Blogger drums up international support for Marsh charity Joseph Salmon Trust

May 8 2010 by Sam Casey, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Some of the Hadrian's Wall walkers for the Joseph Salmon Trust, from left, Les Wood, Richard Brook, David Graham, Dan Hughes, Bill Marsh, Craig Kelly, Elise Rohde

A BLOGGER has drummed up international support for a Huddersfield charity.

Dan Hughes, from Slaithwaite, used the power of the web to support the Joseph Salmon Trust.

The Marsh charity was started in 2008 by Dan’s friends Rachael and Neil Salmon, who lost their three-year-old son to pneumonia in 2005.

It provides financial help for parents who have lost children to cover funeral and related costs.

Dad-of-two Dan, 34, invited readers of his blog www.allthatcomeswithit.com – his thoughts on family life – to join him for an 84-mile walk along Hadrian’s Wall in aid of the trust.

But the positive response he got took him by surprise.

“I was hoping that one or two people would be interested in coming along with me,” he said.

“But I had underestimated how much Neil and Rachael’s story had touched people, or how much they realised how important the trust’s work is.”

Sixty people from as far afield as the United States and Holland will now take part in the event in July.

It will be the latest in a series of fundraising events supported by Dan.

Two years ago, he raised more than £6,000 for the trust by walking the Dales Way footpath two years ago.

“We raised £1,000 from blogging alone,” he said.