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Van-tastic!

SARAH GRAHAM WAS LISTENING to a podcast with the brilliant Background Bob earlier this year. For those unaware, Background Bob is the 15-year-old Noah, who has cerebral palsy along with other conditions, and his dad, Nathan Jones. During lockdown, they started painting abstract backgrounds on cardboard and sent them to some artists they knew to paint over. It has since grown to over 750 artists, including Grayson Perry and Ed Sheeran. So far, they have raised an amazing £160,000 for their local children’s ward at the Colchester Hospital.

Feeling inspired by this, Sarah wondered what she could do to raise money for a charity close to her heart.

The Samaritans are a society she has heavily relied

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