Ride for their lives - Ride to COP26

Hi, my name is Sam and I am a specialist paediatric nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital for children.

On the 24th October 2021, I will be joining a small group of other paediatric healthcare professionals and we will be cycling over 500 miles from Great Ormond Street Hospital to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow, where COP26 is taking place.

This will be one of the toughest challenges I have ever taken part in. The eight day journey from London to Glasgow is going to be long and hard. We hope it will act as an inspiration for the long and arduous journey our species now must take. Those of us taking part protect our children's health and we are riding to protect our children's future.

Working with children and young people as health practitioners we feel it is our duty to communicate the climate crisis because it affects human health. Children bear no responsibility for the situation, but they are already the worst affected. Unlike older patients, children will live through the escalation of the crisis.

Our goal when we reach Glasgow's COP26 is to deliver messages from the global health community including the latest UNICEF report Climate Crisis is a Childs Rights Crisis.

This is not a charity event and we are self funding this epic journey. I would be so grateful for any support that you can give me to fund the following - warm and dry clothing, full service of my bike before the trip, bike mechanics for the journey, accommodation on route and getting home from Glasgow. Anything that is left I plan to give to the charity Save the Children.