COCO is an international children’s charity based in Newcastle upon Tyne. COCO works with communities in remote regions overseas to alleviate the poverty preventing children’s education. COCO stands for Comrades of Children Overseas, a name taken from the famous Comrades Marathon in South Africa which both our Co-Founders (Steve Cram MBE and Jim Panton) ran back in 1999. They both realised the impact fundraising could have on the lives of people blighted by poverty and believed that education provided the answer to overcoming poverty. From here COCO was born.
Like many charities across the UK, Covid-19 has impacted on our fundraising activities. We have launched the COCO Million Steps challenge so our supporters can join friends anywhere in the UK, take a challenge that can has health and wellbeing benefits and help raise funds to support the crucial work that our partners do.
All charities are struggling at the moment. COCO is my favourite charity so I\\\'m happy to support them when I can. This challenge will spur me on to walk to work more in the coming months rather than taking the car!
"Well done Louise, hopefully lots more steps in 2021, maybe even some at goodgym runs!"
Abi and Nick
Anonymous
"Well done on getting your million steps done xx"
Julie owens
"Well done Louise!"
Lauren Hails
"Congratulations! "
Garry Martin
"WELL DONE"
mark
"Well done Louise "
Claire
"Well done xx"
Michelle Hilling
"Steve says you can have the ?99980 when he wins the lottery! Xx"
Lalage Brown
"Amazing achievement Lou. Smashed it!"
Chris & Donna
Anonymous
"You?re smashing this!"
Rachel McCracken
"All the best x"
Thembelihle Teni
Anonymous
"I\'m sure you\'ll smash the million target!"
Suzanne Macey
"Good luck "
John Hughes
"You really have got this already, but \'Good Luck\' anyway!! And COCO is such a worthy cause xx "
Anonymous
"Best of luck Louise, fantastic challenge for a very worthy cause. X"
Lauren
Anonymous
"good luck!"
gina falcus
Ashleigh Draper
"Good Luck Louise and well done!"
Beth Harrison
Andrew Robson
"I was led to believe you did like a million steps a day. So not a challenge really. But I\'ll still donate given it\'s a worthwhile cause!!!"
Katherine
"Good luck Louise :) "
Rachel Clarke
"Best of luck Louise, you\'ll smash it!!! x"
Tracy Finlay
"Good luck Louise :)"
Daniella Herbertz
"Well done Louise. Such a worthwhile cause!"
Furhana
"Hope you get great support "
Kenneth Golightly
Anonymous
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Anonymous
"Thank you for taking the challenge for COCO! Good luck with your challenge!"
Ranjit Ghoshal
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