Army veteran Captain Tom Moore finishes walking challenge with £12 million raised for NHS

He is the biggest ever fundraiser on JustGiving.

Captain Tom Moore has completed his challenge

Army veteran Captain Tom Moore has successfully completed his aim of walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday to raise money for the NHS.

Captain Moore completed his final 25 metre lap this morning, as his JustGiving fundraiser climbed to over £12 million from an initial £1,000 target.

“I feel fine, I’m surrounded by the right sort of people,” Captain Moore said as he crossed the finish line.

Captain Moore finished the walk in his Bedfordshire garden in front of family members and soldiers from the Yorkshire Regiment, the modern-day equivalent of the regiment he served with in WWII.

“It’s an honour and a privilege for us to be here to support Tom,“ said Major Ian Atkins.

“We see Tom very much as a member of the regimental family.”

After finishing his challenge Captain Moore sat down to watch a video compiled by the BBC of people around the country congratulating him on his effots.

The 99-year-old has raised over £12 million for NHS charities together, a collection of official charities supporting the NHS.

He is the biggest-ever fundraiser for the site, a title previously held by Stephen Sutton MBE, teen blogger and activist who fundraised for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Mr Sutton, who died in 2014, raised more than £5 million and was posthumously honoured by the Queen.

His mother Jane sent her congratulations to Captain Moore, adding that the baton ‘could not have been passed to a more worthy individual.”

Captain Moore was born in Yorkshire, and enlisted in the Army at the beginning of WWII. He later served in India and Indonesia, and returned as an instructor at Bovington Garrison in Dorset.