{"id":132,"date":"2021-10-01T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/?p=132"},"modified":"2023-04-20T09:54:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T08:54:15","slug":"one-fundraiser-pushing-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/blog\/one-fundraiser-pushing-boundaries\/","title":{"rendered":"One fundraiser, pushing boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-intro\">Jenny, who leads our community and events fundraising teams, shares how one amazing supporter has made all the difference to Sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been a gruelling few months for supporter Rob Lloyd. Earlier this year, the former Channel 4 \u2018Secret Millionaire\u2019 decided to take on 12 months of ambitious challenges for Sense. Calling it \u2018Rob\u2019s Senseless Challenge,\u2019 Rob has been pushing boundaries with challenges ranging from skydiving to SAS training. This week, he\u2019s running the London Marathon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube is-style-primary wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Thanks to our amazing fundraiser Rob\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/afLPihXBxhM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re so grateful to Rob for dedicating his year to raising vital funds for Sense. We can\u2019t thank him enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever since Rob came to Sense in 2018 and applied to run the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/fundraising-events\/tcs-london-marathon\/\">&nbsp;London Marathon<\/a>&nbsp;for us, he has blown us away with his enthusiasm, creativity and passion to support people with complex disabilities. Rob\u2019s support has allowed us to raise more funds through our shops, open new services and engage more people with what Sense does across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Rob first told us his plans for the year, we thought that he was being incredibly ambitious. He would have to juggle training for grueling challenges alongside a demanding day job and his family life. We should have known that he was going to take on each of these challenges with his trademark resolve. In fact, he\u2019s got stuck into even more challenges than we expected, taking on four challenges in one month alone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rob is continually inspiring people across Sense and in communities across the UK. He is determined, resilient and with over \u00a350,000 fundraised to date, is making an incredible impact to the lives of people who are deafblind or have complex disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re looking forward to his future challenges and seeing how he will push himself further for Sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n  <div class=\"wp-block  box  ctaBox    is-style-textured-grey-tint-10\">\n    <div class=\"ctaBox__row\">\n      <div class=\"ctaBox__content\">\n        <div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Inspired by Rob&#8217;s challenge?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Show your support now with a donation. <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ctaBox__cta\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/get-involved\/fundraise-for-sense\/rob-lloyds-senseless-challenge\/\" class=\"button  button--primary\">Donate now<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny, who leads our community and events fundraising teams, shares how one amazing supporter has made all the difference to Sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"display_author":[88],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","display_author-jenny-flack"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"display_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/display_author?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}