Girl completes 93-mile swim problem for Peterborough’s Nene Park

A 57-year-old lady has accomplished a 93-mile swimming problem to boost funds for charity.

Shân Barcroft from Peterborough set herself the problem and accomplished it over three months to boost practically £1,300 for Nene Park Trust, the place she works as a fundraising officer.

Ms Barcroft, who can be a professional nurse, stated the swimming distance represented the 930 hectares of inexperienced area and blue area that made up Ferry Meadows and Nene Park.

She stated she needed to spotlight the problems going through the atmosphere and the necessity to defend inexperienced areas, in addition to promote the work Nene Park does.

Ms Barcroft stated she swam a mile a day, primarily within the metropolis’s artwork deco lido, in addition to having fun with open water swimming at Ferry Meadows as a part of her problem.

The mum-of-two stated: “I was going to complete my swim last weekend by swimming between the old pier and the new pier in Brighton, but unfortunately there had been a big sewage spill into the sea and there was no swimming allowed, which probably illustrates even more the need to protect our blue spaces.

“But I’ve actually loved it. I’m 57, I took it fairly slowly however made a lot of associates, met heaps of people that wish to help inexperienced areas and blue areas in Peterborough and had enjoyable and it clearly has actually good psychological well being advantages.”

Ms Barcroft said she hoped to inspire more people to fundraise for the trust that maintains the park and runs activities and programmes, including the Peterborough Celebrates festival.

“Ferry Meadows is a pure flood plain, so virtually yearly now it floods, and really the implications of which might be that we now have to restore the harm afterwards and issues like that,” she stated.

She said she had amazing support from her colleagues and family and hoped to do more campaigns in the future.

“My children stated I seemed like Pamela Anderson from Baywatch operating into the ocean. I hope she [Anderson] sees this and provides me a shout out”, Ms Barcroft said.

Senior fundraising officer Lucy Thornton-Reid, from Nene Park Trust, said: “Not solely has it been inspiring to see Shân tackle this problem, however the funds raised assist in direction of ensuring greenspace in Peterborough is right here for everybody to get pleasure from and profit from, endlessly – which is fairly unimaginable.”