In October – Kirstie and I set off to tackle the NC500 to raise awareness and funds for the amazing charity – the Scottish Assosciation of Mental Health. We set ourselves the challenge of completing the NC500 in 5 days – covering over 500 miles and completely self suffiecient …
Autumn Step Challenge – Week 4 and Final Results We have completed our Autumn Step Challenge! A huge thank you to everyone who took part, collectively we covered a lot of ground. The final leader board and awards are all listed below… Everyone finished strong in the final week …
The Mental Health First Aiders team has put together a great winter newsletter, with lots of tips and info to help you look after yourself in these challenging times. You can read the newsletter at Go to this Sway. Nov 27, 2020
Social Bite – Trees of Kindness This year Social Bite are installing two Christmas trees in the city centres of Glasgow and Edinburgh for their Trees of Kindness initiative. They are asking people to donate a gift to someone who is homeless or vulnerable and place it under the …
When you’ve a big challenge coming up – preparation is key. Not just of the kit you are going to need – but the reality of mileage. We have done our chunky cycles before (see previous blogs) – often with trying inclines – always summiting with sweat and smiles. But …
We have completed the third week of the challenge, just 7 more days to go! As a team we have averaged just over a million steps a week (totalling 3,238,500) lets see if we can beat that in the final week. The challenge ends on Monday 30th November and the …
That’s week 2 completed so we are halfway through the challenge now. It was another mixed week for weather with quite a few rainy days, but that doesn’t seem to be stopping our steppers! Unfortunately not everyone has synced their data to the Count.It site yet so I can only …
HELLO! This October 2020 – Kirstie and I ( sadly Jenny could not start with us due to illness) – began our NC500 Challenge. As our email on our return detailed – our challenge was sadly postponed after 2 days in – due to extreme adverse weather conditions …
Are you planning on buying a real Christmas tree this year? For years now, I have bought my Christmas trees from Caring Christmas Trees, which is working to help end homelessness in Scotland. All profits from Caring Christmas Trees go to Bethany Christian Trust’s winter work. Caring Christmas Trees are …
We have now completed the first week of our autumn step challenge, it was a mixed week for weather but it looks like that didn’t stop anyone getting out and about and logging those steps! Unfortunately not everyone has synced their data to the Count.It site yet so I can …
