Odyssey is a charity which enhances the quality of life for people with cancer through imaginative programmes of challenging and dramatic activities using the outdoors, and for one Paddock Wood Mason it provided a means of helping his wife through a very difficult time.

WBro Clive Luxford of the Stanley Wykeham Lodge No.6599 picks up the story. “After my wife Lindy was diagnosed with cancer, one of the things I felt was an inability to help. I watched as the Odyssey experience challenged her to restore belief in herself and gave her the courage to face the future”. To join in the spirit of the outdoor challenge, Clive signed himself up for an exhausting 8 day trek across the Sahara desert, during which he raised £2,800 for the charity. “By doing the trek I felt that I was doing something useful to help those who are helping others”.

From Ed44, P10