Sophie’s 4-hour HIIT challenge raises £4,215 for the hospice who cared for her mother Art teacher and mum of three, Sophie Garwood, has completed the ultimate HIIT fundraising challenge with a gruelling 4-hour high-intensity workout in memory of her mother, Rosie Garwood. Streaming live from her lounge in Shoreham-by-Sea on Saturday 16 May, Sophie was joined online by over one hundred friends, family members and onlookers from around the world, many of who took part in the fitness session and made a donation to St Barnabas House.
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The event was held on what would have been her mother’s 66th birthday weekend and an incredible £4,215 was raised for the hospice who cared for Rosie during her short battle with cancer.
Having suffered from pains in her side, which were initially put down to IBS, Rosie was diagnosed with an aggressive form of neuroendocrine cancer in December 2019. When she and her family were told that the cancer had spread from her bowel to her liver and no further treatment was available, Sophie says it “came as a massive shock”. “My lovely mother was only 65 when she died very suddenly on 15 January 2020. It literally felt like the world fell apart. She was a wonderfully talented, intelligent and kind woman
