MY 31 x 31 x 31 CHALLENGE. FUNDRAISING FOR VIVA!

July 2025

Once again I'm delivering 31 chocolate cakes throughout July - this time to 31 departments of Musgrove Park Hospital- my local hospital. I'm doing this to fundraise for Viva! again, and to help with my training for my next ultra. I chose the hospital because of my huge respect for the NHS and its workers. 

The ingredients once again are being sponsored by Lesser Litter - soo the cakes,  as well as being vegan, will be organic!

As of today, the 28th July, I've completed the task. And I'm feeling regretful that it's all over!

Here I'd like to show my appreciation to 2 NHS workers, Shazzie and Emma, who selected the wards (grouped in 3s, since I could get 3 cakes in my rucksack at a time), and guided me round what is admittedly, a maze! It was a complicated job, and they did it to perfection.

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PLANT-BASED NUTRITION FOR DOGS - AND CATS

 As I'm fond of saying in my outreach spiel, when Lewis Hamilton went vegan, he put his dog, Roscoe, on a plant-based diet - and cured him of arthritis! [Which is exactly what happened to me when I gave up all animal products.] Roscoe is now a healthy, 11yr-old bulldog - which is a bit of a rarity!

But anecdotal evidence is meaningless - what's needed is science backed evidence. 

"From my published research in 2022, dogs fed a plant-based diet could live up to 18 months longer than those fed a meat-based diet."

"Evidence based published papers supporting dogs going plant-based."

And my good friend, Dr Arielle Griffiths, who is a plant-based vet, provides it:

Not just dogs - cats also benefit from plant-based nutrition

There are many recommendations on Dr Griffith's Facebook page: