Anthony Frith – Coast to Coast Challenge

Anthony Frith (Site Manager in our Nottingham business) undertook the Coast to Coast Challenge for End Youth Homelessness during the month of September.

He started at Robin Hoods Bay on the East Coast and walked to St Bees on the West Coast, covering upwards of 140 miles and if that wasn’t enough, he slept rough each night as well. His main aim for doing this was to help young people who find themselves homeless and to date he has raised an amazing £2227!

Due to excruciating pain in his legs, Ant did have to miss a short leg of the route but he did cover the total mileage and more due to getting lost a couple of times and his map was even stolen at a pub en-route! The section that he missed will be completed in the October half term.

Ant also did a detour and climbed Helvellyn via Striding edge, which is very precarious at the best of times, let alone with 26kgs on his back. But this just added to the experience and pushed him on not only physically but mentally. This made Ant realise that he can push himself a lot further than he thought – past his pain threshold and just breaking through mental brick walls.

Ant met a lot of wonderful people on his walk, who were all very supportive and great to talk to and he is now looking at his next charity challenge and seeing what he can do to make it an even bigger event.

Well done Ant!