Covid lockdown took away people’s freedom and their ability to live a normal life, it made youngsters Danny and Connor Higgins think about other children who weren’t as lucky as they were, who had faced restrictions for far longer.
Telling their mum at the start of this year that they had made a New Year’s resolution to raise money for a charity supporting children, she began finding the details of different charities they could support.
As soon as she told them about Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity, they stopped her and said: “That’s the one. ”Danny, 10 and Connor, eight, of Ashford, Kent, then excitedly began coming up with so many varied fundraising ideas that their mum Emma Higgins said: “It’s going to take you a year to do all of.