Making A Splash!

Posted on Jan 27, 2025

One of our fantastic support workers, Lindsey is making a splash for Forget Me Not’s big appeal. Forget Me Not are a charity established to provide essential care to children with life-shortening conditions, their families and families living with the loss of their child across West Yorkshire. They provide high quality, bespoke, specialist services for mums and dads to be, babies, children, and their families, who are coping with life-shortening conditions and living with loss across West Yorkshire.

They have launched an urgent appeal after announcing that they face a funding gap of £1million!

Lindsey has worked at Next Step Trust just over 7 years and has seen the direct impact Forget Me Not has had for some of the Next Steppers and their families that she supports, some of whom we have sadly recently lost.

Lindsey is taking on the challenge of swimming the distance from our main day service centre in Halifax, to the hospice in Huddersfield and back not once, but twice!  This is a distance of 28 miles or 45062 metres!

Lindsey will be completing this challenge over a 2-week period from 17th Feb- 3rd March, hopefully joined by some special friends along the way. All of the money raised will be donated to Forget Me Not in addition to £610 that was successfully raised at Next Step in the run up to Christmas.

If you would like to support Forget Me Not and sponsor Lindsey on her journey, please follow the following link Fundraiser by Lindsey Sykes : Making A Splash!

Thank you for your support & wish her luck!