00:00So, it's quite a unique story, really. Sad, but also unique in the fact that I have quite
00:09a small team, and yet two colleagues within that team have had the help of Children's
00:15Hospice South West due to tragic circumstances in their lives. The Hippodrome works with
00:23a number of charities each year. We have a small group of charities that we work very
00:27closely with, and it just happens that Children's Hospice South West was one of the charities
00:33we were already working with, and then we found that we had this additional personal
00:38connection with it as well, and it was just a moment of madness. Me and Jo were in the
00:44office just having a cup of tea. I think it was you, Jo, that just went, shall we do the
00:49London meet?
00:50Oh, my goodness. What have your colleagues been saying? Have they been cheering you on
00:56and supporting you through all this training, I'm guessing?
01:00They've been amazing. I don't think we could actually do it without them. I mean, they're
01:04organising lots of extra fundraising. So, for example, they've had a bake sale over
01:11Christmas and Helen, sales assistant, is going to be cutting her hair off this week as part
01:19of the fundraising, which is an amazing thing to be doing. So, everyone is joining in and
01:25supporting us. So, that keeps us going as well, because you don't want to let these
01:28people down.
01:29We're getting support from all quarters, but it's the team at the Hippodrome that are really
01:33kind of driving this. So, it kind of frees myself and Jo up to get on with the training
01:38without having the additional worry of trying to raise funds as well, because that's why
01:44we're doing it. And like Jo has said, we did the bake sale at Christmas time when we had
01:50the panto, and our modern day Rapunzel is going to have her hair cut off at the end
01:55of this week.
01:56So, there's kind of a double story there.
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