As far as I am concerned, Ashley and his family are simply being paid to undertake what is essentially a leisure holiday at this point. If anyone has anything had a charity place in someone, we all know it is expensive and rightly so. If you take the London Marathon, where there really are limited overheads as the charity isn’t running the event, the average minimum sponsor is around 2k. If you take David Walliams swimming the Thames, I may not like him but he did it the right way. The massive expense of ten trip was paid for by sponsors/documentary, he was constantly plugging the go fund me and raised millions, and you see him being driven back to basic hotel room, looking genuinely broken, not a bit of chocolate milk dramatically throw up at the roadside.
I would also point out to Ashely that he quite obviously hasn’t taken this trip seriously as no one training for an event like this leaves anything to chance I.e. they won’t eat, drink or do anything different from training in the hopes of avoiding S&D so he has either been very unlucky or has just winged the whole thing. I know want my money is on.
We don’t need awareness in and of itself for any illness or cause. We need that awareness spreading alongside money being spent on actual research, treatments etc. If all Ashley is doing is repeating the story and running around the country on expensive Sportifs, what exactly is this achieving? Where is this money being spent?