At 9am on the 18th December, Mr Hawkes embarked on a run from Etone College in Nuneaton to Turves Green Boys School in order to raise money for the 3 house charities at TGBS. The distance between the 2 schools is just over a marathon distance coming in at 26.4 miles.
In the lead up to the main event, a few fundraisers were held in order to build the money raised. This included a couple of bake sales with cakes provided by Mrs Hawkes and other members of our Head of PE’s family as well as a time predictor challenge.
On the day, Mr Hawkes ran with a support car who provided motivation as well as food and drink to keep him going however many members of the public gave encouraging honks of horns along the way. As the end of the school day rapidly approached, Mr Hawkes made it through the school gates with minutes to spare and he was greeted with a huge cheer and round of applause from all of staff and students.
As a school, over £800 was raised with the money being split between Age UK, The Birmingham Children’s Hospital and The Buddy Bag Foundation.
Mr Hawkes would like to thank everyone who got involved and donated towards the cause but also everyone who cheered as he made it into school.
