Pete's Story

Pete Windridge-France aims to swim the channel to raise money for Penny Fields in Leeds, the special needs school that his son Archie attends. Archie is 7 years old and has global developmental delay which means that he is mentally about 10 months old, and so can't walk or talk.

I am seeing Pete to coach him on "state control" using my Provocative Change Works™ approach for this enterprise and he is keeping a video diary of the results. For further details on this approach take a look at my Sports Performance Coaching page.

For more details on Pete and his progress you can visit his blog at peteswims.com.

Swimming to shore

Saturday 23rd July 2011

In the water

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Reflections from The Lake District

Friday 22nd July 2011

Pre swin reflections

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Pete talks about the benefits of the voice tempo exercise

Monday 18th July 2011

The latest update from Pete

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Observations from the Beach and how to contribute

Friday 15th July 2011

Loads of people have asked how to donate to Archie’s school.

Go http://www.justgiving.com/peteswims and you can donate directly to the Friends of Penny Field (the registered charity for funding Penny Field school)

All your donation GOES STRAIGHT TO THE SCHOOL.

Nothing is taken out for the costs of my channel swim.

Every single penny gets very wisely spent on walking frames, sensory equipment (to get their brain synapses firing up!), assisted days out to place that are otherwise inaccessible to disabled kids. You name it!

But it ALL goes to the school. In fact, if you tick the “Gift Aid” box on justgiving, the government automatically add at least 20% to your donation!

Whatever you give, know that it is appreciated and that you have just done something wonderful that will directly benefit a disabled little kid in the days to come!

Pete

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