Captain Sir Tom Moore launches new campaign to help the ‘lonely and frightened’ during new lockdown

Captain Sir Tom Moore has launched a brand new campaign to get people walking, to help those who feel ‘lonely and frightened’ throughout the latest lockdown. 

Earlier this year the war veteran raised £33m for NHS charities, by walking 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden before he celebrated his 100th birthday.

Captain Sir Tom put an absolute shift in during the first lockdown, and he managed to win the hearts of the nation with his charity walk.

His feat saw him knighted by the Queen, release an autobiography, and confirm a film is to be made about his life. 

Captain Sir Tom said: “We are in a difficult situation but we’ll get through it if we all join together.”

His latest challenge encourages people to log their walking on social media with the hashtag #WalkWithTom over the next week.

He’s hoping to raise money for his foundation which aims to combat loneliness and support those who face bereavement.

Capt Sir Tom said: “We’ve got to consider that during this next coming period there are going to be a lot of unhappy people who are lonely and frightened and we need to go out and help those people.

“That’s why we’ve got the Captain Tom Foundation.”

The Foundation works with the mental health charity Mind, The Royal British Legion, Helen and Douglas House children’s hospice in Oxfordshire, and Willen Hospice in Milton Keynes.

Capt Sir Tom’s daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore said the family has been ‘given an incredible gift of a voice and platform to do powerfully positive things with’.

She added that ‘we are British and we can get through this’, before adding: “We would like everyone to walk together with Tom so we can help support those who are lonely”.