Stroud District Council staff are on track to hit their fundraising target for a mobile cancer care charity.
SDC staff and a councillor ran the Stroud Half Marathon on Sunday, October 26, and all finished to see the £1,100 target for Hope for Tomorrow within sight.
SDC officers Abi Young, Daisy Bennett, George Maslin, Joe Phillips, Rachael Lythgoe, Lindsey Uppington, Julian White, Rosalind Young, and Stuart Beckett, Active Lifestyles Stroud’s Sophie Herbert, Emily Richards, Sophie Neale, Reuben Dahdouh, Kiera Wheatley, Leanna Parry, and Paul Westoby, and Councillor Gill Thomas all ran the 13.1 mile course, cheered on by large crowds.
The Stroud Athletics Club event is in its 43rd year and starts and finishes in Cainscross Road, Stroud. The course takes in Cainscross, Stonehouse, Standish, Moreton Valence, Whitminster, and Great Oldbury before retracing its steps from the Horsetrough roundabout in Stonehouse back to the finish.
Some of the staff were raising money for the SDC Charity of the Year, Hope for Tomorrow, and donations would be very welcome. Each year SDC staff vote for a local charity to support and Hope for Tomorrow brings vital cancer care closer to patients, enabling them to spend more time with family and friends. Julian is raising funds for former SDC Staff Charity of the Year, Longfield Hospice too.
Councillor Gill Thomas ran as a Womble collecting rubbish in her role as SDC Member Champion for Litter and Clean Environment.- more information is on her Facebook page.
Council Leader Chloe Turner paid tribute to all their efforts and that of the organisers.
“I would like to congratulate all of our staff who took part,” she said. “The brilliant cancer charity Hope for Tomorrow is being supported by our staff this year, and I am pleased to see that they are close to their fundraising target. Councillor Thomas’s work in her Member Champion role is a great way of getting the message across about not dropping litter too.
“The Stroud Half is a great fixture in the Stroud calendar – congratulations to all the volunteers who help put on such a well-organised event.”
