Paul Smith Challenge 200

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Following on from the great success of 101 Miles for Centre Point in the spring of 2011, I will embark on my biggest challenge yet in April 2012, self-propelling my wheelchair approximately 200 miles from Portland Dorset, to the home of Arsenal Football Club, the Emirates Stadium London.  The challenge will take 5 days and see me complete the equivalent of almost 8 marathons, 50 miles a day for the first 2 days and 30 miles a day for the last 3.
This challenge will benefit Save the Children, the UK charity with a mission to end child deaths hear in the UK and around the world.  We will also be supporting 2 new projects ‘Families and Schools Together’ (FAST) programme, a range of education programmes in the UK  and overseas to help the poorest children get a better start in life and give them the change to grow and fulfil their potential.  The FAST programme is an award winning, U.N endorsed scheme.

The second project is ‘Eat, Sleep, Learn, Play (ESLP). The ESLP initiative is a programme that assists children living in the most desperate need by providing household essentials like a child’s bed, a family cooker or educational books and toys.

Over the past 4 years, I have helped raise in excess of £1,500,000 for local disabled children, the Teenage Cancer Trust, the Kiya survivors in Peru, Great Ormond Street Children’s Charity, and most recently when I raised £25,000 for Centrepoint for Youth Homelessness.  Through Challenge 200 I hope to raise £50,000 for the benefit of Save the Children.

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