Family/fundraising star
Getting fit –
After
About Bluebell Wood
hospice
Bluebell Wood children’s hospice is a
‘home from home’ environment for over
and doing good
200 children from South Yorkshire, North
East Derbyshire, North Nottinghamshire
and North Lincolnshire who are not
expected to live to adulthood.
Families can visit for a few hours a
week or even stay in private rooms at
Bluebell Wood, which is often the first
break the family have had in years. It’s a
place where mums, dads and siblings, as
well as the sick children, can have fun,
relax and get the support they need from
the hospice’s multidisciplinary team of
medical staff, nursery nurses, teachers
and social workers – whether it’s just
playing in the games room or having
different therapies.
Bluebell Wood’s nurses also lend a
helping hand to families in their own
homes, and in hospitals, giving every
kind of end-of-life, palliative and respite
care, as well as bereavement support.
The charity’s chief executive Sarah
Champion says, ‘It’s amazing to hear
Above: Gary can’t believe how good he personally. Gary is paying for the trek himself so
feels and how much energy he has since
that Gary will be raising such a huge
all sponsorship goes straight to Bluebell Wood
he started exercising.
amount for us, and I think his challenge
and, through the Just Giving site, they receive
is incredible. Bluebell Wood is behind
the donation straight away.
him one hundred per cent and I hope the
‘I’m eating just as much as before, if not more, There’s still one obstacle preying on Gary’s
public will be too.’
though I am having more fruit,’ he says. mind. Being fi t for the trek isn’t just about being
However, what has changed about his eating able to move fast – it’s also about improving
habits is when he eats. In his unhealthy days, circulation through cardiovascular training.
he’d skip breakfast, have a heavy lunch and ‘Frostbite is a real concern – I don’t want to
then not eat till 8pm, when he’d have another lose any toes!’ he jokes. ‘But there’s no way I’m
heavy meal. Now he includes breakfast and going to let Bluebell Wood down.’ ■
spreads his eating out over the day.
Everyone at Bluebell Wood was amazed
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Please support Gary’s amazing challenge!
when Gary told them what he was doing, and You can sponsor Gary at www.justgiving.
he now visits several times a month, though the com/garyswift-arctic. Please tick the Gift Aid
families receiving help obviously want privacy,
Lara, enjoying Bluebell Wood’s sensory
box to make sure Bluebell Wood can claim
room with big
sister Rebecca.
so he hasn’t been able to get to know them an extra 28p for every pound.
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