A 13-year-old boy who spent three years camping in his garden to raise money for a local hospice has set a Guinness World Record for the biggest sum raised by camping.
Max Woosey has raised £700,000 for the North Devon Hospice since he first pitched his tent in March 2020 with the aim of raising £100. He has not slept indoors since but will finally return to his bedroom after his final camp out tonight (Wednesday March 29). The public are invited to join him camping for Max’s Final Camp Out festival on Saturday night at Broomhill Estate in Devon.
His efforts allowed the hospice to provide 15 community nurses for an entire year, enough to help 500 patients get care in their own homes. Max’s adventure began at the start of the first lockdown when he was just 10 years old after his neighbour Rick Abbot gave him a tent with strict instructions to ‘have an adventure’.
