00:00A former homeless man from Sverdlovsk has completed a 200-mile challenge walking the
00:07wash to raise money for the charity he credits for helping him turn his life around.
00:23Tim, three days after you got back and you're working hard again at Restore, how are you
00:29feeling? I'm getting there. My feet still hurt a little bit. I'm not as tired as I was
00:36but I'm on light duties. Now how did you feel when you arrived back at the storehouse on
00:45Monday? Very overwhelmed to be honest. I didn't expect the amount of people that were there
00:51but obviously I was tired. I haven't been in the best of places. I mean 200 miles, it's a long
01:03way isn't it and it took you nine days is that? Yeah, ten days technically. The official
01:13number was nine days. How was that journey? I enjoyed it but the weather wasn't on my
01:22side, neither were my feet and legs. I've had numerous blisters. I've ripped the skin
01:29off one of my tendons. I was about to pack a tin on the Saturday night but an anonymous
01:39donor came and gave me a cuddle and donated some waterproof socks, bought me a takeaway,
01:46some chocolate bars and basically said you need to push on and finish and that's what
01:53I did. And here you are and what about your little dog? He's great, he's fine. He's sitting
02:00in my office at the minute. So how did he cope because it's a long way for little legs
02:07isn't it? He's got a waterproof coat that he had on pretty much every day to keep the
02:14wind off him as well but he just pulls. He kept me going. Now you were raising money
02:23for Restore which is where we are today with the food bank and all the facilities for homeless
02:29people in Skegness, the lovely kitchen and shower facilities. How much did you raise?
02:37Put me on the spot. Nearly £1500. It's about £1480 something I believe. That's a lot of
02:49money. Did you expect that? I would have liked more but I'm happy with what we raised. But
03:01the page is still open to the end of the week and we are still accepting donations at the
03:06storehouse. And was it worthwhile? Definitely, yeah. I'll do it again next week. You must
03:15be really proud of Tim. I really am, yes. Tim has gone from client to volunteer to very
03:23close friend and I enjoy hanging out with Tim outside of work as well but hearing the
03:29story of him going from planning this walk to it becoming a fundraiser to it being for
03:36him taking action on it and actually going through with it and completing it, I'm just
03:40so proud of him. He's made such a big difference here at the storehouse with his volunteering
03:44and now he's made a really big difference with this fundraiser as well. As you might
03:48have already heard, there's a lot of money that's been raised through this and it's all
03:52going to go towards the food bank, it's going to go towards the Restore Centre for the Homeless.
03:57So people's lives are going to be changed because of the stuff that Tim's done but also
04:01for the people out there that have contributed towards the fundraiser, whether it might just
04:06be a couple of pence or a pound or something, all of that is going towards making a difference
04:11in Skegness. So what Tim's done is great but what you guys have done out there who
04:15have donated is great as well. And the fundraiser is still open, there's still time to donate
04:21so I'm sure there'll be a link in the description somewhere for the GoFundMe page but thank
04:26you very much everyone out there. And it must be inspirational to people who've fallen
04:32on hard times and become homeless to see how someone can turn their lives around like this.
04:39Absolutely, yes. Tim is a great example. We set out here at the Restore Centre hoping
04:44to be able to help people from the situation they're in to elevate them into a position
04:49where they've got accommodation, where they're independent, where they don't need the food
04:53bank, where they don't need the Restore Centre anymore. Tim's gone full circle and now he's
04:58volunteering, helping others that are going through the same thing he went through. One
05:02of our things we really wanted to achieve was peer-to-peer support and Tim really is
05:07the coming through of that here at the Restore Centre.
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