Charity Champion or Volunteer of the Year nominee – Adam Whitehouse

Charity Champion or Volunteer of the Year nominee – Adam Whitehouse

Adam Whitehouse ran 100km on Stoke-on-Trent’s Centenary Day to raise money for the Dougie Mac – and has vowed to run 100km every month until he has raised the £56,000 needed to keep the hospice operating for one day.

His fundraising total currently stands at around £14,000, including pledges from businesses that joined him along the route which took in all six Stoke-on-Trent towns and Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Adam, the founder of Newcastle-under-Lyme based TMT First, took almost 14 hours to complete his ultra marathon.

He said: “I’d never run more than a marathon before. I knew it would be hard but it was for a good cause.

“I want to raise enough to keep the Dougie Mac open for one day. There isn’t another organisation in this area that supports so many people. Until you need them you just don’t know how valuable they are.

“I was born in the same year as the Dougie Mac first opened and I’ve experienced lots of people having to use its services. It’s just an amazing place and it works with young people as well as adults now too.

“Running 100Kkm was inspired by our city being 100 this year and I’m going to keep doing 100km per month.”

Adam has been nominated in the Charity Champion or Volunteer of the Year category of the Your Heroes Awards.

He said: “I’m surprised to have been nominated. I definitely don’t do it for the press. I’m doing it to raise awareness for the Dougie Mac, but it’s very nice that somebody has recognised the fundraising.

“There are so many people in our city that do amazing things and there are so many businesses and business people that support the work of the Dougie Mac.

“Local businesses have raised more than £1 million for the Dougie Mac and it’s great that we can be part of that and show other businesses and business people that they can do something to help. It’s amazing what the people of Stoke-on-Trent do for the Dougie Mac.”