Bridgnorth School Prepares To Take On The Popular Bridgnorth Walk!

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00:00 Right then, who have we got here? Dominique, Zachary, Alice and I'm Hayley.

00:09 And you're all taking part in the British North Water this year. Tell us about it, how are you feeling?

00:13 Excited, a bit nervous, it's quite a long way isn't it? But we're really excited and really

00:22 grateful that the school and Booker are supporting JJRF in support of Zachary and Alice.

00:29 Absolutely, just tell us a little bit more about JJRF.

00:32 It's the Junior Diabetes Research Foundation and they work to making lives of people with

00:43 type 1 diabetes better, so improving people's lives and they champion things like getting

00:52 research into making technology which makes our lives easier. So I'm not explaining it very well.

00:58 No you are, no that's good. So you're alright in saying that Zach and Alice are...

01:01 They have type 1 diabetes, yeah.

01:03 And how long have they had type 1?

01:07 I've had it for five years, just over.

01:11 And Alice got diagnosed in December last year, so she turned three in October, so she'd just

01:19 turned three and it was a big shock, it's not something that we're expecting and the same for

01:23 Zachary wasn't it, it was a big shock, it's not something that you expect to happen. But yeah,

01:28 we've been very lucky that we've had a lot of support, a lot of support from school, a lot of

01:33 support from lots of friends and family and things as well, so we're lucky that we've got these guys

01:37 helping us out as well. And you've been fantastic haven't you? You've been really brave haven't you?

01:44 And Alice has just recently had a pump fitted, so that's made things a lot easier hasn't it?

01:52 Yeah and yeah, we're just going along with it.

01:56 Now have you done much training for the walk?

01:58 Err, no.

02:00 Do you know how many are taking part from here at Castlefields?

02:05 It's about 60 I think isn't it? 60 of the team, yeah quite a few.

02:10 Well you've certainly looked the part, so I'll look out for you on the Monday then.

02:15 Thank you so much.

02:15 Are you going to walk Alice?

02:17 Yeah.

02:19 Good girl.

02:20 So Tim and Carrie from Bookers, obviously you only recently joined Bridge North about six

02:24 months ago, how have you settled in?

02:26 Really well actually, I mean it's really nice to be sort of marking that with this type of

02:33 community event.

02:34 Absolutely, obviously you are sponsoring the school with their t-shirts for the walk this year,

02:38 that's quite a big achievement, there's a lot of t-shirts there I've seen.

02:41 Yeah we're really pleased with how they've turned out and it's just nice to be asked to support

02:48 both the school and such a good cause as well, so wishing everybody who's walking on Monday

02:53 the very best of luck and hopefully we can join you next year.