Community Children’s Matron’s Fundraising Challenge 12 in 12 – an update
27 August 2025
The QICN’s Community Children’s Nursing Project Lead and #ExtraordinaryQN, Rebecca Daniels, launched a ’12 in 12′ fundraising campaign in January this year.
Rebecca has been taking part in a fundraising activity every month so far to raise money for the QICN’s Support for Nurses programme, see below for her journey so far. Please visit her Just Giving page here.
The Support for Nurses programme provides invaluable assistance for the nursing profession:
- Financial support for nurses in times of life crises, such as domestic abuse and significant physical and mental ill health
- A Keep In Touch scheme, which connects retired nurses with a Queen’s Nurse volunteer for regular phone calls
- Grants responding to current circumstances including flood and storm grants.
The QICN has been an incredible support for the Community Children's Nurses network and enabled us to make significant changes in community children's nursing.
As a charity, the QICN has an incredible national influence and its Support for Nurses programme is a lifeline for both current and retired nurses. This fundraising challenge is about raising essential money and awareness for Support for Nurses, so we can continue to emotionally and financially support nurses that reach out to us.
Together we can continue to support our amazing community nursing workforce to keep going, stay well and improve the lives of our community across the lifespan.
Rebecca Daniels, QNFull list of 2025 challenges
January: London Winter Walk – half marathon – 25/1/25
February: 10,000 steps every day or 30 mins exercise every day
March: 3,100 Squats or 100 Squats a day
April: London Landmarks Half Marathon – 6/4/25 (for ELFT Charity) and TCS London Marathon – 27/4/25 – 26.2 miles local YourWay
May: National Nurses Day Park Run/Walk – plus Hackney Half Marathon – 18/5/25
June: Swim in the #RoyalDocksSwimSeries, 1km in open water
July: Focus on wellbeing, with daily mile challenge (as well as recovery from shoulder operation)
August: London Summer Walk (25km) – 23/8/25
September: Serpentine Swim – provisional date 20/9/25
October: Royal Parks Half Marathon – 12/10/25
November: TBC
December: Shelter’s Walk for Home and Santa Run in any location
Rebecca is encouraging friends, family, colleagues, community children’s nurses and Queen’s Nurses across the UK to join in the challenge. Whether you join Becks for one event or those from September onwards, participants will be joined by a group of supportive, like-minded individuals passionate about raising money to support community nurses. Those wishing to participate but unable to attend on the day, are invited to take part in their local area and donate their registration fee.
To help Rebecca achieve and exceed her £3,500 fundraising target, and to send those taking part messages of support, please visit her Just Giving page here. If you’d like to find out more about how you can get involved, please contact us at mail@qni.org.uk.
About Rebecca Daniels QN
Rebecca qualified as a paediatric nurse in 1999.
She has been working within Community Children’s Nursing (CCN) services in East London since 2006 in various CCN roles and is currently a Community Children’s Matron. She is passionate about ensuring babies, children and young people (BCYP) with health needs can remain at home and integrated into their community alongside their peers, with the right community nursing support in place.
She is also passionate about teaching, leadership and quality improvement. She recently qualified as a professional nurse advocate (PNA), enabling her to provide essential restorative supervision within the workforce.
She became a Queen’s Nurse in 2020 and is a core founding member of the UK-wide online CCN forum which is supporting CCNs across the UK to develop guidance, share knowledge and experiences, connecting via online platform.
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