Tom, you are a bloody legend 🙌
A World War Two veteran who is walking 100 lengths of his back garden before his 100th birthday has raised nearly £1.5 million for the NHS in just one week.
Tom Moore, 99, says the NHS have been ‘marvellous’ in helping him recover from both a hip replacement and skin cancer on his head over the last couple of years. As a way of saying thank you,, with the aim of walking 100 lengths by his 100th birthday on April 30. Tom, who began his walks last Monday, initially set a fundraising target of £1,000 for NHS Charities Together, only expecting support from his village of Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.
But after hitting headlines last week, he quickly smashed through his target – and has now raised almost £1.5million for frontline health workers. He told the BBC: ‘I thank the British public from the bottom of my heart.‘Who would have thought that when I set a target of £1,000 a week ago, it could have reached £800,000?’Tom added: ‘It’s difficult to imagine all these kind people who have donated so far. It’s just amazing.
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