Nine-year-old Tobias 奮起させるd by Captain Tom for lockdown マラソン
A nine-year-old boy with cerebral palsy and autism says he is 決定するd to copy the fundraising 偉業／利用するs of Captain Tom Moore after he reached the half-way point in his challenge to walk a lockdown マラソン.
Tobias Weller has been dubbed Captain Tobias by friends and 隣人s who come out in their dozens to watch him 完全にする 750 metres each morning, using his walker in his street in the Beauchief area of Sheffield.
得点する／非難する／２０s of families 迎える／歓迎する Tobias at the same time each day, clapping and 元気づける his 進歩 and waving 掲示s 勧めるing him on.
奮起させるd by Captain Tom’s 偉業／利用するs, Tobias has already raised almost £15,000 for Sheffield Children’s Hospital and Paces School ? his special school in the city ? and ーするつもりであるs to 追加する thousands more before his challenge is 完全にする at the end of May.
“I saw Captain Tom and he was using his walker, I think he’s awesome,” Tobias said.
“I started doing 50 metres every day but now I do 750 metres.
“Yesterday I reached the half-way point ? that’s 21,100 metres. It was amazing. The whole street （機の）カム out to clap me.
“It’s a very long way to walk but I am finding it a bit easier every day.
“I love it when people are clapping and 元気づける. It 動機づけるs me to walk even その上の.”
His mother Ruth said: “W 女／おっせかい屋 we were first on lockdown we knew that Tobias had to do physio every day so, ーするために get in a 決まりきった仕事, we started walking every day.
“And then people started coming out and clapping and 元気づける him. So we thought, why don’t we have a 的 and a マラソン’s the gold 基準?
“Then Tobias saw Captain Tom on the TV and thought, ‘I can do that ? he’s got a walker, he’s walking a long way and he’s walking for charity. And I want to do that 同様に’.”
Teacher Ms Garbutt said: “It’s hard, 特に because we’re on a hill. You can’t get away from the fact that we live in Sheffield so we’re going to be on hills.”
The money raised will help the Children’s Hospital Charity through its 緊急 Covid-19 控訴，上告 and Paces School, a 非，不，無-持続するd special school where the ethos is on children 存在 challenged to reach their 十分な 可能性のある.
Ms Garbutt said Tobias loves going to the hospital, where he had his first 操作／手術 when he was three weeks old.
Another Pace School pupil ? Lennie Street, eight, from 物陰／風下d ? is also 請け負うing a challenge to raise money during the lockdown.
Lennie, who has cerebral palsy and hydrocephalus and cannot stand or walk 独立して, is learning 100 songs on the piano over the next month.
Paces, based in High Green, is trying to raise £3.5 million に向かって a new 明言する／公表する-of-the-art 施設 which will be a 国家の centre for conductive education.
長，率いる of fundraising Julie Booth said: “We are 極端に proud of Tobias and Lennie for taking on such 抱擁する challenges to support Paces. They are 絶対の 星／主役にするs.”
Abbie Pervin, 地域の fundraising 経営者／支配人 at the Children’s Hospital Charity, said: “We want to say a 抱擁する thank you to Tobias from everyone at Sheffield Children’s for taking on this amazing challenge.
“He is such an inspirational youngster, wanting to 押し進める himself and raise money for his two favourite charities.”
Captain Tobias’s fundraising page is at justgiving.com/crowdfunding/ruth-garbutt-3?utm_term=B2NdR4p66
Lennie’s fundraising page is at justgiving.com/（選挙などの）運動をする/Lenniestunes
