Senior HR Business Partner Vikki Atkin is taking on a 20-mile walk later this month to raise money in memory of a friend’s daughter.
On April 20, Vikki and a group of friends will be taking on the Beverley 20, a route which starts at the Humber Bridge and heads north across the Yorkshire Wolds before finishing at Beverley Minster.
They are raising money for Alice’s Arc, a charity which supports children with rhabdomyosarcoma after Vikki’s friend Leanne lost her daughter Elsie to the rare form of cancer in January at the age of four.
Leanne tells her story on her JustGiving page:
“Elsie was diagnosed in September 2022 and, after nine rounds of intensive chemotherapy and 28 sessions of radiotherapy, she sadly relapsed. Elsie continued to fight and began another long journey on chemotherapy but sadly in December 2023 we were told Elsie’s treatment was no longer working and sadly Elsie fell to sleep at home on 3 January 2024. Elsie never complained throughout her journey and faced each day with such strength and bravery. She really is an inspiration to many.”
“The devastation of losing a child is beyond unbearable and no family or child should have to experience this. It is so important that we keep raising awareness on childhood cancer and help to raise funds into vital research for kinder treatments and even better a cure.”
Elsie’s full story can be read on the Alice’s Arc website here.
If anyone would like to join Vikki and her friends on the walk, please contact Vikki directly.
To make a donation to Alice’s Arc via JustGiving, follow the link below.