Dear John

If you haven’t heard about Captain Tom Moore already, then you’re in for a heartwarming treat.

Captain Tom is approaching his 100th birthday and wanted to do something special. He set out to raise £1,000 for NHS Charities Together by completing 100 laps of his garden.

Today he completed his final lap. But he didn’t raise £1,000. He raised £14,000,000 (yes that’s fourteen million)!

His daughter described him as a ‘beacon of hope in dark times’ and I couldn’t agree more. 

His achievement comes at a time when we’re being braced for a lockdown extension and speculation is rising that social distancing measures may have to be with us in some form for a year or more.

But veteran Captain Tom has seen it all, including having served in World War Two, and he has the reassuring words we need to hear too. He said:

"We will get through it in the end but it might take time, but at the end of the day we shall all be okay again... the sun will shine on you again and the clouds will go away."

Thank you, Captain Tom, for giving everyone a much-needed boost.  And thank you to everyone who donated to his fundraiser, showing once again how generous and kind so many people are being in these tough times.  

Kind regards

Siobhan Benita

Lib Dem Candidate for Mayor of London

p.s.  You can watch Captain Tom completing his 100th lap on BBC Breakfast here. <[link removed]>

CORONA KINDNESS



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