“I will be reaching a Milestone this year, on the 6th September I will be turning 40. I have set myself a challenge to complete the Coast to Coast walk which runs from St bees, located by the Irish Sea, to Robin Hood’s Bay, located by the North Sea. I am doing it as a personal challenge, but I will also be raising money for our local Air Ambulance service in Lincoln.

Undertaken in one go, the Coast to Coast path is a long, tough walk and in the 200 miles from seashore to seashore I would have ascended (and of course descended) the equivalent height of Mount Everest.

My target amount to be raised from this walk is £2,500.00 for charity, which will go towards our target figure of £10,000.00 to be raised in 2013 for Nottinghamshire & Lincolnshire Air Ambulance, Kids STRUT and the St Barnabas Hospice.

The Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance is a dedicated medical air service that first began operations in Lincolnshire in April 1994. Based at RAF Waddington, south of Lincoln, and unaffected by traffic congestion, country roads, heavy vehicles or road works the Helicopter can reach any destination in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire in 19 minutes. The air ambulance provides an important and sometimes vital additional patient care service for our most critically ill and injured patients.

At the time of composing this, the total number of missions flown to date is 13,950

Dave Pepper