A WORTHING hospice is to benefit from a woman undertaking the challenge of a lifetime when she embarks on a trek through the Himalayas in India

Littlehampton resident Chloe Dayneswood will be raising money for St Barnabas House which is based in Titnore Lane.

The trek, which will take place on October 18-28, will see a team of 50 trekkers journey through the spiritual heart of Northern India, home to the Dalai Lama and the centre of the Tibetan community in the foothills of the Himalayas.

Chloe has very personal reason for taking on the trek for St Barnabas House as her late husband Ben Millard was cared for by the hospice at the end of his life.

She said: “Since Ben passed away I have been looking for a purpose; something to make me get up in the morning and a goal to work towards.

“I saw the trek advertised and thought it would tick a few boxes for me.

“The training and fundraising will occupy my time and the trip will get me to focus on a time beyond today, which is still so difficult after Ben passed away.”

Ben, who lived in Crawley until he moved to Littlehampton with Chloe, who grew up locally in Worthing, was diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer in July 2016.

He was assigned a MacMillan nurse who referred him to St Barnabas House and just a few days later he was admitted to the hospice’s In-patient Unit.

Chloe said: “We came to St Barnabas on the Friday and Suzanne Ford-Dunn, one of the Medical Consultants, confirmed that the cancer was completely in one of his kidneys (as well as his stomach, bowel and lymph nodes) and starting to go into the other one.

“We expected to be there for the weekend, and then we had that devastating news. We didn’t leave. We were there until 14 August when Ben passed away Ben fought until the end.”