Badger Holdings paddles 110 miles for children’s hospice

Badger Holdings has raised £22,000 for a children’s hospice by canoeing 110 miles.

Tony Addinall, chief executive of Badger Holdings, the parent company to Townends and Regents Estate Agents, Tyser Greenwood Surveyors and dot financial services, led a team of 16 colleagues and friends (pictured) to raise the funds for The Shooting Star Children’s Hospice in Hampton, Middlesex.

The sponsored four-day paddle started at Devizes in Wiltshire on June 24 with eight teams of two in Canadian-style open canoes, plus a support vehicle. The teams then paddled for up to 33 miles a day, along the Kennet Avon Canal and then on to the Thames, with overnight stops at Kintbury in Berkshire, Henley-on-Thames and Datchett in Berkshire. The group reached the finish line in Richmond, Surrey on June 27.

Addinall says: “This was one of the hardest challenges I have undertaken to date. The first day out saw us having to go through 33 locks in 15 miles, which meant taking the canoes out of the water each time, which was particularly hard going.”

He adds: “I’m glad it’s over, but I’m already planning next year’s event which, at the moment, looks likely to be a row across the channel, which could take a week.”

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