When cashflows meet pedalos...

You know when you go on your holidays for a well-earned break, and you end up helping to repair the side of someone’s house to protect them before a hurricane hits?

No, didn’t think so.

But that’s exactly what happened to me some 20 years ago over on a family holiday in Washington DC.

With a hurricane threatening to dampen down any hedonism, in wanting to help my family baton down the hatches (a phrase I’d truly never given much thought to until the day I found myself baton-ing), I saw myself climbing (stupidly unsupported) up a ladder to secure some above height ‘hatches’. With me at 10 feet off the ground, the ladder slipped, and in taking me down with it, it broke my right arm, my foot, and completely shattered my left elbow.

The catastrophe saw me undergoing four painstaking hours of surgery whilst in Washington, and a few more stays under-the-knife once we got back at home to the UK. The prognosis was that I would have to accept that I’d never get the full use of my arm back ever again.

This isn’t a triumph over adversity story, by the way, because that message remains factual – I will indeed never get full use of my arm back. So why am I telling you this story?

Following my surgery, I spent four months, Monday to Friday, in the excellent Wessex Rehabilitation Centre (part of Salisbury District Hospital), undergoing intensive Physiotherapy. Thanks to their care and patience as much as their skill and expertise, I walked away from my treatment (looking a little like Lord Nelson, but without the funny hat) with a 30% range of movement in the arm that had looked 100% useless just a few months before.

A few years later, when I was better healed in terms of my physical health and the trauma I’d suffered, I decided I wanted to raise money for the Centre to thank them and to do something that would raise some valuable funds for their life-changing work. I’m not much of a marathon man, and as for jumping out of planes, I’d rather not do anything ‘at height’ again, thanks very much. So, I settled on the next best (if not entirely obvious) method of raising some cash. I set about borrowing a giant duck-shaped pedalo, and made plans to sail to The Isle of Wight across The Solent – AKA, the UK’s busiest shipping lane.

World Renowned Sailor, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, said it couldn’t be done. He probably had a point, but I did it anyway, and raised some great cash for a great cause. I also got a cool new nickname in the process – The Pedalo King of Wiltshire. And you thought Mike Boss was already the best name ever…

Now, I’ve already got plans to re-float the duck at some point in the name of charity but in the meantime, I’m wanting to do something a little more formal and a little less theatrical to raise some funds for the Wessex Rehabilitation Centre.

For the remainder of 2023, not content with just saving my clients money on Asset Finance deals for goods used for/in their businesses, I’m going to be donating £50 for every new client that signs up with me in the hope of finding the best finance deals to protect their cashflow. Everyone benefits, and it gives the duck a bit of a rest.

This offer will run until the end of 2023, by which point, it’ll be time to get the duck back out on the road. Or water, ideally.

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Don’t duck out of a great deal.