Tom Moore, 99, who gets about with the help of a walking frame, is aiming to walk his 25-metre-long garden 100 times before his birthday on 30 April. His first aim for the daily lengths was to raise £1,000 for NHS Charities Together but after just a week his Just Giving page has received more than £400,000, and he has now set half a million pounds as his goal.
Moore, who served as an officer with the 145 Regiment Royal Armoured Corps from 1940, said, “It’s difficult to imagine all these kind people who have donated so far. I think it’s just amazing.” Moore, who lives in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, said the NHS has been great in helping him recover from a hip replacement, and from skin cancer on his head.
He is walking 10 lengths a day and said, “I’m finding it fine. The weather is lovely. I couldn’t wish for better.” Moore lives with his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband and two children. “Dad turns 100 on April 30, and my sister and I had been planning a huge party for him, but obviously we can’t do that now. He told us that he wanted to do 100 lengths of the garden before he turns 100.”
Hannah’s employer Maytrix Group is donating £1 for every length Moore completes, but Hannah says that if he keeps up his present pace, he will exceed his aim. She said, “He’s breaking it so far. His aim is 100, but I think he intends to do more.” As of the day April 13, he has raised more than 1.2 million pounds.
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