Henny just a few days to go

Well, just a couple of days before my friend, Henny, sets off on her Arctic adventure, aiming to travel 250km by dog sled in 5 days - she leaves the UK on 29 January, coming back on 5 February (assuming she can persuade the huskies to pull the sled at all!). We all reckon she's mad, as she hates the cold, but she's also a loyal and caring friend, and she's doing this to raise money to help buy the specialised equipment that will make life just a little easier for the severely injured young son of one of our colleagues, and make it possible for him to go home for longer than a couple of days at a time.

Initially aiming to raise £3,000, she was completely taken aback by the response to her sponsorship page on the Just Giving website, and the total raise is now over £5,500, which is wonderful. The Bristol Royal Children's Hospital has already been able to start ordering some of that much needed but very expensive equipment as a result of her efforts.

She has started her own blog at http://iheni.wordpress.com where you can read more about the trip, and she is hoping to be able to send in live updates on her progress with the huskies, the sled, the reindeer soup, the cold, etc, etc. She'll also be taking photographs during the trip, and if she isn't able to post them to her blog as she goes, will certainly be posting them when she comes back, so do keep an eye on her blog over the next couple of weeks!

Sponsor Henny online | Read Henny's blog

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