YOUNG cyclist Josh Garman has been coining in the cash and raising smiles on a 600-mile ride across the south of England which stopped off in Wellington on Sunday.
He was inspired to get on his bike by Major Chris Brannigan, who completed a 700-mile walk in his bare feet from Land’s End to Edinburgh for the cause – Chris’s daughter Hasti, eight, has the life-limiting disease.
Josh has been carrying a stuffed toy ET on his mountain bike as a conversation starter to spread the word about the charity on his journey, which began from his home and headed to Dover and will have passed through Southampton, Bournemouth, Exeter and Plymouth among other stop-offs before arriving at Land’s End on Sunday.
He has been cycling alone and unsupported, and is carrying a one-man tent, although thanks to the kindness of strangers he has been put up overnight in homes several times along the way