How War Veteran  Raised £14 million for Britain's National Health Service by Walking
Channel: News Side
Date: 17/04/2020

How War Veteran  Raised £14 million for Britain's National Health Service by Walking

Captain Tom Moore would turn 100 on  Friday 16th April 2020. He completes the 100-lap challenge for NHS as donations top £14m.  The Second World War veteran, 99, had hoped to raise £1,000 on JustGiving when he started walking 100 laps of his garden.

The World War Two veteran, who lives with his family in Bedfordshire, had originally hoped to raise £1,000 for the NHS when he started the challenge last week – but by Thursday morning he had raised a total of more than £12 million, donated by more than 650,000 supporters.

After reaching his target, completed with a guard of honour from the 1st Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment (pictured below), he said he felt "fine" and was glad to be "surrounded by the right sort of people".

He has received multiple messages of thanks from NHS workers, sports personalities and politicians.