAS walking 1 million steps in November. She walked 1,026,402 steps!
💛£1,165.25 raised for Place2Be walking 500,000 steps in February 2022. She walked 660,735 steps
💙Castleford-Scarborough for Papyrus. £5,321.18 RAISED
💜80 Miles before she turned 8 for SHOUT. £1,159
💙 Redcar-Spurn Point for Rethink mental illness. £4232.75 RAISED

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