Thirsk woman marks 100th birthday after meeting £18k standing up challenge

A 100-year-former girl is celebrating her birthday having met her effort to stand up 100 instances sooner than her colossal day, raising nearly £18,000 for charity.

Joyce Richardson, from Thirsk, North Yorkshire, raised the cash for Herriot Hospice Homecare in Northallerton, which cared for her son.

Having virtually misplaced the spend of her legs after growing sepsis final year, she said every stand turned into once a “big fight”.

She thanked each person who donated, announcing “it be completely good.”

Mrs Richardson’s eldest son Gill, 74, turned into once cared for by the charity sooner than he died final October.

The colossal-colossal grandmother said she wanted to thank the charity for “the very best make stronger” her family received.

She space out to remove £1,000 for the charity, but donations to her JustGiving web page now total £16, 873 and the charity says with cash sent internal cards, the total is kind of £18,000.

She said: “After I started it I belief if I raised £1,000 I would invent very wisely, but I’m completely amazed how generous other folks had been.”

The centenarian shared a image of herself on her JustGiving web page as a 21-year-former in the Ladies folk’s Land Navy in 1941.

Mrs Richardson added: “The hassle would had been easy for me too, in as of late.”

Herriot Hospice Homecare presents home care in the communities in the Hambleton and Richmond areas.

Chief Govt Tony Collins said it turned into once a “excellent success”.

He said: “She has put all the pieces into it, real the sheer encouragement to the workers radiant they’re being supported on this kind, it be in actual fact put a smile on their faces.”

He said the charity wants about £1m a year to proceed the services and products it presents, and the cash would be spent “very properly”.

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