Rachel Colenso

Thanks to West London Mums for a great article! westlondonmum.co.uk  I hope we garner more support for The Red Cross Disaster Fund. We are planning to complete our next leg of the scoot up the Thames starting at Runneymede Playpark and heading approximately four miles up the river to straight road in Old Windsor. This will be on 9th March in the afternoon. If interested in joining us please email me on: rachelcolenso@gmail.com

Wow, delighted to be receiving donations for our scoot along the Thames for the Red Cross Disaster Fund. We are now starting to see donations from people beyond family and friends which is very exciting. It is very encouraging, and I think we cannot give up now. If the weather is OK on Sunday we will head out and try to continue. Am hoping that in the following weeks we may be able to ferry some supplies out that could be useful to people who have lost their belongings along the Thames. As I write gale force winds are shaking the entire building we are in. The glass in our windows, and floor is reverberating despite its concrete base. Just getting concerned because the entire structure is beginning to move and the trees outside are moving from near the base of their trunks. We are in the Heathrow flight path, and apparently planes are being diverted or delayed from landing at Heathrow. It is quite frightening because you cannot be sure how much wind a building like this can withsta...

(Our family have completed over 60km of a charity challenge we set ourselves to support The British Red Cross Disaster Fund. We plan to scoot the length of The Thames. We have travelled, with our daughters (now age 3 and 6) scooting from Battersea, all the way to Staines-upon-Thames.) Our journey has become increasingly difficult with debris from the extreme winds and Christmas storms blocking sections of the towpath along Sunbury, and the first indications of lowland flooding at Denborough Island West on the 5th of January . Flooding of roads prevented us accessing the section from Shepperton to the M3 on the 12th of January. Following this, we continued with the next section of the scoot and were shocked to see vast stretches of the Thames flooded with homes lining the southern banks partially submerged. This was  from the M3 to Laleham on 19th of January 2014. On the section from Laleham to Staines on the 16th of January 2014 car parks, fields and childrens' playgrounds w...

See below, the article written on our world record scooting challenge to help the British Red Cross Disaster Fund: Article in Getsurrey regional news channel IF you would like to support our little girls and help to give food, shelter and hope to someone right now you can donate here: Thames River Scoot