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Katherine Eley

Swim 8km in March 2025

Help me reach my goal of £223

My Activity Tracking

9
mi

My target 8 mi

Final swim!

I promised myself I would try to make it to 15km.

A second swim of the day was needed for that last 500m.  A total of 600 lengths. 

I am pretty pleased with myself a d tired at the same time.

Thank you for your donations  too and motivation and support.

Challenge complete

I was pleased to complete the challenge early in March despite feeling under the weather at times.

I am just back from a last swim - I feel I need to go back to the pool today to complete another 500m to take my total swim to 15,000m .... so far I have completed 580 lengths and feel it should be rounded up to 600 so let's see if I can make it back to a pool today.

Thank you so much for your support and encouragement. I not only feel so much better following my surgery last year but I have found my love for swimming again, which I had lost. As well as raising much needed funds for a worthy charity.

Thank you :)

Eighth swim

Early swim this morning.

That's 8km swam in 19 days. I am impressed with myself.

The sponsorship has certainly been a motivation for me to swim  Thank you so much to everyone who has donated to GOSH. 

My next challenge is to see how many more swims I can manage by the end of March 😀

Seventh swim

Another morning swim. It wasn't such a good time to be in the pool. Lots of stop/start.

Only 1km to go and almost raised £300.


Sixth swim

A return to the pool after not feeling well.

It was a struggle but good to get back in the pool.

The sponsorship is most definitely a motivation, thank you 😊

Fifth swim

Early morning swim with the hardcore swimmers. A little slower swim this morning for me.

Another km ticked off and more sponsorship .... thank you. This is certainly adding to my  motivation  :)

Fourth swim

Another early morning swim,  another km achieved 😀

Third swim

Lunchtime swim today.

It was a rush but I managed a 1km swim and I felt motivated for the afternoon's work.


Second swim

Determined to make it to 2km, an evening swm..... not my preference.

Thank you for your donations and giving me the motivation 😀

First swim

I have started the challenge today, 1st.

Bright and early this morning 6.20am  swimming my first 800m.

This is a challenge to get back to fitness and loose the weight I gained following back surgery last year .

Thank you for supporting me and giving me the motivation.

I’m swimming 8km in March for GOSH Charity! 

I’m challenging myself to swim 8km this March to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity).

Childhood is special. It should be a time of joy, wonder, curiosity and fun. Of making friends, making mistakes, and growing into the adults we become. But it’s also fragile, and sometimes all too brief.

That’s why Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity raises funds to help give seriously ill children childhoods that are fuller, funner and longer. For the children from all over the UK who are treated by Great Ormond Street Hospital every day, for children with rare or complex illnesses everywhere, for this generation and all those to come. Because no childhood should be lost to serious illness.

And with every kilometre I swim, and every pound raised, we’ll be helping to give seriously ill children the best chance and the best childhood possible.

Please help me to achieve my goal by giving whatever you can; no amount is too small to make a difference.

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Reach My Goal

Raised

£458

+ £92.25 GiftAid + £0 Pledged

My Goal

£223

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Thank you to my Sponsors

£40

Michael And Christina

Great cause, best of luck, you can do it....think of the cake you can eat at the end! Christina and Michael x

£30

Alice Buckley

You’ve got this! Your incredible lady

£25

Lillie Oliver

Keep up the amazing work! Your doing amazing

£24

Murphie Manning

Good luck Katherine!xx

£24

Melissa Eley

I'm so very proud of you and all that you have achieved this month! ❤️

£20

Alison Brooks

Well done Katherine a huge achievement!

£20

Ann Watson

Congratulations Kathryn well done on the swimming

£20

Natalie Eley

£20

Elaine

Good luck x

£20

Robert Eley

Well done very proud of you

£20

John Breen

£20

Chris Gladwell

£20

Andrea Cooper

Well done Katherine!

£15

Sue West

Best of luck Katherine

£15

Janet Attewell

good luck Katherine we know you can do it Janet and Terry

£15

Ann Norris

Well done Katherine Love Ann and Paul xx

£15

Joanne & Andrew

Good luck with the challenge Katherine xx

£10

Karen Ebbs

£10

Claire Cross (sw)

Good luck Katherine! Keep up the amazing work!

£10

Sally X

Good luck Katherine, great cause! you go girl! X

£10

Christopher Lawrence

Hope the challenge goes well! Good Luck

£10

Jo

Well done x

£10

Sharon Virag

Well done Katherine, great cause 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

£10

Kirstie

Good luck! X

£10

Laura Barker

Well done Katherine

£10

Alison C

Good luck Katherine. You are smashing it

£5

El

Well done 👏