Civil Servants Walk to Support

On Friday 2nd March I undertook my 10 hour walk. As everyone in the UK will know, for the majority of that week it had been snowing and was bitterly cold, and whilst it wasn't as bad in Essex as it was in other parts of the UK, as my photos will attest, the conditions were certainly not ideal. Whilst I was determined to do the walk in 10 hours, I also reminded myself that my safety was the main priority, so I was at least going to walk for as long as I could. I set out from my house in Rayleigh, Essex, at just gone 7, and decided to walk along familiar roads, setting my Nan's old house as my target. The conditions on the pavements varied, to areas where there as no snow or ice, to areas where I nearly slipped and fell multiple times! I decided that it was safest to walk on snowier parts which often meant I walked in a zig zag motion, meaning I probably looked even madder than normal! I reached my nana's old house which is just on the outskirts of Southend near the airport

On top of fundraising, we have had a really fantastic time working directly with IRMO over the past few months. A quick reminder for those who tragically missed the last blog post - IRMO is the "Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organisation", a London-based charity looking to support Indoamericans to escape from poverty and exploitation.  We spent some time at the beginning of our collaboration in September discussing how best we could support the work they do. IRMO runs a number of different projects from a Women’s Project that supports women with anything from learning English, to providing emotional and social support to a Careers service that aims to help individuals with developing their employability skills, writing a CV and interview practice.  Through our conversations with the charity we decided to collaborate with the Family Project and LIFE, two projects that focus on education and supporting children and young adults ages 5-19 with their learning and developme

Thrown together by fate our merry little band sat pondering a few months ago on how to put ourselves out there to raise money for charity... We wanted to make some good in the world, so naturally we thought "Perhaps we could tame alligators?" I said - however Catherine pointed out that sadly crocodile taming was not in mine, nor any other of the group's abilities... We had no hidden crocodile dundee. One person piped up with cake sale... however we stared down at our ever expanding waistlines (a sad side effect of office life) and realised that we couldn't just rely on calories - we would need to be a little more creative, both to push the boat out for charity and to avoid becoming "the blob". As we stared into a vision came to us. Perhaps it was a prophecy. Perhaps it was just too little sleep in the opening weeks of our new job... But regardless it was a sign. So we decided to go and battle our willpower. *hooray*. A bit about us: We ar