Captain Tom Moore's 100th Birthday Walk for the NHS

[Gromm]

Apologies if posted already and please delete if inappropriate, I thought that some members here would appreciate a heads up:-

Coronavirus: War veteran, 99, wanted to raise £1,000 for NHS - he's currently on £3.7m
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-war-veteran...

Link to the JustGiving page:

Captain Tom Moore's 100th Birthday Walk for the NHS

Cpt Tom Moore is walking 100 lengths of his garden for NHS Charities Together because our fantastic NHS workers are national heroes

Story
Thanks for taking the time to visit 'Tom's 100th Birthday Walk For The NHS' page.

Captain Tom Moore, is aiming to walk a hundred lengths of the back garden(which is 25m in length) before he is 100 years old at the end of the month.

So get behind Tom as he does 10 laps a day!

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/tomswalkfor...

PS In the interest of transparency and full disclosure - I have absolutely no connection to the chap or the charity in question, just thought that I’d share the story.

[595Heaven]

This is such a great story, and perfect for these lockdown times.

I donated a few quid yesterday when the total was roughly £1.6 million. It’s gone totally crazy since then - just under £4.2 million at the moment.

Amazing work!

[Jordan210]

With all the doom and gloom in the world, How great it is to see a story like this.

Nearly at 5 million. Not bad when his original target was 1k !

[55palfers]

He's on BBC now. hey're saying the website has crashed with all the hits!

Give the man a Knighthood. Quickly.

[Short Grain]

Brilliant! Just gone past £5 million!!

Agree with a Knighthood for Cpt Tom! Quickly, as stated above!!

[anonymous-user]

We saw this yesterday when he was just shy of a million, tried a few times to donate but cannot get on to the site, its a wonderful story

[Quhet]

I saw him featured on the news yesterday, what an absolute gent. Proper feel good story!

[roboxm3]

Donated

[Saleen836]

Has it got so high the 'justgiving' website is unable to show the amount?

[arfursleep]

Saleen836 said:

Has it got so high the 'justgiving' website is unable to show the amount?

nope, showing at just over £6m when i donated about 20mins ago

[anonymous-user]

Wonderful man.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-52296313/coronavi...

[Sonie]

It will soon top £7m, not far off now.

[Parsnip]

A little dusty in here today.

Its a wonderful story - feel good, positive and warms even the coldest and deadest of hearts - exactly what is needed at the moment.

Closing in on £7m now...

[BigMon]

What a great story that is, and what a hero he is.

Just donating now.

[Jakarta]

In the time it took me to donate £20 it had gone up by £50k. Outstanding stuff

[Dixy]

I think this is a fantastic story, it shows great solidarity through out all age groups.
What concerns me about this and other stories like the Ron Dennis one is where the money will go or who will benefit. The generic answer is the NHS or NHS charities but that is awfully vague .

[citizensm1th]

Well done Sir not bad for a tanker.

It is a shame captain Tom never made it to major.

I hope HRH takes a special interest.

[Stuart70]

What a man, chapeau Captain Tom.

[funinhounslow]

Dixy said:

I think this is a fantastic story, it shows great solidarity through out all age groups.
What concerns me about this and other stories like the Ron Dennis one is where the money will go or who will benefit. The generic answer is the NHS or NHS charities but that is awfully vague .

The recipient will be NHS Charities Together

https://www.nhscharitiestogether.co.uk/what-we-do/

Registered charity number 1186569

Looks legit to me...

[fathomfive]

Donated when it was under £8m. Now at well over.

Amazing really.