Friary bass player Cat Whittingham-Smith is taking on the extreme challenge of the Thames Path 100km Ultramarathon next Saturday, together with her former Irish Guards’ colleague Ruth Lewis, a clarinet player. Cat explains: ‘We like to try and fundraise at least once a year together. The past couple of years we’ve done the Shine Marathon Walk for Cancer Research. This year we decided to up the ante and enter into a 100km run for Helen & Douglas House, an absolutely amazing charity. Neither of us has ever run any sort of ultra distance so it’s definitely a new challenge!’
Helen & Douglas House is a children’s hospice which looks after terminally ill children and their families. Cat and Ruth’s target of £800 could fund two visits to the penguins, which is an activity the children absolutely love to do around Christmas. Helen & Douglas House also helps provide care to families in their own home, with £50 funding a two-house session for a child with one of the Outreach Nurses, all the way to £500 providing end of life care of a child in their own home. For more information about the charity, please visit https://www.helenanddouglas.org.uk/
If you would like to help Cat and Ruth along the way by supporting such a worthy charity with a donation, however small, their JustGiving page can be found at
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