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Run - Connect - Protect.
Run - Connect - Protect.

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Extreme Psychiatry

01 Aug 2026 – 01 Aug 2045

Run - Connect - Protect.

We work for the Hastings & Rother Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT) in East Sussex as a Learning Disability Nurse (Hopkins) and a psychiatrist (Dr Strings). We support people with learning disabilities around lots of issues, and we're specialists in mental health.

Over the years, we've come firmly to believe that good mental health is about far more than medication. Exercise, connection, feeling valued and doing things you enjoy with friends and family all matter. Importantly, people need to roam - we can't stay cooped up inside all day! Time in the natural world can make a real difference to how we feel.

There is a lot to feel overwhelmed by at the moment. Living costs are high, local support is under pressure, and many people feel isolated or lonely. Then there is climate change, pollution and the loss of green spaces. It is easy to feel small beside problems that seem so enormous.

On a run one evening we decided we were fed up of feeling overwhelmed and needed to do something instead. Something big.

Extreme Psychiatry takes good mental health out of the clinic and into the big, wide world. We're aiming to raise £1 million for charities that support local connection and protect the natural world.

We're going to race until we retire in 2045. Nineteen years is long enough to cover an alarming number of miles, but the routes are virtual so we can still turn up to work without a mountainous backlog of appointments and paperwork.

- Dr Strings is running right around the world - Team Earth.
- Hopkins is building a volunteer team to run to the Moon and back - Team Moon.

It's the longest race in the solar system - and we'd love you to join us:
- Donate to support our charities
- Follow Team Earth from the comfort of your sofa
- Or Join Team Moon, contributing as many miles as you can run, walk or whizz in a wheelchair.

Explore the campaign

Fundraisers

Supporting

World Land Trust
World Land Trust

Environment & Conservation | 1001291

25%

Since its foundation in 1989, World Land Trust has funded partner organisations around the world to create reserves and give permanent protection to habitats and wildlife.

The Woodland Trust
The Woodland Trust

Environment & Conservation | 294344

15%

We want to see a UK rich in native woods and trees. For wildlife. For people. Help us plant trees, protect woods and inspire people.

Hastings And Bexhill Mencap Society
Hastings And Bexhill Mencap Society

Community | 1092206

10%

To provide services for people with learning disabilities, their families and carers in the local area. This is achieved through residential care, day service, education through the arts, social activities, and outings.

Bexhill Gateway Club
Bexhill Gateway Club

Human Rights, Equality & Inclusion | 1057591

10%

The charity mission of the Bexhill Gateway Club is to relieve people with a learning disability by providing social, recreational, and leisure facilities. They focus on helping members build life and social skills while offering vital support for their families, dependants, and carers.

Project Art Works
Project Art Works

Community | 1104301

10%

Project Art Works is a unique visual art organisation that creates opportunities with and for young people and adults who have complex needs to engage with the world and express themselves through art. Project Art Works is based in Hastings, East Sussex and runs a range of projects, programmes and exhibitions that have a national reach.

Parchment Trust
Parchment Trust

Human Rights, Equality & Inclusion | 1081148

10%

The Parchment Trust charity's mission is to work together for better lives by supporting disabled adults to flourish, build independence, and equal human dignity. Founded in 1993, it operates in Hastings, East Sussex, as a major day-service provider.

Little Gate Farm
Little Gate Farm

Human Rights, Equality & Inclusion | 1153584

10%

Little Gate is a charity providing a skills and training program for learning disabled & Autistic adults and young people who want to go into paid work through supported employment. We also provide respite through our holiday club for children with learning disabilities and difficulties.

Boathouse Theatre Arts
Boathouse Theatre Arts

Human Rights, Equality & Inclusion | 1156740

10%

Boathouse Theatre Arts provides specialist performing arts projects for children and young adults who have a learning and/or physical disability. Boathouse runs three groups: Boathouse for Children (aged 5-15); Boathouse Theatre Company (young adults); and a Sensory group for adults who have profound and multiple disabilities. Boathouse is based in Hastings and Bexhill.

Supporters

2

10 across all pages

Donated to this page

£ 100.00

Strava Challenge

Distance CHALLENGE

46 / 502,604 miles

Challenge runs until 1 Aug. 2045
13 activities
13.43 hours
85,563 steps
45.87 mi

Summary

Total Raised

£550.00

Gift Aid

+£102.50

0%

£550.00

+ £102.50 Gift Aid

£1,000,000 target | 13 fundraisers

Charities Supporting

World Land Trust
25%
The Woodland Trust
15%
Hastings And Bexhill Mencap Society
10%
Bexhill Gateway Club
10%
Project Art Works
10%
Parchment Trust
10%
Little Gate Farm
10%
Boathouse Theatre Arts
10%