Our New Year Resolutions helping Worthy Causes
It’s January, it’s a new year, a new decade and how are your new year resolutions going! The new year as always brings the usual new year resolutions. Be they get fitter, lose weight, maybe give something up or adopt some new healthier habits. Here at Allegro Optical we thought rather than do the norm we’d do something a little different. While we’re doing it we will help some worthy causes in the process. This year Allegro Optical will be supporting and promoting the On Song Community Choir and Speed of Sight. On Song Choir a choir helping its members suffering with Parkinson’s Disease and their families to cope with this difficult disease. Speed of Sight is a charity which provides disabled people aged 6 to 90 and their families to take part in driving experiences. An experience which is taken for granted by the able-bodied. If you’d like to know more about either causes then please give our blogs a read. Now as a way to help and support these two wonderful causes we’ve decided to do a sponsored slim!
Speed of Sight driving experiences both on track and off road throughout the UK to blind and disabled adults and children
Pounds for £
Yes, you read that correctly quite a few of us team members are doing a sponsored slim. What is a sponsored slim you ask? Well that’s a very good question! Quite frankly I had the same question when Sheryl asked if I’d like to take part. As a team we’ll be losing weight and in the process, raise money for Speed of Sight and On Song Choir. While trimming those pounds we’ll be giving the pounds to worthy causes (Personally that’s a win win for me!). I also will personally be donating £1 for every pound I lose.
A Whole New Team Building Exercise
So, as a whole team we’re hoping to lose lots of pounds. We’ll help each other reach our goals and help two wonderful causes. We have Abi to lend a helping hand with our dieting. Abi has recently lost an incredible six and a half stone in just 18 months. For any running tips we’ll head straight to Amy and Gemma who are both keen runners. Amy recently ran the Loch Ness marathon to raise money for the AMMF cancer charity last year, in memory of her Dad. I am sure Amy and Gemma will also help to keep everyone motivated. I myself plan to train and run a 5k this summer. I’ll be raising money for both causes (pray for my feet and legs). Later in the year the whole team will be doing a sponsored trek to the summit of Snowdon. Once at the top we plan to do something you’ve probably have never seen on the top of a mountain before. Or are ever likely to again, but you’ll have to wait for that (no spoilers).
Bring On The Sweat
We will of course be keeping you all updated of our progress, with pictures of us sweating those pounds off and how many pounds will be turning into £ regularly. If you would like to support these two wonderful causes then you can find out all about them by visiting our blog for regular updates. I will be tracking the teams progress for you all to read and posting details of how you can support and promote them too.
