Becca and George's Fundraising Page
Becca North and George Harrington
My Story
Hello and welcome to Becca and George's Fundraising Page for the Commonwealth War Graves Foundation (CWGF)! We have decided to support the Foundation by walking the Virtual London Marathon along the Thames Path.
Becca
CWGF holds a special place in my heart as I work for the non-charitable arm of the organisation, and have done so for almost a year now. I have wanted to work here since I was a teenager: I had visited a few of our sites in Belgium as a 13-year-old with school and it unleashed a need to find out what happened to my own relatives in the World Wars. That one school trip, just one day, changed the trajectory of what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, from university courses to living in Belgium and now working my dream job at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. History is a passion of mine and I believe very strongly in keeping the memory of people alive, especially after seeing my grandparents suffer with Alzheimer's and the impact it had on my family. The Foundation's work to tell the stories of those who fought and died during the World Wars is therefore something I deeply admire. Thanks to the Foundation, we were able to create a new online portal called For Evermore: Stories of the Fallen, where relatives can share detailed stories of their forebears who are in our care, ensuring their stories live on for future generations. Fundraising for the Foundation helps contribute to educational projects and outreach to inform the public about the lives lost during the First and Second World Wars, be it providing training needed for a volunteer to inspect our more remote graves, or supporting our Guides programme.
I am sure many of you have at some point been to our sites and experienced first-hand how moving the cemeteries and memorials are. With so many stories to share at each cemetery, and 33,000 cemeteries in total, it is hard to contemplate the scale of loss from the World Wars. Though many of those in our care died over one hundred years ago, their stories are still as relevant today as they were then: they are poignant reminders of the human cost of war, especially at a time of such instability around the world. For me, this is the ultimate reason I wanted to fundraise for the Foundation: to make sure that the stories of those from the last century who died as casualties of war are not forgotten, to help make sure we in this century do not repeat the past.
And so, we shall be walking the 26.2 miles, or 44 kilometres, on Sunday 21st April. For both of us this is our first ever marathon! We are in training at present and have completed 16 mile walks, with the aim of increasing our distances as time goes on. Thank you to everyone who has donated!
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Target
£500
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Raised so far
£501
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Number of donors
19
My Story
Hello and welcome to Becca and George's Fundraising Page for the Commonwealth War Graves Foundation (CWGF)! We have decided to support the Foundation by walking the Virtual London Marathon along the Thames Path.
Becca
CWGF holds a special place in my heart as I work for the non-charitable arm of the organisation, and have done so for almost a year now. I have wanted to work here since I was a teenager: I had visited a few of our sites in Belgium as a 13-year-old with school and it unleashed a need to find out what happened to my own relatives in the World Wars. That one school trip, just one day, changed the trajectory of what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, from university courses to living in Belgium and now working my dream job at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. History is a passion of mine and I believe very strongly in keeping the memory of people alive, especially after seeing my grandparents suffer with Alzheimer's and the impact it had on my family. The Foundation's work to tell the stories of those who fought and died during the World Wars is therefore something I deeply admire. Thanks to the Foundation, we were able to create a new online portal called For Evermore: Stories of the Fallen, where relatives can share detailed stories of their forebears who are in our care, ensuring their stories live on for future generations. Fundraising for the Foundation helps contribute to educational projects and outreach to inform the public about the lives lost during the First and Second World Wars, be it providing training needed for a volunteer to inspect our more remote graves, or supporting our Guides programme.
I am sure many of you have at some point been to our sites and experienced first-hand how moving the cemeteries and memorials are. With so many stories to share at each cemetery, and 33,000 cemeteries in total, it is hard to contemplate the scale of loss from the World Wars. Though many of those in our care died over one hundred years ago, their stories are still as relevant today as they were then: they are poignant reminders of the human cost of war, especially at a time of such instability around the world. For me, this is the ultimate reason I wanted to fundraise for the Foundation: to make sure that the stories of those from the last century who died as casualties of war are not forgotten, to help make sure we in this century do not repeat the past.
And so, we shall be walking the 26.2 miles, or 44 kilometres, on Sunday 21st April. For both of us this is our first ever marathon! We are in training at present and have completed 16 mile walks, with the aim of increasing our distances as time goes on. Thank you to everyone who has donated!
